Talk:Polysubstance use

message: reference for aggression/ethanol/benzodiazapine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8410959  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.109.154.249 (talk) 12:58, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

message: I agree with the two commends below mine. The article should be title Polydrug use. Also, it's correct to say that the definition on the page is the secondary definition. If you read the medical literature, both from independent study and the US government, you'll see they use the term to describe users who frequently partake in multiple drugs, although not necessarily simulataneously.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.251.110 (talk) 20:39, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Another voice

message: Correct title should be "Polydrug use"
It's 2 words, not 3.
:I moved it to Polysubstance use to make it consistent with the article Polysubstance dependence. --Bawanio (talk) 19:36, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Article Name 

message: "Getting crunk" can also refer to merely drinking, so I don't think that's really accurate (in fact, that's the only way I've seen it used). I've removed that little parenthetical tidbit. aubrey 22:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Sometimes known as..."

message: Percocet and Pop Rocks (also known as "Tickling the Devil's Taint (Perineum)."
What the fuck?!
Miserlou 05:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percocet and Pop Rocks (also known as "Tickling the Devil's Taint (Perineum)." 

message: Deleted the entry for cannabis + nicotine, polydrug use is the combination of drugs "to achieve a particular effect", the use of tobacco in spliffs is not for psychoactive reasons but practical/efficiency reasons.
Deleted the comment about cannabis and ecstacy, amoung people that use both cannabis is used before during and/or after taking ecstacy.
Mountain Dew and instant coffee is NOT a poly drug combination (unless you count mixing caffeine and sugar / other minor psychoactives, in which case either drink on its own would be "poly drug use).  The primary active ingredient in both, and the only that most people would be conscious of, is caffeine.  That's no more a poly drug combination than combining dried cannabis buds and hashish.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.129.132.242 (talk) 21:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small changes 

message: What the hell? Is this a real term?
Ahubling 03:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallagher's Breakfast 

message: I've never heard of this term for a combo of LSD and nitrous, and neither has the internet, other than your page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.206.243.160 (talk) 05:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gasid" 

message: This could be useful  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phil Ian Manning (talk • contribs) 09:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table 

message: I think this is the reference required but I haven't found the original article yet:
Fountain, J., Griffiths, P., Farrell, M., Gossop, M. and Strang, J. (1999): 'Benzodiazepines in polydrug-using repertoires: the impact of the decreased availability of temazepam gel-filled capsules', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Vol. 6(1), pp. 61–692829  VC 07:56, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed 

message: Can you please revise the tables that I added? --Jilja (talk) 18:23, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable combinations 

message: Folks,
I'm new to Wikipedia and found my way here searching references to "polydrug" use. Allow me to offer few comments and questions about process and content, made with respect:
 
1) Several folks on this TALK page have mentioned that the correct term is the single word "polydrug". I concur. And I wonder how these changes happen? Despite the several comments about spelling, it seems no action has been taken (over several years?).
2) Should a new entry (page) be made with a correctly-spelled URL? And does that mean the old one - /Poly_drug_use - is retired? 
3) Content: A bigger issue is that the existing definition and examples seem to be primarily about intentional recreational drug use. Among professionals studying drug use and misuse, that's not where the discussion is at the present time (2018) which is unintentional polydrug use, especially it's connection to the opioid crisis. Moreover, it appears that the majority of comments in this TALK section are more than 10 years old. 
4) Back to process: If a new URL is created, does all this older "secondary definition" material get moved to a new page? Or, is this page kept active and linked to? 
5) Content: Is it at this point a more current, expanded definition can be developed? I think this is critical.
6) Regarding references, the citations here range from 1993-2011. My goodness! This is a growing body of research, with information coming from the U.S., Europe and Australia/New Zealand. Many more current citations are needed to do justice to this topic.
7) What to do? What to do? 
8) I'm willing to do some of this work but want to be clear about what's-what before I devote serious time to it.
9) Addendum: Regarding the table and list of "street names" and the comment here in TALK about it, shouldn't a list like that be it's own separate page/entry?
Thanks for listening.
Numd501 (talk) 15:56, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Just replying to your P.S, mostly for the benefit of future readers. The links were caused by another person inappropriately embedding formatted references into their posts above yours. I've just fixed the issue. Damien Linnane (talk) 22:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out-of-date info - What to do about it? 

message: Would you like to help me make this article a featured list? --Bawanio (talk) 15:13, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Bawanio. I'm happy to help work on it. Technically this isn't a list at the moment though. It's an article with a very large table. See Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists. I'm actually wondering if the article should be split in general though, since for starters the table takes up a disproportionate amount of space. An article on Poly-drug-use and a list titled something like 'List of recreational drug combinations' could be two separate things. I'd probably want some feedback on whether that's a good idea, and whether that list meets all the criteria to stand on its own. The first place I'd start would be asking at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists, and maybe contacting a couple of their high profile members and asking for comments at the discussion. Damien Linnane (talk) 21:54, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

text: If you want help it would also be worth emailing , who as you can see in the post above, expressed interest in improving this article quite some time ago. They're not active though, so use the 'Email this user' function in the sidebar to see if they'd still be interested. It's worth a shot. Damien Linnane (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  First I moved polydrug use to polysubstance use (see Talk:Polysubstance_use#Incorrect_Article_Name), then I moved the list to List of polysubstance combinations and clarified that "Polysubstance use may be used for entheogenic, or recreational purposes, with both legal and illegal substances." in both articles. Thanks. --Bawanio (talk) 20:49, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good choice; looks much better to me. Damien Linnane (talk) 01:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured list