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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.
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...
Opioids Linked to Increase in Cocaine-Related Overdose Deaths
Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...
Alcohol Use Disorders Webinar
The Progress in Mind Resource Centre held a one-hour webinar on alcohol use disorders. The webinar was delivered by Wim van den Brink, Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Amsterdam, and Steve Brinksman, GP and...
Školení peer pedagogů v Tihar Central Jail
SPYM zahájila vězeňský intervenční program mezi mládeží zneužívající drogy, která je vězněm centrální věznice Tihar v Novém Dillí. Byli identifikováni peer pedagogové a Dr. Rajesh Kumar, výkonný ředitel SPYM spolu s dalšími vězeňskými...
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...
Závislost na kokainu vede k hromadění železa v mozku
Podle nové studie může závislost na kokainu změnit způsob, jakým tělo zpracovává železo.
US Pediatricians Warn of Rising Risks to Youth from Loosening Marijuana Laws
New American Academy of Pediatrics report calls on doctors to help protect patients’ developing brains and bodies from the health harms of marijuana amid increased legalisation
The AAP urges pediatricians screen adolescents and preteens...
Effectiveness of the Gold Standard Programme Compared with Other Smoking Cessation Interventions in Denmark
Strengths and Limitations of this Study
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This study was based on a large cohort of smokers from all regions and settings in Denmark. 46 287 smokers were included in the study, and the follow-up rate was high (74%).
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The study was...
The Impact of Alcohol Use and Related Disorders on the HIV Continuum of Care
Alcohol use is highly prevalent globally with numerous negative consequences to human health, including HIV progression, in people living with HIV (PLH). The HIV continuum of care, or treatment cascade, represents a sequence of targets for...
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...
Systematický přehled: Účinnost a bezpečnost lékařské marihuany u vybraných neurologických poruch
ABSTRAKTNÍ
Objektivní: Určit účinnost lékařské marihuany u několika neurologických stavů.
Metody: Provedli jsme systematický přehled lékařské marihuany (1948–listopad 2013), abychom se zabývali léčbou příznaků roztroušené sklerózy (RS)...
Tisíce lidí umírají bez přístupu k léčbě alkoholu
BBC uvádí, že téměř 8 000 vysoce rizikových pijáků zemřelo ve Walesu ve Velké Británii v letech 2005 až 2014 z příčin souvisejících s alkoholem, aniž by podstoupili léčbu závislosti na alkoholu. A to navzdory opakovaným hospitalizacím a...
Whole Family Recovery
This document provides an overview of themes that emerged from the Adfam’s Whole Family Recovery and Alcohol Focus Groups and interviews. This research was conducted to scope the impacts of the recovery of someone with an alcohol problem on...
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...
Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children – One Year on
This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the debate on reducing the risks to children...
Medications in Drug Treatment – Tackling the Risks to Children
This report examines cases where children have died or come to harm from ingesting Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) medicines prescribed to help people overcome drug addiction. There have been 17 Serious Case Reviews involving the...
Enzymy podílející se na metabolismu kokainu: nový farmakologický přístup k léčbě předávkování kokainem
Abstrakt angličtina/španělština
Úvod: Byly vyvinuty nové terapeutické strategie proti toxicitě předávkování kokainem. Tyto nové přístupy jsou založeny na návrhu a syntéze proteinů, které se podílejí na destrukci kokainu dříve, než má šanci...
Systémové a individuální faktory v procesu hledání léčby buprenorfinem: kvalitativní studie
Abstraktní
Pozadí: Užívání opiátů je na Aljašce významným problémem. Léčba užívání opiátů, včetně buprenorfinu, snižuje abstinenční příznaky a škody spojené se zneužíváním opiátů. Pochopení procesu vyhledávání léčby u spotřebitelů je...