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Public Health Strategies to Prevent Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: CDC Grand Rounds
Public Health Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: The Talker in the Talking Route to Recovery
In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...
Can Drug Prevention Programmes Reduce Substance Use by Participants’ Friends?
Besides reducing substance use between its participants one prevention programme also reduced drug use among the friends of those who took part.
Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?
12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...
Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Substance Use Disorders
This guideline represents a significant step toward improving the treatment and management of patients with substance use disorders (SUD) in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD). As with other clinical...
XR-Naltrexone: A Step-by-Step Guide
The Providers' Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment (PCSS-MAT) experts have recently created a virtual step-by-step XR-Naltrexone User Guide to assist you in your practice in treating opioid use disorder (OUD). XR...
The Drug Problem in the Americas: Drugs and Public Health
Summary and Findings
Most people do not use illicit drugs and among those who try them, only a fraction will develop patterns of dependence. Still, drug use constitutes a serious health problem for many people in the Americas. Early age of...
Adfam’s Manifesto for Families: 5 Key Challenges for Supporting Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol Use
“You don’t have to use drugs to be affected by them.”
In 2010 Adfam identified five key challenges for families that the Government should address, identified by stakeholders across England. They were:
- Supporting families in their own...
Working with Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Due to Parental Substance Use
This guide offers advice and suggestions to support service providers to deliver effective services to grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren due to parental substance misuse. It draws heavily on the work of Adfam’s Grandparent...
Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence
This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were:
- To...
Validity and Reliability of the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in University Students
The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...
Real Voices in Volunteering
Adfam published this volunteering toolkit to provide all the information, policy, law and resources needed on volunteering, families and substance use.
Volunteers have always played an essential role in the family support and substance use...
Předávkování fentanylem - New Haven, Connecticut, 23. června 2016
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Co je již o tomto tématu známo?
Fentanyl a jeho analogy byly nahrazeny heroinem a jinými opioidy a jsou obvykle uváděny na trh osobám vyhledávajícím opiáty. Vzhledem k vysoké účinnosti fentanylu ve srovnání s heroinem, metadonem a...
Nové online školení pro praktiky, peer mentory a manažery služeb
Tato nová platforma umožňuje zneužívání návykových látek, probačním a vězeňským službám zvyšovat kvalifikaci svých pracovníků škálovatelným a konzistentním způsobem a optimalizovat využívání digitálního programu pro změnu chování Breaking...
Bezplatný zdroj pro hodnocení intervencí protidrogové prevence a léčby
Banka nástrojů pro hodnocení (EIB) je on-line databáze volně dostupných zdrojů pro hodnocení programů a iniciativ v oblasti protidrogové prevence a léčby . V archivu můžete vyhledávat podle typu intervence (léčba nebo prevence), podle typu...
Připravenost a překážky přijmout postupy založené na důkazech pro léčbu zneužívání návykových látek v Mexiku
Důkazy ukazují zpoždění při přijímání postupů založených na důkazech pro léčbu zneužívání návykových látek a podporují potřebu studovat faktory, které se podílejí na tomto celosvětovém problému.
Léčba závislosti na alkoholu s pozitivními vztahy
"Terapeutická aliance", nebo jinými slovy, pozitivní a důvěryhodný vztah mezi poradcem a pacientem, by podle nové studie mohla být klíčem k úspěšné léčbě závislosti na alkoholu. Pacienti, kteří hlásili pozitivnější vztah se svým poradcem...
EMCDDA Updates on Best Practice
A new European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Best Practice report will be published in early 2017. It will take an in-depth look at substance use prevention in Europe.
The report's stated aim is "not to rate...
New Online Resource on E-Cigarettes
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has recently launched an engaging online resource on e-cigarettes. The free resource aims to offer parents and caregivers easily accessible information about e-cigarettes and other...
Sada nástrojů pro řízení pod vlivem drog
Výzkum ukázal, že problém řízení pod vlivem drog se stal co do závažnosti srovnatelným s řízením pod vlivem alkoholu. S cílem informovat zaměstnance autoškoly a mladé řidiče o řízení pod vlivem drog vytvořilo Kanadské centrum pro...
