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The Societal Cost of Heroin Use Disorder in the United States
ABSTRACT
Objective
Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.
Methods
An analytic...
Masalah yang Berkembang: Peningkatan Jumlah Yang Memasuki Perawatan Obat untuk Penggunaan Ganja di Seluruh Eropa
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal European Addiction Research melukiskan gambaran layanan perawatan obat untuk masalah terkait ganja antara 2003 – 2014 di 22 negara Eropa.
Khususnya, ini menunjukkan bahwa, secara keseluruhan...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment
Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...
Pencegahan dan Pengobatan Penggunaan Narkoba di Lingkungan Pedesaan
Kantor Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa untuk Narkoba dan Kejahatan (UNODC) baru-baru ini menerbitkan apa yang digambarkan organisasi sebagai 'alat peningkatan kesadaran' yang ditujukan untuk pembuat kebijakan, pejabat kesehatan masyarakat...
High-Risk Drug Use and New Psychoactive Substances
‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...
How to Implement Effective School-Based Drug Education
The United Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) outlines a number of methods that can be adopted by schools.
Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: What's There to Learn?
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
Bisakah Depresi Menyebabkan Penggunaan Rokok Elektrik?
Masih banyak pertanyaan yang belum terjawab mengenai efek kesehatan dari rokok elektrik. Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Nicotine & Tobacco menunjukkan bahwa mungkin ada hubungan antara penggunaan rokok elektrik di kalangan...
Kemakmuran dan Tekanan Akademik: Dua Faktor yang Menyebabkan Penyalahgunaan Narkoba?
Sebuah studi baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Development and Psychopathology mengklaim telah menemukan hubungan positif antara kemakmuran, kinerja akademik yang tinggi dan penggunaan narkoba dan alkohol.
Temuan semacam itu penting...
Kemungkinan Pengobatan Baru untuk Gangguan Alkohol?
Penelitian baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Biological Psychiartry menunjukkan cara baru untuk pengobatan alkoholisme. Ini akan terlihat untuk mengurangi motivasi untuk minum alih-alih mengubah efek alkohol itu sendiri. Memang...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
Receptivity to Tobacco Ads Linked to Smoking Susceptibility Among Youth
There is a strong link between receptivity to tobacco product advertisements and susceptibility to smoking cigarettes later in life, according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics. Put simply, the study suggests that the more...
Penghentian Teknologi dan Merokok: Apakah Email yang Dipersonalisasi Efektif untuk Calon Orang yang Berhenti?
Sebuah studi american cancer society baru yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal Tobacco Control menunjukkan bahwa secara teratur menerima email yang dipersonalisasi dengan tips untuk berhenti di antara informasi lain bisa sama efektifnya dalam...
Excessive Drinking: More a Result of Low Socioeconomic Status Than Access to Alcohol?
Among US neighbourhoods, poverty and disorganisation, that is high levels of crime, drug trafficking and graffiti etc., may increase the risk of problem drinking, more so than the presence of bars or stores that sell alcohol.
In other...
Pengobatan Pecandu Alkohol Skid-Row dengan Disulfiram
Dilakukan pada tahun 1962 dan 1963 di Atlanta di AS, artikel unggulan tampaknya yang pertama telah menguji apakah pelanggar minum masalah akan mengambil obat yang menegakkan pantang dengan menghasilkan reaksi jera terhadap alkohol, jika...
Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison.
Analysed textually and pictorially through...
State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and treatment...
Free Harvard Medical School E-Courses on Opioid Addiction for Beginners to Healthcare Professionals
Opioid addiction is a major problem in the US.
In this way, Harvard Medical School (HMS) has introduced a new online course entitled OpioidX: The Opioid Crisis in America.
OpioidX is the first free, comprehensive educational programme on...
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...
Can Medical Marijuana Promote Illegal Use?
Illegal marijuana use and reported cases of addiction have increased more rapidly in US states that passed laws to introduce medical marijuana compared to those that did not. This is according to new research to be published in the journal...