Journal of Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
Open Access

Abstract

Trends in substance abuse

Evgeny M. Krupitsky

Drug abuse may be a constantly changing scene and services got to keep up and modify their strategies and methodologies directed by the available information from good oversight and stewardship, clinical assessments and various other diversified factors of relevance, besides recognizing resources accordingly. However, not all countries have an equivalent drug trend, hence, different countries don't have an equivalent clubbing culture and consequently different patterns of psychoactive drug use. Since its launch in 2002, the laboratory at the National Rehabilitation Centre, NRC, Abu Dhabi, UAE, has kept a comprehensive record of the contraband substances test results, of all the patients who sought treatment at the Centre for his or her alcohol and substance related disorders.