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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.
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...
Community Convening Guide: Substance Use Prevention, Screening, and Early Intervention
A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...
Το κοινωνικό κόστος της διαταραχής χρήσης ηρωίνης στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
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Αντικειμενικός
Η χρήση ηρωίνης στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες έχει λάβει διαστάσεις επιδημίας. Στόχος αυτού του εγγράφου είναι να εκτιμηθεί το ετήσιο κοινωνικό κόστος της διαταραχής χρήσης ηρωίνης στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες το 2015 σε...
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...
Οι α2-αδρενεργικοί αγωνιστές μειώνουν τα συμπτώματα που σχετίζονται με την απόσυρση οπιοειδών;
Επιλογή Σπουδών
Αυτή η συστηματική ανασκόπηση περιελάμβανε τυχαιοποιημένες ελεγχόμενες κλινικές δοκιμές που συνέκριναν τη χορήγηση ενός α2-αδενεργικού αγωνιστή με άλλες παρεμβάσεις όπως το εικονικό φάρμακο ή η μεθαδόνη για τη μείωση των...
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...
Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids: A Free Online Training Course
A free online training course from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now available.
The course addresses the CDC recommendations with respect to the prescription of opioids for chronic pain as well as their treatment...
