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substance use
DCHP-3 (May 2024)
n. & adj. — Healthcare, Urban culture
the use of illegal or unprescribed substances.
Type: 5. Frequency — In the North American context, Canada employs the non-discriminatory neologism substance use more frequent than the US, where the older term substance abuse is still the dominant form (see Chart 1). In the global context, however, other varieties predominantly employ the non-discriminatory term. The term is meant to help de-stigmatize substance users and frame their condition in the health system not in the criminal system. The model of reframing of undesirable conditions has been applied in Canadian English with the change from unemployment insurance to employment insurance.
The term is not listed in OED-3.
The term is not listed in OED-3.
See: employment insurance
Quotations
1977
"The social responsibility of the media to substance use and abuse is suspect," he said, saying that editorial material becomes "the filler around the advertisements."
1989
The commission is now in Toronto, beginning its examination of drug and illegal substance use by Canadian track athletes.
1992
While the impact of substance use is not highly visible or dramatic in the workplace, it shows up subtly in absenteeism or work slowdowns, according to AADAC`s survey.
1993
The criminality is not in the use of a chemical substance, but in making substance use a crime, and one that breeds many other crimes.
1994
"Anxiety disorders and affective disorders are more common in women, while substance-use disorders and antisocial behavior are more common in men," according to the report.
1995
Last Friday, Bowen asked the community to observe a 10:00 PM curfew. He asked Seneca members to put their guns always during the crisis and avoid alcohol or substance use.
1997
People with substance use problems include a wide range of people from corporate executives, to students, to unemployed people to one in four of our grandmothers. In short, people with these afflictions are our neighbors.
2000
A number of agencies will have representatives speaking about substance use in the community and assistance available for people trying to deal with those issues.
2022
Times Colonist B.C. Mental Health and Addictions Minister Sheila Malcolmson has announced 33 new and expanded substance-use programs for youth supported by about 130 new health-care workers.
References
- OED-3
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