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Treatment Settings
Various treatment formats, either in a live-in facility or through regular visits to a clinic, are designed for ongoing support, to help maintain recovery, and to prevent relapse.
Sex Differences in Cannabis Use Disorder Diagnosis Involved Hospitalizations in the United States
ABSTRACT
Objectives: The study examined sex differences in trend and clinical characteristics of cannabis use disorder (CUD) diagnosis involved hospitalizations among adult patients.
Methods: We analyzed hospitalization data from the 2007...
Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine
Purpose
The purpose of the Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine is to provide guidance about the effective use of drug testing in the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and promotion of recovery for patients...
Quality Measurers of Therapeutic Communities for Substance Dependence
Abstract
Background
In Latin America, substance related disorders are highly prevalent and one of the treatment strategies is the Therapeutic Communities (TCs), however, in Latin America there is scarce data about this treatment...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic: The ‘Forgotten’ Carers
One of our selection of hot topics on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Both as a treatment resource for the patient and a group needing support in their own right, families affected by substance use are, claimed a UK...
Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic: Does It Matter If Addiction Is a Brain Disease?
Seizing on the theory’s propaganda value, in 1997 the head of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse proclaimed, “Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters.” His contention has been hailed as a breakthrough or condemned as a...
Changes in Specific Substance Involvement Scores among SBIRT Recipients in an HIV Primary Care Setting
Abstract
Background
Substance use is common among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and is associated with worse outcomes along the HIV care continuum. One potentially effective clinic-based approach to addressing unhealthy substance use is...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: The Face of Drug Addiction Treatment
At the front line the practitioner is to the patient the face of addiction treatment. Key research shows they can matter enormously - not so much in their formal qualifications, but in their manner with the patients. Other times it seems a...
Delivery of Screening and Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Urban Academic Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract
Background
Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for unhealthy drinking has not been widely implemented in primary care partly due to reliance on physicians to perform it.
Methods
We implemented a model of nursing staff...
No Clear Role for Medications in Less Dependent Drinkers
In 2013 nalmefene was authorised for moderating drinking among patients not in need of detoxification, extending pharmacotherapy to less dependent drinkers. Though uniquely authorised for this purpose, this review found other (and probably...
Gambling Activates the Same Brain Pathways as Substance Addiction, New Study Finds
Problem gambling in the UK is reported to affect around 590,000 people.
The condition can be treated via a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication.
Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, a...
Ženy a užívání návykových látek
Abstraktní
Cíle: Prozkoumat kontextuální faktory, které zvyšují zranitelnost vůči negativním výsledkům v oblasti sexuálního a reprodukčního zdraví (SRH) a možné rozdíly v chování souvisejícím se sexuálním a reprodukčním zdravím a potřeby...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What Is Drug Addiction Treatment for?
The first matrix cell on treatment (as opposed to harm reduction) seems a good time to ask: What is treatment there to do? ‘Cure’ addiction, or promote meaningful and productive lives? Meet patients’ wishes, or aid the government’s welfare...
The Power and Price of Survival: Understanding Resilience, Stress, and Trauma
2nd Edition, 2011: A series of strength-based resources developed by Pamela Woll for the Great Lakes ATTC, to help prepare the civilian mental health and addiction treatment workforce to address post-deployment stress injuries. This series...
Seminář o drogové závislosti v Bangladéši
Dhaka Ahsania Mission Female Drug Treatment & Rehabilitation Center, International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) a Lion Club of Dhaka Oasis společně uspořádaly protidrogový seminář pro studenty a učitele...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix Row 1. First Task: Save Lives, Reduce Harm
Consolidates the lessons of the first five instalments of the online course on drug treatment research. The five cells in row 1 explored key research on reducing harm to the user as a result of their drug use. Prompted by HIV, from the...
Alkohol a rakovina: prohlášení Americké společnosti klinické onkologie
Abstraktní
Pití alkoholu je zavedeným rizikovým faktorem pro několik malignit a je potenciálně modifikovatelným rizikovým faktorem pro rakovinu. Výbor pro prevenci rakoviny Americké společnosti klinické onkologie (ASCO) se domnívá, že...
Exercise in the Treatment of Youth Substance Use Disorders: Review and Recommendations
SUMMARY
Substance use disorders are one of the most common and debilitating mental health conditions experienced by youth, and several well-established risk factors exist that contribute to the development and persistence of SUDs...
Measuring Improvement in Knowledge of Drug Policy Reforms Following a Police Education Program in Tijuana, Mexico
Abstract
Background
Mexico’s 2009 “narcomenudeo reform” decriminalized small amounts of drugs, shifting some drug law enforcement to the states and mandating drug treatment diversion instead of incarceration. Data from Tijuana suggested...
WHO Alcohol Brief Intervention Training Manual for Primary Care (2017)
Alcohol contributes significantly to the disease and mortality burden in the WHO European Region, and primary health care systems play an important role in reducing the impact of harmful alcohol use. Screening and brief interventions (SBIs)...
