Published on in Vol 10 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/46678, first published .
Optimizing Digital Tools for the Field of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders: Backcasting Exercise

Optimizing Digital Tools for the Field of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders: Backcasting Exercise

Optimizing Digital Tools for the Field of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders: Backcasting Exercise

Florian Scheibein   1 , MSc ;   Elsa Caballeria   2 , MSc ;   Md Abu Taher   3 , MSS, MGS ;   Sidharth Arya   4 , MD ;   Angus Bancroft   5 , MA (Hons), PhD ;   Lisa Dannatt   6 , MBChB, DMH (SA), MMed Psych ;   Charlotte De Kock   7 , MA, PhD ;   Nazish Idrees Chaudhary   8 , PhD ;   Roberto Perez Gayo   9 , MA ;   Abhishek Ghosh   10 , MD, DM ;   Lillian Gelberg   11 , MD, MSPH ;   Cees Goos   12 , PhD ;   Rebecca Gordon   2 , MSc ;   Antoni Gual   2 , MD, PhD ;   Penelope Hill   13, 14, 15 , PhD ;   Iga Jeziorska   9, 16 , MA, MSc, PhD ;   Eliza Kurcevič   17 , LL.M ;   Aleksey Lakhov   18 , MA ;   Ishwor Maharjan   19 , MA ;   Silvia Matrai   2 , MSc ;   Nirvana Morgan   20 , MD, PhD ;   Ilias Paraskevopoulos   21 , MSc. ;   Zrinka Puharić   22 , PhD ;   Goodman Sibeko   6 , MBChB, PhD ;   Jan Stola   23 , BA ;   Marcela Tiburcio   24 , PhD ;   Joseph Tay Wee Teck   25 , MB BCh BAO, MSc ;   Zaza Tsereteli   26 , MD, MPH ;   Hugo López-Pelayo   2 , MD, PhD

1 School of Health Sciences, South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland

2 Health and Addictions Research Group, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Dhaka, Bangladesh

4 Institute of Mental Health, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India

5 School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

6 Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

7 Institute for Social Drug Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

8 International Grace Rehab, Lahore School of Behavioral Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

9 Correlation European Harm Reduction Network, Amsterdam, Netherlands

10 Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

11 Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

12 European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, Austria

13 The National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs, Randwick, Australia

14 The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia

15 National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Melbourne, Australia

16 Department of Public Policy, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

17 Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, Vilnius, Lithuania

18 Humanitarian Action Charitable Fund, St Petersburg, Russian Federation

19 Management Center Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

20 Network of Early Career Professionals in Addiction Medicine, Seligenstadt, Germany

21 Kethea Ithaki, Thessaloniki, Greece

22 Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health Osijek, Bjelovar University of Applied Sciences, Bjelovar, Croatia

23 Youth Organisations for Drug Action, Warsaw, Poland

24 Head of the Department of Social Sciences in Health, Directorate of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research, Mexico City, Mexico

25 DigitAS Project, Population and Behavioural Science, School of Medicine, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

26 Alcohol and Substance Use Expert Group, Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-Being, Tallinn, Estonia

Corresponding Author:

  • Elsa Caballeria, MSc
  • Health and Addictions Research Group
  • Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
  • University of Barcelona
  • Calle Rosselló, 149-153
  • Barcelona, 08036
  • Spain
  • Phone: 34 932275400 ext 4160
  • Email: caballeria@recerca.clinic.cat