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2017 UNODC World Drug Report
Now in its 20th year of publication, the UNODC World Drug Report for 2017 is now available.
It consists of 5 accessible booklets:
Booklet 1 provides a summary of the subsequent 4 booklets. It also discusses the policy implications of the...
Alcohol Interventions in Primary Care Settings: What Works, What Doesn’t and What's Next?
This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the U...
Κίνδυνος θνησιμότητας κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά τη θεραπεία υποκατάστασης οπιοειδών
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Σύγκριση του κινδύνου θνησιμότητας από όλες τις αιτίες και την υπερβολική δόση σε άτομα με εξάρτηση από οπιοειδή κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά τη θεραπεία υποκατάστασης με μεθαδόνη ή βουπρενορφίνη και χαρακτηρισμός...
Life in Recovery from Addiction in Canada
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has recently teamed up with the National Recovery Advisory Committee to produce the first Canadian survey of people in recovery from drug addiction and/or alcoholism.
The findings...
European Drug Report 2017
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Ένα αυξανόμενο ζήτημα: Ένας αυξημένος αριθμός εισέρχεται στη θεραπεία ναρκωτικών για χρήση κάνναβης σε όλη την Ευρώπη
Νέα έρευνα που δημοσιεύθηκε στο περιοδικό European Addiction Research σκιαγραφεί μια εικόνα των υπηρεσιών θεραπείας ναρκωτικών για προβλήματα που σχετίζονται με την κάνναβη μεταξύ 2003 - 2014 σε 22 ευρωπαϊκές χώρες.
Ειδικότερα, υποδηλώνει...
Αποτελεσματικότητα Τράπεζα Matrix Bite: Διαχείριση εξαναγκασμένης θεραπείας αλκοόλ
Βασικές μελέτες σχετικά με το ρόλο της διοίκησης στην αντιμετώπιση της προβληματικής κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ σε περιβάλλοντα ποινικής δικαιοσύνης ή/και στην προστασία της κοινότητας. Όπως και για τους επαγγελματίες, για τους μάνατζερ η πρόκληση...
Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances
‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...
For Whom Does Prison-Based Drug Treatment Work? Results from a Randomized Experiment
For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...
Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
A Possible New Treatment for Alcohol Disorders?
New research published in the journal Biological Psychiartry points to a novel way for the treatment of alcoholism. This would look to reduce motivation for drinking instead of altering the effects of alcohol, itself. Indeed, the study...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?
A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...
Technology and Smoking Cessation: Are Personalised Emails Effective for Would-be Quitters?
A new American Cancer Society study published in the journal Tobacco Control suggests that regularly receiving personalised emails with tips for quitting amongst other information could be as effective at reducing the rate of smoking as...
More Treatments on Deck for Alcohol Use Disorder
Thirteen years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last approved a new medication to help the nation’s millions of people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) stop or moderate their drinking.
Only 3 such formulations...
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Μη φαρμακευτική χρήση ριταλίνης: Η μελέτη βελτιώθηκε, αλλά πήρε μια ευκαιρία
Νέα έρευνα που δημοσιεύθηκε στο Journal of Neural Transmission επισημαίνει μια σειρά από πιθανές ανεπιθύμητες παρενέργειες από τη χρήση του διεγερτικού φαρμάκου Ritalin χωρίς ιατρική συνταγή. Η ριταλίνη (μεθυλφαινιδάτη) χρησιμοποιείται...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community
The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...
