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Treatment
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.
Multimorbidity in Patients Enrolled in a Community-Based Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programme Delivered through Primary Care
Abstract
Background: Multimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more (2+) long-term conditions in an individual, is common among problem drug abusers.
Objective: To delineate the patterns, multimorbidity prevalence, and disease severity...
A Socioecological Approach to Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This...
What is 'Substance Use'?
The following tries to summarise both what “substance use” is, and some of the issues that surround the term.
Characteristics of Persons Who Inject Drugs and Who Witness Opioid Overdoses in Vietnam
Abstract
Background
Persons who use opioids have a high risk of overdose and associated mortality. In Vietnam, little is known about the characteristics of this population and the persons who are witness to those overdoses. One approach...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
Abstract
Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
The Importance of Nutrition for Recovery from Addiction
How important is nutrition for recovery from Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)?
According to new research published in the academic journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence the answer is: very.
The paper, which looked at the relationship between...
Διπλές διαταραχές: Ένας νέος τρόπος για να σκεφτείτε τον εθισμό;
Παρά την αυξανόμενη βάση αποδεικτικών στοιχείων και τις πολυάριθμες αλλαγές πολιτικής, η συσχέτιση μεταξύ εθισμού και άλλων προβλημάτων ψυχικής υγείας συχνά αγνοείται.
Παραμένει ότι πολλοί ασθενείς με Διαταραχή Χρήσης Ουσιών (SUD) έχουν...
Synthetic Cathinone and Cannabinoid Designer Drugs Pose a Major Risk for Public Health
As part of an increasing worldwide use of designer drugs, recent use of compounds containing cathinones and synthetic cannabinoids is especially prevalent. Here, we reviewed current literature on the prevalence, epidemiology, bio-behavioral...
How States Are Tackling the Opioid Crisis
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
We used data from the 2015 National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors Web-based questionnaire and other sources to demonstrate the range and scope of state initiatives being used to deal with the...
Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
Τάσεις στους θανάτους που αφορούν ηρωίνη και συνθετικά οπιοειδή, εξαιρουμένης της μεθαδόνης, και εκθέσεις προϊόντων ναρκωτικών της επιβολής του νόμου
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Τι είναι ήδη γνωστό για αυτό το θέμα;
Οι θάνατοι από υπερβολική δόση οπιοειδών στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες αυξάνονται από το 1999, αρχικά λόγω της χρήσης συνταγογραφούμενων οπιοειδών και πιο πρόσφατα από την ηρωίνη και άλλη παράνομη...
Ιδιοκτησία smartphone μεταξύ των καπνιστών τσιγάρων ενηλίκων των ΗΠΑ
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Ιστορικό: Παρά το αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον για εφαρμογές smartphone ως πλατφόρμα για την παράδοση παρεμβάσεων διακοπής του καπνού, καμία προηγούμενη μελέτη δεν έχει αξιολογήσει τον επιπολασμό και τα χαρακτηριστικά των καπνιστών που...
Ανησυχητικές τάσεις χρήσης ουσιών μεταξύ των άνω των 50 ετών
Το 2011, το Βασιλικό Κολλέγιο Ψυχιάτρων συμβούλευσε ότι οι άνω των 50 ετών δεν πρέπει να υπερβαίνουν τις 11 μονάδες αλκοόλ την εβδομάδα, σε σύγκριση με 14 για τον υπόλοιπο ενήλικο πληθυσμό, λόγω φυσιολογικών και μεταβολικών αλλαγών που...
Άρθρο ανασκόπησης: Πρόσφατες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τη λήψη κλινικών αποφάσεων σε σοβαρή αλκοολική ηπατίτιδα
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Φόντο
Η αλκοολική ηπατίτιδα είναι μια σοβαρή οξεία εκδήλωση αλκοολικής ηπατικής νόσου με υψηλή θνησιμότητα. Η διαχείριση των ασθενών με αυτή την πάθηση αποτελεί θέμα διαμάχης εδώ και πολλά χρόνια. Ωστόσο, πρόσφατες κλινικές...
More Reasons to Move: Exercise in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
Physical exercise is widely regarded as “medicine” for the prevention and treatment of myriad somatic health conditions. Studies also demonstrate that exercise is effective in the treatment of common mental disorders and has a role in the...
Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
ABSTRACT
Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
¿Es posible una lucha real?
Geraldine González Willim es experta en la prevención y el tratamiento de adicciones de drogas legales o ilegales. En esta entrevista, detalla sobre los planes de acción aplicables al Paraguay para luchar contra un flagelo que cada día...
Line Up Live Up Trainer Manual: Preventing Drug Use by Promoting Active Lifestyles
Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.
It looks to promote sport and...
Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
Abstract
Background
There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...