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...
La dott.ssa Nora Volkow, direttrice del NIDA, discute i risultati del sondaggio Monitoring the Future 2018 durante una teleconferenza che si è svolta il 17 dicembre 2018.
Monitoring the Future tiene traccia delle tendenze del consumo di...
Adolescence is a period of time where young people are more likely to seek independence and novel experiences, experiment with their expression and identity and have less regard for risk. Given the natural surge in sensation-seeking...
Questo post sul blog del direttore esecutivo dell'ICUDDR, Kim Johnson, discute un metodo per misurare i risultati nazionali degli sforzi per ridurre il numero di morti per overdose negli Stati Uniti.
Although cigarette smoking among adults in the United States has been steadily decreasing, rates continue to remain high amongst certain vulnerable populations.
A recent study published in the international journal of Addictive Behaviours ...
Un recente video prodotto da Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration evidenzia le conseguenze dannose del minorenne e dell'eccessivo consumo di alcol e fornisce strategie basate su prove che possono essere utilizzate in un...
Il National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) è l'indagine più completa sull'uso di sostanze, i disturbi da uso di sostanze, la salute mentale e la ricezione di servizi di trattamento per questi disturbi negli Stati Uniti. NSDUH è...
A study implementing the use of virtual reality to explore addition and recovery has been published by a team of researchers connected to Clinical Tools, Inc. Clinical Tools is based in the USA with work combining medicine, science, and...
A study published in the Journal of Community Health, Examining Differences in Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC) Levels and Hazardous Drinking by Smoking Status Among a Sample of College Student Bar Patrons, explores the relationship...
A webinar on opioid use disorder by Dr. Dennis McCarty is now available through the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) website.
The hour long webinar took place in April 2018 and discusses treatment and prevention. The webinar...
A study published in the LGBT Health Journal explores family rejection as a predictor for substance misuse in transgender and gender nonconforming adults.
Taking data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey the study involved...
A study exploring the completion of outpatient substance use disorder treatment has highlighted racial and ethnic health disparities.
The research team utilised a sample of 416,224 outpatient discharges in the study which found people of...
National Prevention week led by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) will take place from 13-19th May 2018.
Each day focus will fall on a different topic - starting off with the theme of "Promotion of Mental Health...
Policy interventions such as public health mass media campaigns disseminate messages in order to improve health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors at the population level. Only more recently have campaigns that...
Abbiamo esaminato la prevalenza e i predittori di regole domestiche complete senza fumo (cioè case e auto senza fumo) tra fumatori e non fumatori in Minnesota. I dati provengono dal Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey del 2014; le...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery Grant is now open for applications. Offering up to 5 million USD the grant can be used for a range of projects...
This report presents information on four types of outcomes from the four different data sources:
