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Looking for fresh ideas for 2020 lesson planning? You can find more than 90 free, standards-based activities and lesson plans on drugs with NIDA’s Lesson Plan and Activity Finder.
Looking for fresh ideas for 2020 lesson planning? You can find more than 90 free, standards-based activities and lesson plans on drugs with NIDA’s Lesson Plan and Activity Finder.
Counselors: Need a tool to help people leaving criminal justice facilities stay drug-free? The Drugs & the Brain Wallet Card is designed specifically for people transitioning back to a less structured environment.
Opioid use disorder is a chronic, relapsing disease and a global health burden. Treatment for OUD tends to involve a combination of medication and behavioural intervention. It is recognised that buprenorphine can alleviate opioid withdrawal...
Recent studies carried out by researchers from Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins University have examined characteristics linked with the heightened risk NAS.
The researchers found that boys are more likely to receive a diagnosis...
This articles discusses the central importance of studying drugs’ effects on neurotransmission and describes some of the most common experimental methods used in this research.
Drugs can alter the way people think, feel, and behave by...
Una risorsa infografica del National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) che esplora le statistiche sulla morte correlate alla droga relative al fentanil e ad altri oppioidi sintetici riportate negli Stati Uniti.
Con quasi il 50% dei decessi...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found an association with young people being exposed to adverts for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and taking up smoking later in life.
The study followed 10 989...
A recent study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health examined the use of mobile health technology in the United States’ health care system.
Published in the Journal of...
Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Centre for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking and Health have been exploring the link between drug dependence, ongoing drug use, relapse and exposure to stress or experience of stressful events...
Negli Stati Uniti, meno del 10% degli adulti con problemi di salute mentale concomitanti e disturbi da uso di sostanze ricevono un trattamento per entrambi. Il 50% non riceve cure per nessuno dei due.
Ciò evidenzia la grande discrepanza...
Una nuova ricerca finanziata dal National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ha rilevato che gli studenti universitari che consumano regolarmente bevande energetiche hanno maggiori probabilità di sviluppare disturbi da uso di alcol più avanti...
Recenti ricerche suggeriscono che la compromissione dell'habenula laterale (LB) – la regione del cervello nota per registrare esperienze negative – può contribuire allo sviluppo della tossicodipendenza.
Lo studio, condotto su ratti di...
Questo uso improprio di oppioidi da prescrizione è una delle principali sfide per la salute pubblica. La buprenorfina-naloxone (bup-nx) è tipicamente usata per trattare i disturbi da uso di oppioidi. Tuttavia, la sperimentazione clinica del...
La gestione delle contingenze (CM) è una terapia comportamentale ampiamente utilizzata per i disturbi da uso di sostanze. Offre ricompense materiali per la partecipazione alle sessioni e l'adesione ai corsi di farmaci prescritti, tra gli...
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