All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development

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The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000 people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects on drug-use behavior create dynamic...

Anticancer effects of disulfiram: a systematic review of in vitro, animal, and human studies

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Treatment
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Addiction

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Background and objectives

Cancer morbidity and mortality rates remain high, and thus, at present, considerable efforts are focused on finding drugs with higher sensitivity against tumor cells and fewer side effects. Disulfiram...

The influence of poly-drug use patterns on the association between opioid agonist treatment engagement and injecting initiation assistance

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Treatment
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Evidence suggests people who inject drugs (PWID) prescribed opioid agonist treatment (OAT) are less likely to provide injection drug use (IDU) initiation assistance. We investigated the association between OAT...

Drug treatment management and mental health care training manual review workshop held

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News
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Treatment
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Addiction
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Proper guidelines for professionals are essential in providing quality services. With this in mind, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector organized a day-long consultation workshop on June 2, 2022, under the JPRPHRPC project supported by GIZ...

Grants for private drug treatment and rehabilitation centers in Bangladesh

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Treatment
Treatment Settings

To improve the quality of drug treatment and rehabilitation services, for the third time, the Government of Bangladesh has provided grants to private drug treatment and rehabilitation centers across the country.

Moreover, the government...

Association entre les antécédents de tabagisme et la survie globale chez les patients recevant du pembrolizumab pour le traitement de première intention du cancer du poumon non à petites cellules avancé

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

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Importance  Il est nécessaire d’adapter les traitements aux patients les plus susceptibles d’en tirer le plus grand bénéfice afin d’améliorer les résultats pour les patients et d’accroître la rentabilité des traitements...

Comparison of Medical Cannabis Use Reported on a Confidential Survey vs Documented in the Electronic Health Record Among Primary Care Patients

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Importance  Patients who use cannabis for medical reasons may benefit from discussions with clinicians about health risks of cannabis and evidence-based treatment alternatives. However, little is known about the prevalence of...

Utiliser des modèles, des saveurs, des marques et des ingrédients de cigarettes électroniques non à la nicotintine chez les adolescents, les jeunes adultes et les adultes aux États-Unis

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Importance  Les cigarettes électroniques nonnicoliques contiennent des produits chimiques, des arômes et des solvants qui ont des effets nocifs connus sur la santé et / ou qui n’ont pas été prouvés sûrs pour l’inhalation.

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Patient perspectives on depot buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction – a qualitative interview study

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Treatment
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Quality Assurance

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Recently developed buprenorphine depot injections have the potential to reduce risk for diversion and misuse, and to increase adherence with fewer visits for supervised intake. However, it is unclear how patients perceive this...

Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes

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Treatment
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
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Opioid overdose remains a public health crisis in diverse communities. Between 2019 and 2020, there was an almost 40% increase in drug fatalities primarily due to opioid analogues of both stimulants and opioids. Medications for...

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