BOBES BASCARÁN, M.T., 2025. Beyond Drugs: The Rise of Behavioural Addictions and their Clinical Implications. Revista española de drogodependencias, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 5-15. ISSN 0213-7615.
Behavioural addictions have emerged as an increasing public health challenge, fuelled by digitalisation and instant gratification. Although they do not involve substance use, these compulsive behaviours share neurobiological mechanisms and clinical consequences with traditional addictions. This editorial discusses the key aspects of these addictions, their impact on diagnostic systems, clinical and research challenges, main vulnerability factors, assessment and intervention methods, policy regulations, and controversies surrounding their conceptualisation and approach. The implications of the generation gap in the treatment and understanding of these pathologies are also examined.
BOLIBAR, M. y PADROSA, E., 2024. Transiciones juveniles, precariedad y bienestar: un análisis de las formas y efectos de la precariedad en el bienestar emocional de las personas jóvenes. Anuario IET de trabajo y relaciones laborales, no. 10, pp. 6. ISSN 2339-5753.
This article addresses the labour, social, and economic factors affecting youth mental health. Specifically, it examines the effect of employment precarity on the emotional well-being of young people. We develop a typology of youth socioeconomic configurations applying Multiple Correspondence and Cluster Analysis to identify how employment precarity interacts with other social determinants of mental health, such as economic insecurity and the processes of emancipation and family transition, shaping realities that protect or hinder the emotional well-being of young people. The results show that adverse labour situations (both unfavourable employment conditions and unemployment or exclusion from the labour market) are associated with greater emotional distress among young people, especially when precarity becomes chronic in their work trajectory and if class position and family-residential strategies fail to prevent it from being accompanied by economic insecurity. The article concludes by emphasizing the need to intervene structurally in the realm of social rights and securities to improve youth mental health.
ROMO AVILÉS, N. and RAMÍREZ LÓPEZ, A., 2025. “About Women”: Reflecting on the Use of Hypnosedatives among Adolescents in Spain from a Gender Perspective.. Aposta: Revista de ciencias sociales, no. 105, ISSN 1696-7348.
Hypnosedatives are among the most important groups of drugs today, and they can be prescribed across various medical fields. Their spread and popularisation in recent decades have led to various forms of use by undiagnosed individuals facing stress, anxiety, or mood-related ‘ailments’ who engage in use beyond “medical supervision”. In Spain, all forms of use are more prevalent among women in different age groups. With a critical and gender perspective, we will reflect on the trends in the consumption of these drugs among younger populations, their connection to medicalisation processes, drug use stigmatisation and, above all, the impact that the gender system has on women throughout their lives, which leads them to choose legal trade and prescription drugs and to decide in terms of their gender mandates and structural inequalities. Our ultimate goal is to foster a critical and feminist discussion that highlights and explores the impact of this substance use on young women and, in turn, addresses the potential adverse effects they may suffer and emphasises the need for developing harm reduction policies tailored to women.
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