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The range of medical, psychological, and social services designed to help individuals reduce or stop substance use and manage substance use disorders. Treatment may include assessment, counselling and behavioural therapies, medication-assisted treatment, withdrawal management, and support for co-occurring mental or physical health conditions. Effective treatment is typically person-centred and evidence-informed, and may be provided in outpatient, community, or residential settings. Treatment aims to improve health and functioning, reduce substance-related harms, and support individuals in moving toward recovery and long-term wellbeing.
Material Hardship, Perceived Stress, and Medication Adherence among Treatment-Experienced People Living with HIV in Rural Zambia
Rainier Masa, Gina Chowa
Introduction: The intersection of poverty and HIV/AIDS creates a cycle, with poverty increasing risk to HIV exposure and infection, and HIV/AIDS in turn heightening vulnerability to poverty. Further, economic...
UK Biobank: An Open Access Population-Based Prospective Study of 500,000 Participants
Jo Holliday, Thomas Littlejohns, Ligia Adamska, Cathie Sudlow, Nicola Doherty, Naomi Allen
Introduction: UK Biobank was created as an open-access resource for the investigation of the genetic, environmental and lifestyle determinants of a...
Prevention Programs for Eating Disorders and Obesity in Germany
Luise Adametz, Felicitas Richter, Julia Mühleck, Katharina Wick, Bernhard Strauß, Uwe Berger
Disordered eating and partial eating disorder (ED) syndromes are widespread in childhood and adolescence. They are associated with decreased...
Predittori della risposta al trattamento dopo la formazione sulla gestione dei genitori: fattori di bambino, contesto e terapia
Terje Gunnar Ogden, Kristine Amlund Hagen
Parent Management Training- il modello Oregon (PMTO) è stato introdotto come alternativa terapeutica alle famiglie sia nei servizi di assistenza all'infanzia che nelle cliniche ambulatoriali...
Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Is the Most Essential Intervention among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) to Achieve Reduction HIV Transmission through Pwid to Others in Myanmar
Rosie Myint, Wah Wah Lwin
Background: There is a sustained downward trend in HIV prevalence among the sentinel groups which include People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) reflecting the effectiveness of programme for safer sexual behaviors and...
Psychiatric Symptoms in Individuals Who Use Ketamine Versus Methamphetamine
Yanhui Liao
Introduction: Chronic use of both Ketamine (“K powder”) and methamphetamine (MA, “ice”) can induce psychiatric symptoms. This study aimed at exploring drug-induced psychiatric symptoms in chronic ketamine users and MA users.
...NIDA Humphrey Fellows Participate in ISSUP's Third Workshop
NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows from Virginia Commonwealth University participated in the Third Annual Meeting of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals. More than 3,000 participants attended the meeting for drug treatment...
Le linee guida pratiche dell'American Psychiatric Association per il trattamento farmacologico dei pazienti con disturbo da uso di alcol
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L'obiettivo di questa linea guida è migliorare la qualità delle cure e dei risultati del trattamento per i pazienti con disturbo da uso di alcol (AUD), come definito dal DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). La linea...
Universal School-Based Implementation of Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment to Reduce and Prevent Alcohol, Marijuana, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use
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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to reducing substance use in adolescents. An emerging literature shows the promise of school-based SBIRT. However, most school-based...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Managing Transformation
Key studies on the role of management and supervision in the treatment of problem drug use. Commentary asks, “Is there anything more instructive than *being* the patient?”, explores the role of patient choice and preferences in treatment...
Uso di sostanze, sonno e progettazione dell'intervento
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Sfondo: L'uso di alcol e altre droghe è associato a scarsa qualità e quantità del sonno, ma esiste una ricerca qualitativa limitata che esplora le esperienze di sonno dei consumatori di sostanze e pochi interventi psicosociali...
Iniziativa iberoamericana per i disturbi duali per migliorare i programmi di trattamento pubblico
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Introduzione: I disturbi duali (DD) sono definiti come la co-occorrenza di disturbi da uso di sostanze con altri disturbi psichiatrici nel corso della vita. La DD rappresenta una dimensione diagnostica con peculiarità cliniche...
Overburdened Mental Health Providers Thwart Police Push for Drug Treatment
This article highlights the overburdened health system in West Virginia, including a shortage of behavioral treatment professionals.
Le differenze sessuali nella diagnosi del disturbo da uso di cannabis hanno coinvolto ricoveri ospedalieri negli Stati Uniti
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Obiettivi: Lo studio ha esaminato le differenze sessuali nella tendenza e nelle caratteristiche cliniche del disturbo da uso di cannabis (CUD) La diagnosi ha coinvolto i ricoveri ospedalieri tra i pazienti adulti.
Metodi: Abbiamo...
Uso appropriato dei test antidroga nella medicina delle dipendenze cliniche
Scopo
Lo scopo dell'uso appropriato dei test antidroga nella medicina delle dipendenze cliniche è quello di fornire indicazioni sull'uso efficace dei test antidroga nell'identificazione , diagnosi, trattamento e promozione del recupero per...
Misuratori di qualità delle comunità terapeutiche per la dipendenza da sostanze
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Sfondo
In America Latina, i disturbi correlati alle sostanze sono altamente prevalenti e una delle strategie di trattamento sono le comunità terapeutiche (TC), tuttavia, in America Latina ci sono dati scarsi su queste strategie...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic: The ‘Forgotten’ Carers
One of our selection of hot topics on important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Both as a treatment resource for the patient and a group needing support in their own right, families affected by substance use are, claimed a UK...
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...
Rivedere la salute dell'inclusione: un programma di intervento per le popolazioni a rischio
Inclusion Health è un quadro d'azione che aiuta a trovare modi per migliorare la salute e il benessere dei gruppi socialmente esclusi. Queste popolazioni, che hanno in comune esperienze di vita avverse e fattori di rischio, come la povertà...