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The range of medical, psychological, and social services designed to help individuals reduce or stop substance use and manage substance use disorders. Treatment may include assessment, counselling and behavioural therapies, medication-assisted treatment, withdrawal management, and support for co-occurring mental or physical health conditions. Effective treatment is typically person-centred and evidence-informed, and may be provided in outpatient, community, or residential settings. Treatment aims to improve health and functioning, reduce substance-related harms, and support individuals in moving toward recovery and long-term wellbeing.
Understanding the Brain’s Role in Drug Addiction
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Findings recently revealed in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and the Journal of Neuroscience suggest the cerebellum is co-responsible for the alterations in the brain that are linked with excessive substance abuse.
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Preventing and Treating Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued a new evidence-based guideline for combatting tobacco use by children and young adults aged 5 – 18, suggesting that physicians ought to have a more active role in the prevention...
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...
Podcast: Do Tobacco Cessation Interventions Provided during Substance Abuse Treatment or Recovery Help Tobacco Users to Quit?
Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...
Αποτελεσματικότητα Bank Matrix Bite: Ο ομιλητής στη διαδρομή ομιλίας προς την ανάκαμψη
Στις ψυχοκοινωνικές θεραπείες, η θέσπιση της σχέσης πελάτη-εργαζομένου είναι η θεραπεία. Δομημένο γύρω από την κλασική διατύπωση του Carl Rogers για τις «απαραίτητες και επαρκείς συνθήκες» για τη θεραπευτική πρόοδο, το κύτταρο στο Alcohol...
Οπιοειδή που συνδέονται με την αύξηση των θανάτων από υπερβολική δόση κοκαΐνης
Η ηρωίνη και τα συνθετικά οπιοειδή ωθούν σε αύξηση των θανάτων από υπερβολική δόση κοκαΐνης. Αυτό σύμφωνα με μια εθνική έρευνα που πραγματοποιήθηκε από ερευνητές στο Εθνικό Ινστιτούτο για την Κατάχρηση Ναρκωτικών (NIDA) μεταξύ άλλων...
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...
Training of Peer Educators at Tihar Central Jail
SPYM has started a prison intervention program among drug abusing youth who are inmates of the Central Jail, Tihar in New Delhi. Peer educators have been identified and a training program was conducted by Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive...
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...
Cocaine Addiction Leads to Build-Up of Iron in the Brain
According to a new study, cocaine addiction may alter the way the body processes iron.
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...
Terminology and Information on Drugs
PREFACE
The UNODC publication Terminology and Information on Drugs introduces basic concepts and materials on substances under international control, which are most frequently manufactured or processed and/or abused, as well as definitions...
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...
Κατευθυντήριες γραμμές κλινικής πρακτικής για τη διαχείριση διαταραχών χρήσης ουσιών
Αυτή η κατευθυντήρια γραμμή αντιπροσωπεύει ένα σημαντικό βήμα προς τη βελτίωση της θεραπείας και της διαχείρισης των ασθενών με διαταραχές χρήσης ουσιών (SUD) στο Τμήμα Υποθέσεων Βετεράνων (VA) και στο Υπουργείο Άμυνας (DoD). Όπως και με...
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...
Συστηματική ανασκόπηση: Αποτελεσματικότητα και ασφάλεια της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας σε επιλεγμένες νευρολογικές διαταραχές
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Αντικειμενικός: Για να προσδιορίσετε την αποτελεσματικότητα της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας σε διάφορες νευρολογικές καταστάσεις.
Μεθόδους: Πραγματοποιήσαμε μια συστηματική ανασκόπηση της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας (1948-Νοέμβριος 2013)...
Thousands Die without Access to Alcohol Treatment
The BBC reports that almost 8,000 high-risk drinkers died from alcohol-related causes in Wales, UK between 2005 – 2014 without having received treatment for alcohol addiction. This is despite repeated hospital and A&E admissions for as much...
Ολόκληρη η οικογενειακή αποκατάσταση
Αυτό το έγγραφο παρέχει μια επισκόπηση των θεμάτων που προέκυψαν από τις ομάδες και τις συνεντεύξεις του Adfam για ολόκληρη την οικογενειακή αποκατάσταση και την εστίαση στο αλκοόλ. Αυτή η έρευνα διεξήχθη για να εξετάσουμε τις επιπτώσεις...
