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The application and integration of the best available research, clinical expertise, quality marks and patient preferences to ensure high-quality care in substance use disorders services.
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Quality Standards in Lithuania 1992–2022: From Grassroots Initiatives to Nationwide Strategies
BACKGROUND: The implementation of quality standards in the treatment of substance use disorders in Lithuania is not well documented in the literature. AIMS: To describe the process of the development of quality standards from grassroots...
Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses
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Importance A previous meta-analysis of the association between alcohol use and all-cause mortality found no statistically significant reductions in mortality risk at low levels of consumption compared with lifetime nondrinkers...
Pelatihan Online INEP Plus Indonesia
ISSUP Indonesia menyelenggarakan Kursus Online Pengantar Pencegahan Berbasis Bukti (INEP) sebagai pelatihan tingkat nasional di Indonesia dengan 17 peserta. Pelatihan yang dilakukan oleh Dr.dr. Kristiana Siste, SpKJ, dan Dr. Elvina K...
Mental illness attitudes in medical education: Assessing the stigma in medical students
Abstract:
Introduction. Factors affecting the quality of physician care include a shortage of trained staff, stigma, and discrimination.
Objective. The objective was to compare the intensity of stigmatization before and after a Psychiatry...
Assessment of Medical Cannabis and Health-Related Quality of Life
Abstract
Importance The use of cannabis as a medicine is becoming increasingly prevalent. Given the diverse range of conditions being treated with medical cannabis, as well as the vast array of products and dose forms available, clinical...
UNODC supported delegations from four Central Asian countries in a high-level study tour to the United Kingdom
The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) together with the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS) organized a study tour for high-level representatives, including senior officials, policymakers and substance...
Evaluasi Ekonomi Pengobatan Farmakologi untuk Gangguan Penggunaan Opioid: Tinjauan Literatur Sistematis
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Obyektif
Krisis penggunaan opioid membebani sumber daya di Amerika Serikat dan di seluruh dunia. Ada 3 obat yang disetujui oleh Food and Drug Administration AS untuk pengobatan gangguan penggunaan opioid: metadon, buprenorfin, dan...
Situation of Homelessness and Substance Use in India and the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
Availability of safe and comfortable shelter is one of the elementary human needs essential for both an individual’s survival as well as social development. However, even in the 21st century, about one fifth of the world’s population...
Psychoactive Prescription Drug Abuse: Selected Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life in Addiction Treatment. Study Protocol
BACKGROUND: The abuse of psychoactive prescription drugs has become increasingly common in the Czech Republic. These drugs include sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics (benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics), and opioids. Patients with an addiction...
Membangun Ketahanan dan Bangkit Kembali dari Kemunduran dalam Pemulihan: Perspektif PEER
Profil kualitas penggunaan perawatan rawat jalan, karakteristik sosiodemografi dan klinis terkait, dan hasil yang merugikan di antara pasien dengan gangguan terkait zat
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Latar
Studi ini mengidentifikasi profil pasien dalam hal kualitas penggunaan perawatan rawat jalan, karakteristik sosiodemografi dan klinis terkait, dan hasil yang merugikan berdasarkan penggunaan gawat darurat (ED) yang sering...
Correlates of treatment engagement and client outcomes: results of a randomised controlled trial of nabiximols for the treatment of cannabis use disorder
Introduction
There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary analysis...
Black girls and referrals: racial and gender disparities in self-reported referral to substance use disorder assessment among justice-involved children
Background
There is a higher prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) among justice-involved children (JIC). It is critical to ensure that JIC who report current use are referred for SUD assessment and potentially life-saving treatment...
Gangguan terhadap peran kesehatan masyarakat lokal AS dalam pencegahan dan respons penggunaan zat berbasis populasi selama COVID-19
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COVID-19 secara dramatis membatasi skala dan ruang lingkup pekerjaan departemen kesehatan setempat (LHD), mengarahkan sumber daya ke respons. Namun, kebutuhan akan layanan kesehatan masyarakat yang penting — termasuk pencegahan...
Experiences of frontline healthcare workers and their views about support during COVID-19 and previous pandemics: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
Background
Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health...
Supporting Government of Pakistan’s in its efforts to ensure standardized, adequate, and evidence-based drug dependence treatment and care
UNODC in collaboration with the Ministry of Narcotics Control (MoNC) and the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination (MoNHSR&C) and with the generous support from US/INL, is developing National Standards and...
National policymakers and key stakeholders in Kyrgyzstan enhance their knowledge on drug use disorder system Quality Assurance through UNODC training
The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) conducted a National Training “UNODC Drug Use Disorder Treatment Systems Quality Assurance (QA)” which took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 28-30 November 2022.
This capacity building...
INL DDR Partners Call - Quality Assurance
This month on November 9th, 2022, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) DDR Partners meeting offered a discussion on quality assurance and included two presentations:
- Building Quality Improvement for SUD Treatment...
General Principles of Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation
Contingency management (CM) is a psychological treatment based on operant conditioning. It consists of providing incentives in exchange for achieving a target behaviour such as abstinence or other treatmentrelated variables (e.g. session...
Effects of a brief pre-admission telephone reminder on no-show and dropout rates in substance use disorder treatment: a quasi-experimental study
Background
Appointment no-show and early dropout from treatment represent major challenges in outpatient substance use disorder treatment, adversely affecting clinical outcomes and health care productivity. In this quasi-experimental...
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