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European Drug Report 2017
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Rostoucí problém: v celé Evropě nastupuje do protidrogové léčby závislosti na konopí stále více lidí
Nový výzkum publikovaný v časopise European Addiction Research vykresluje obraz služeb léčby problémů souvisejících s konopím v letech 2003 – 2014 ve 22 evropských zemích.
Zejména naznačuje, že celkově se během dotčeného období celkový...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment
Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...
Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances
‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...
For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment
For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...
Léčba poruchy užívání opiátů: Co se tam naučit?
Toto zneužívání opiátů na předpis je velkým problémem pro veřejné zdraví. Buprenorfin-naloxon (BUP-NX) se obvykle používá k léčbě poruch spojených s užíváním opiátů. Klinická studie drogy však zahrnovala především uživatele heroinu. ...
A Possible New Treatment for Alcohol Disorders?
New research published in the journal Biological Psychiartry points to a novel way for the treatment of alcoholism. This would look to reduce motivation for drinking instead of altering the effects of alcohol, itself. Indeed, the study...
Jak se vypořádáme s opiátovou epidemií?
Nadměrné předepisování opiátů je ve Spojených státech významným problémem veřejného zdraví. Například opiáty jsou často předepisovány zbytečně na drobná zranění. To zase zvyšuje riziko závislosti.
Nový výzkum prezentovaný na výroční...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?
A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...
Technologie a odvykání kouření: Jsou personalizované e-maily účinné pro potenciální odvykače?
Nová studie American Cancer Society publikovaná v časopise Tobacco Control naznačuje, že pravidelné přijímání personalizovaných e-mailů s tipy na odvykání kouření mimo jiné informace by mohlo být stejně účinné při snižování míry kouření...
Další procedury na palubě při poruše způsobené užíváním alkoholu
Třináct let uplynulo od doby, kdy americký Úřad pro kontrolu potravin a léčiv (FDA) naposledy schválil nový lék, který má pomoci milionům lidí s poruchou užívání alkoholu (AUD) zastavit nebo zmírnit jejich pití.
Existují pouze 3 takové...
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Non-medicínské užívání Ritalin: Studie vylepšená, ale s ohledem na šanci
Nový výzkum publikovaný v Journal of Neural Transmission zdůrazňuje řadu potenciálních nežádoucích vedlejších účinků z užívání stimulační drogy Ritalin bez lékařského předpisu. Ritalin (Methylfenidát) se lékařsky používá k léčbě poruchy...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community
The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...
Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids: A Free Online Training Course
A free online training course from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now available.
The course addresses the CDC recommendations with respect to the prescription of opioids for chronic pain as well as their treatment...
Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison.
Analysed textually and pictorially through...
State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and treatment...
ATTC White Paper: Preparing Students to Work in Integrated Health Care Systems
A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...
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