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Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
ATTC White Paper: Preparing Students to Work in Integrated Health Care Systems
A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...
Extending the Reach of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders into Rural Areas
A new study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine suggests that a tele-psychiatric approach which uses video-link technology in combination with medicinal treatment in the form of buprenorphine could be as effective as the usual...
The Effects of Psychoactive Substances on Driving
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) has released a new report detailing possible effects of psychoactive prescription drugs while driving. The study was carried out with the effort to inform policy decisions aimed at reducing the...
Sekarang Tersedia: Paket Kuesioner Survei Fasilitas Eropa (EFSQ)
Kuesioner Survei Fasilitas Eropa (EFSQ) dapat digunakan untuk pengumpulan data di negara mana pun oleh mereka yang ingin menyelidiki fasilitas yang menyediakan intervensi bagi pengguna narkoba.
Tujuannya adalah untuk mengumpulkan informasi...
Aggression Linked to Substance Use
New Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has found that people with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) – a condition with a significant genetic component characterised by regular outbursts of aggression, whether...
Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 4: The Talking Route to Recovery
The Talking Route to Recovery
Time to consolidate the lessons of last five instalments of the online course on alcohol treatment research. Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this row is about therapies in...
What Is There to Know About Psychosocial Interventions in Drug Treatment?
Psychosocial interventions are psychological or social interventions used to tackle issues related to substance abuse and behavioural addictions. They can be employed to identify and treat problems, as well as to assist with user...
Global Smoking Rates on Decline Thanks to Demand-Reduction Measures
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
Can We ‘Switch Off’ Our Need to Drink Alcohol?
New research by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) may lead to the development of personalised treatments for alcohol dependence. The study evaluated how people’s responses in the brain differ to various therapeutic...
Cocaine Elicits Autophagic Cytotoxicity via a Nitric Oxide-GAPDH Signaling Cascade
Abstract
Cocaine exerts its behavioral stimulant effects by facilitating synaptic actions of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. It is also neurotoxic and broadly cytotoxic, leading to overdose deaths. We demonstrate that the...
New Evidence in Mice That Cocaine Makes Brain Cells Cannibalize Themselves
Working with mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have contributed significant new evidence to support the idea that high doses of cocaine kill brain cells by triggering overactive autophagy, a process in which cells literally digest their...
ISSUP Mexico 2017
At the beginning of April ISSUP’s Deputy Executive Director, Joanna Travis-Roberts, headed to Cancún, Mexico to plan for this year’s Annual ISSUP Workshop.
EMCDDA Treatment Standards and Best Practice
Discover what works (and what doesn't work) in the areas of drug prevention, treatment and social reintegration.
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Terapi Psikososial dalam Sistem Perawatan
Ini adalah salah satu dari 25 sel dalam Matriks Perawatan Alkohol. Sel membahas penelitian kunci yang berkaitan dengan peran terapi psikososial dalam sistem pengobatan lokal. Secara khusus, peran mereka dalam menciptakan campuran layanan...
Should Opioid Dependent Patients Receive Immediate Access to Medical Treatment?
New research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found through a comparison of treatment approaches for opioid dependence that, in an emergency setting, combining the medication buprenorphine with on-going care is...
Bisakah Berpantang dari Alkohol Membantu Memerangi Penyebaran HIV?
Penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa alkohol mungkin memainkan peran dalam lebih dari 13% kematian akibat penyakit menular, termasuk HIV.
Bukti menunjukkan bahwa konsumsi alkohol secara negatif mempengaruhi perang melawan HIV terutama dengan...
Mungkinkah LSD Memiliki Peran dalam Perawatan Terapi Baru?
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Translational Psychiatry telah menemukan bahwa LSD mengurangi aktivitas di wilayah otak yang bertanggung jawab atas emosi negatif seperti rasa takut.
Para peneliti menyebut ini 'efek de...
Apakah Merokok Meningkatkan Kemungkinan Kambuh ke Penggunaan Zat Ilegal?
Di antara orang yang pulih dari gangguan penggunaan narkoba, mereka yang merokok lebih mungkin kambuh tiga tahun kemudian dibandingkan dengan mereka yang tidak, menurut temuan baru yang diterbitkan dalam The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
...Pengaruh Organisasi pada Terapi Psikososial
Angsuran terbaru kursus online tentang penelitian perawatan alkohol. Lihat apakah Anda setuju dengan peneliti AS yang berpengaruh bahwa "iklim organisasi mendasari seluruh proses adopsi inovasi", menghargai efek pergantian staf yang tinggi...
Obat-obatan di otak: penggunaan zat dan neurotransmisi
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) telah menerbitkan ikhtisar yang diperluas yang merinci dampak obat-obatan tertentu pada fungsi otak, serta metode eksperimental yang paling umum digunakan dalam penelitian terkait.
Ahli saraf...
