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Guía de intervención mhGAP para los trastornos mentales, neurológicos y por consumo de sustancias en el nivel de atención de salud no especializada. Versión 2.0
Los trastornos mentales, neurológicos y por consumo de sustancias (MNS) son muy frecuentes y representan una gran carga de enfermedad y discapacidad a nivel mundial. Subsiste una amplia brecha entre la capacidad de los sistemas de salud y...
mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0 for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders in Non-Specialized Health Settings
Overview
This is the second version (2016) of the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialist health settings. It is for use by doctors, nurses, other health workers as...
Alcohol and Drugs Prevention, Treatment and Recovery: Why Invest?
Estimates show that in the UK the social and economic costs of alcohol related harm amount to £21.5bn, while harm from illicit drug use costs £10.7bn. These include costs associated with deaths, the NHS, crime and, in the case of alcohol...
Il modello internazionale dei danni e delle politiche dell'alcol
L'Istituto canadese per la ricerca sull'uso di sostanze presso l'Università di Victoria ha pubblicato il modello internazionale dei danni e delle politiche dell'alcol .
Composta da una serie di linee guida, metodi e strumenti, questa...
Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco
'Million Hearts' is an initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by promoting evidence-based intervention through communities, health systems, non-profit...
Educazione e prevenzione di alcol e droghe a base scolastica - Cosa funziona?
Educazione e prevenzione di alcol e droghe a base scolastica - Cosa funziona? è un nuovo briefing paper pubblicato da Mentor-Adepis. Delinea diversi approcci che hanno dimostrato di funzionare in modo efficace e mette in guardia su quelli...
"Il mio medico di famiglia dice che bevo troppo": screening e breve intervento
In assenza di maggiori ostacoli alla disponibilità, lo screening diffuso per identificare e quindi consigliare brevemente i bevitori a rischio è stata la grande speranza per migliorare la salute pubblica legata all'alcol. Questo importante...
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Statistics
Executive Summary
Data collected in drug treatment agencies play a prominent role in informing policy makers. Such data often represent the only information collected regularly and consistently over a certain period of time. What is even...
Un approccio socioecologico per affrontare le disparità sanitarie legate al tabacco
L'uso del tabacco rimane la principale causa di morte prematura prevenibile, compresa la morte per cancro, e i progressi nella riduzione dell'uso del tabacco e delle malattie e dei decessi correlati non sono stati equamente distribuiti tra...
Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse
Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...
Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood
The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2017) is a special volume that supplements the organisation’s Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, released in 2003...
Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for High Risk Populations
The book “Tobacco Cessation Guidelines for High Risk Populations” is the main result of the TOB.g partnership, coordinated by the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention and consisted of four partners and specifically ENSP, CMT...
The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
...Compilazione di programmi di formazione sulle competenze familiari basati sull'evidenza
La raccolta di programmi di formazione sulle competenze familiari basati sull'evidenza dell'Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite contro la droga e il crimine (UNODC) offre un tesoro di informazioni su tali iniziative, rispondendo a domande chiave...
Standard di conoscenza per la scienza della prevenzione
Pubblicato dalla Society for Prevention Research nel 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention è un documento importante per coloro che lavorano nell'ambito della prevenzione dell'uso di sostanze.
Con l'obiettivo di...
Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...
Predicting the Size and Characteristics of the Drug Treatment Population – Technical Methods
Aim and data specification
This analysis was based on monthly data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from December 2005 to November 2016. NDTMS is taken to be a comprehensive description of drug treatment...
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