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Effect of Initiating Drug Treatment on the Risk of Drug-Related Poisoning Death and Acquisitive Crime among Offending Heroin Users
Abstract
Background
A recent Cochrane review of randomised trials identified a lack of evidence for interventions provided to drug-using offenders. We use routine data to address whether contact with treatment services reduces heroin user...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
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...
Μεταβαλλόμενα πρότυπα κατάχρησης ουσιών στις φυλακές ενηλίκων και απαντήσεις υπηρεσιών
Τα ευρήματα της επιθεώρησης συμπληρώθηκαν από επιτόπιες εργασίες σε οκτώ φυλακές το 2014 για να δημιουργηθεί μια συνολική εικόνα της χρήσης ναρκωτικών και των απαντήσεων σε αυτήν στις φυλακές της Αγγλίας και της Ουαλίας. Ενόψει των ταχέως...
The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
- ...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 5: Safeguarding the Community
Time to consolidate the lessons of the course’s last five instalments about treatment intended to safeguard the community, the final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. A common theme is the contradiction between treatment centred on the...
Long Lasting Effects of Chronic Heavy Cannabis Abuse
Abstract
Background and Objectives
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent of short-term memory impairment and schizophrenia-like symptoms in heavy and systematic cannabis users and the association between the severity of...
Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems.
This 2017 version offers new guidelines on:
- prison-based treatment
- new psychoactive substances and club drugs
- mental health co-morbidity...
Αποτελεσματικότητα Bank Matrix Bite: Συστήματα θεραπείας για τη μείωση του εγκλήματος που σχετίζεται με το αλκοόλ και τη διαφύλαξη της Κοινότητας
Τελικό κύτταρο της μήτρας θεραπείας αλκοόλ. Το θέμα καθορίζεται από μια αυστραλιανή ανασκόπηση η οποία υποστηρίζει ότι παρά τα ριζικά διαφορετικά σημεία εκκίνησης, τα συστήματα ποινικής δικαιοσύνης και θεραπείας πρέπει να συνεργάζονται για...
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...
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...
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...
Στατιστικά στοιχεία για την κατάχρηση ουσιών ενηλίκων από το Εθνικό Σύστημα Παρακολούθησης της Θεραπείας των Ουσιοεξαρτήσεων (NDTMS)
Αυτή η έκθεση συγκεντρώνει πληροφορίες σχετικά με άτομα που υποβάλλονται σε εξειδικευμένες παρεμβάσεις για προβλήματα ναρκωτικών και για προβλήματα κατανάλωσης οινοπνεύματος στην Αγγλία, εκτός από τους ασθενείς που λαμβάνουν αυτή τη...
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...
Crime and Social Impacts of Alcohol
Alcohol-related crime and social disorder is estimated to cost UK taxpayers £11bn per year, at 2010/11 prices.[1]
Alcohol-related crime makes up a substantial portion of violent offences across the UK (47% in England and Wales in 2014/15,[...
Νέα διαδικτυακή εκπαίδευση για επαγγελματίες, ομότιμους μέντορες και διαχειριστές υπηρεσιών
Αυτή η νέα πλατφόρμα επιτρέπει την κατάχρηση ουσιών, την επιτήρηση και τις υπηρεσίες φυλακών για να ανατρυπώσει το εργατικό δυναμικό τους με κλιμακούμενο και συνεπή τρόπο και να βελτιστοποιήσει τη χρήση του προγράμματος αλλαγής ψηφιακής συμ...