Telah diumumkan bahwa otoritas lokal di seluruh Inggris akan mendapat manfaat dari dana pemerintah tambahan £ 421 juta hingga 2025 untuk meningkatkan perawatan dan pemulihan kecanduan narkoba dan alkohol.

Dana tambahan akan memungkinkan penciptaan lebih dari 50.000 tempat berkualitas tinggi untuk perawatan narkoba dan alkohol.

Pendanaan tersebut akan memungkinkan pemerintah daerah untuk:

• merekrut lebih banyak staf untuk bekerja dengan orang-orang dengan masalah narkoba dan alkohol
• mendukung lebih banyak lulusan penjara ke dalam layanan perawatan dan pemulihan
• berinvestasi dalam...

The VNGOC together with NYNGOC and the UNODC Civil Society Unit is organizing an online side event in the margins of the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum on 31 January 2023 at 8.30 AM. The event is titled: The central role of civil society in drug policies, COVID-19 and achieving the 2030 Agenda

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances – has been implemented in some jurisdictions to provide safer alternatives to the unregulated drug supply, yet no studies to date have explored professional stakeholder perspectives on this approach.

Methods

Purposive sampling was used to recruit professional stakeholders (n = 17) from four locations in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, including...

Background

Interdisciplinary collaborations (i.e., where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are stated to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary approaches (i.e., where various disciplines work in parallel within their professional boundaries) in somatic health care settings. Nevertheless, research is lacking on interdisciplinary approaches for alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment of hospitalized patients as these types of approaches are still uncommon. This study aims to evaluate an innovative interdisciplinary AUD treatment...

Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MATTC) bermitra dengan Jaringan Respons Opioid Komunitas Etnis di Missouri, Forum Kebijakan Kecanduan, dan Jaringan Respons Opioid (ORN di IA, KS, MO, dan NE) untuk menerjemahkan 5 produk pencegahan berbasis bukti yang berbeda " Pencegahan Materi Pendidikan Penggunaan Opioid"  ke dalam 12 bahasa yang berbeda, dan memastikan mereka sesuai budaya, termasuk Arab, Bosnia, Burma, Dari, Prancis, Tionghoa Mandarin, Pashto, Somalia, Spanyol, Swahili, Tagalog (Filipina), dan Ukraina.

The connection between homelessness and substance use is well recognised and an issue that impacts countries around the world. People who experience substance use related issues and homelessness are extremely vulnerable to a range of harms and can find it challenging to access appropriate support that will adequately meet their needs.

In order to address the often-complex issues this population experience, it is important the workforce has appropriate knowledge about the challenges people are facing, the different forms of support and targeted interventions that are available, and means of...

Executive summary

The 10-year UK Government plan to combat illegal drugs sets out how we are doing more than ever to cut off the supply of drugs by criminal gangs and give people with a drug addiction a route to a productive and drug-free life. Underpinned by record investment of over £3 billion in the next three years, we will reduce drug-related crime, death, harm and overall drug use.

National and local partners will focus on delivering three strategic priorities:

1. Break drug supply chains – Home Office and Ministry of Justice
2. Deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system –...