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Treatment Settings
Various treatment formats, either in a live-in facility or through regular visits to a clinic, are designed for ongoing support, to help maintain recovery, and to prevent relapse.
Smartphone Ownership among US Adult Cigarette Smokers
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Background: Despite increasing interest in smartphone apps as a platform for delivery of tobacco cessation interventions, no previous studies have evaluated the prevalence and characteristics of smokers who can access smartphone...
Worrying Substance Use Trends among over 50s
In 2011, the Royal College of Psychiatrists advised that over 50s should not exceed more than 11 units of alcohol a week, compared with 14 for the rest of the adult population, due to age-related physiological and metabolic changes.
Since...
Articolo di revisione: Approfondimenti recenti sul processo decisionale clinico in caso di epatite alcolica grave
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L'epatite alcolica è una grave manifestazione acuta di malattia epatica alcolica con un'alta mortalità. La gestione dei pazienti con questa condizione è stata oggetto di controversie per molti anni; tuttavia, recenti studi...
Altri motivi per muoversi: esercizio nel trattamento dei disturbi da uso di alcol
L'esercizio fisico è ampiamente considerato come "medicina" per la prevenzione e il trattamento di una miriade di condizioni di salute somatiche. Gli studi dimostrano anche che l'esercizio fisico è efficace nel trattamento dei disturbi...
Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
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Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
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...
¿Es posible una lucha real?
Geraldine González Willim es experta en la prevención y el tratamiento de adicciones de drogas legales o ilegales. En esta entrevista, detalla sobre los planes de acción aplicables al Paraguay para luchar contra un flagelo que cada día...
Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
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Background
There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
Gli effetti della cannabis tra gli adulti con dolore cronico e una panoramica dei danni generali
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La cannabis è sempre più disponibile per il trattamento del dolore cronico, ma la sua efficacia rimane incerta.
Scopo: Rivedere i benefici dei preparati di cannabis a base vegetale per il trattamento del dolore cronico negli...
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...
Dotare i lavoratori delle farmacie comunitarie come agenti per il cambiamento del comportamento sanitario
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Obiettivo: Sviluppare un intervento complesso per il personale della farmacia della comunità per promuovere l'adozione di servizi per smettere di fumare e aumentare i tassi di abbandono.
Disegno: Seguendo il quadro del Medical...
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...
Use and Knowledge of Contraceptive Methods by Patients in Two Substance Use Disorders Treatment Centers in Paris
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Background
Studies on contraceptive use by patients with substance use disorders (SUD) show a concerning low use of contraception. Mainly conducted in USA, they could be irrelevant to patients attending European SUD treatment...
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:
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Decisions in Recovery: Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
This handbook provides guidance on using the web-based, multimedia tool 'Decisions in Recovery: Medications for Opioid Addiction'. This handbook and the web-based tool offer information about medication-assisted treatment. Both resources...
Efficacia Banca Alcol Trattamento Matrice 2017
È tempo di un riassunto dell'aggiornamento 2017 della matrice del trattamento dell'alcol. Pubblicati quindicinalmente, i commenti sulle 25 cellule e sui "morsi" si sono accumulati in un corso che riflette sulla ricerca più significativa...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Attuazione e valutazione di un intervento per i bambini in Afghanistan
Il presente studio ha esaminato l'impatto di un nuovo intervento per i bambini a rischio di uso di sostanze o di utilizzo attivo di sostanze che è stato fornito a 783 bambini tra i 4 ei 18 anni di età in Afghanistan. Hanno ricevuto il...
Morphine versus Methadone Treatment for Neonatal Withdrawal and Impact on Early Infant Development
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Objective: Compare developmental outcomes in infants treated with morphine versus methadone.
Method: Retrospective chart review of newborns identified through use of ICD-9 code for neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). Thirty-six...