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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.
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What If the Therapist ... Is Also the Jailer?
A cell in the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. In an extreme form, the title poses the dilemma for alcohol treatment staff who may also be (seen as) working for authorities whose main role is to control or punish the ‘client’ or who may be...
Tecnologia e smettere di fumare: le e-mail personalizzate sono efficaci per gli aspiranti smettere?
Un nuovo studio dell'American Cancer Society pubblicato sulla rivista Tobacco Control suggerisce che ricevere regolarmente e-mail personalizzate con suggerimenti per smettere tra le altre informazioni potrebbe essere efficace nel ridurre il...
Altri trattamenti sul ponte per il disturbo da uso di alcol
Sono passati tredici anni dall'ultima volta che la Food and Drug Administration (FDA) degli Stati Uniti ha approvato un nuovo farmaco per aiutare i milioni di persone della nazione con disturbo da uso di alcol (AUD) a smettere o moderare il...
Do α2-Adrenergic Agonists Decrease the Symptoms Associated With Opioid Withdrawal?
Study Selection
This systematic review included randomized controlled clinical trials that compared the administration of an α2-adernergic agonist with other interventions such as placebo or methadone to reduce symptoms of opioid...
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Uso di Ritalin non medicinale: studio migliorato, ma prendendo una possibilità
Una nuova ricerca pubblicata sul Journal of Neural Transmission evidenzia una serie di potenziali effetti collaterali negativi derivanti dall'uso del farmaco stimolante Ritalin senza prescrizione medica. Ritalin (metilfenidato) è...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment not for the Patient but for the Community
The final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix enters the domain of treatment organised not primarily for the patient, but to safeguard the wider community, encountering what seems a core contradiction depicted on the cover of WHO guidance...
Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids: A Free Online Training Course
A free online training course from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now available.
The course addresses the CDC recommendations with respect to the prescription of opioids for chronic pain as well as their treatment...
Trattamento degli alcolisti Skid-Row con Disulfiram
Condotto nel 1962 e nel 1963 ad Atlanta negli Stati Uniti, l'articolo in primo piano sembra il primo ad aver testato se i trasgressori che bevono problemi prenderanno una droga che impone l'astinenza generando reazioni deterrenti all'alcol...
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...
Incidenza e politiche statali di HCV relative ai servizi di prevenzione e trattamento dell'HCV per le persone che si iniettano droghe - Stati Uniti, 2015-2016
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Cosa si sa già di questo argomento?
Gli Stati Uniti hanno registrato un forte aumento dell'incidenza del virus dell'epatite C (HCV) che può essere attribuito all'uso di droghe per iniezione. Alcuni stati hanno utilizzato leggi...
ATTC White Paper: Preparing Students to Work in Integrated Health Care Systems
A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...
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...
Ora disponibile: Pacchetto EFSQ (European Facility Survey Questionnaire)
L'European Facility Survey Questionnaire (EFSQ) può essere utilizzato per la raccolta di dati in qualsiasi paese da coloro che desiderano indagare sulle strutture che forniscono interventi per i tossicodipendenti.
Il suo scopo è quello di...
Aggression Linked to Substance Use
New Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has found that people with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) – a condition with a significant genetic component characterised by regular outbursts of aggression, whether...
So What’s the Knowledge Share All About?
ISSUP promotes effective and evidence-based practice through the exchange of knowledge on its website.
Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 4: The Talking Route to Recovery
The Talking Route to Recovery
Time to consolidate the lessons of last five instalments of the online course on alcohol treatment research. Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this row is about therapies in...
What Is There to Know About Psychosocial Interventions in Drug Treatment?
Psychosocial interventions are psychological or social interventions used to tackle issues related to substance abuse and behavioural addictions. They can be employed to identify and treat problems, as well as to assist with user...
Global Smoking Rates on Decline Thanks to Demand-Reduction Measures
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...