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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.
European Drug Report 2017
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Community Convening Guide: Substance Use Prevention, Screening, and Early Intervention
A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...
Il costo sociale del disturbo da uso di eroina negli Stati Uniti
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Obiettivo
Il consumo di eroina negli Stati Uniti ha raggiunto proporzioni epidemiche. L'obiettivo di questo documento è stimare il costo sociale annuale del disturbo da uso di eroina negli Stati Uniti in dollari USA 2015.
Metodi
...A Growing Issue: An Increased Number Are Entering Drug Treatment for Cannabis Use Across Europe
New research published in the journal European Addiction Research paints a picture of drug treatment services for cannabis-related problems between 2003 – 2014 across 22 European countries.
Notably, it suggests that, on the whole, during...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing Coerced Alcohol Treatment
Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...
Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
Consumo di stupefacenti ad alto rischio e nuove sostanze psicoattive
"Consumo di droghe ad alto rischio e nuove sostanze psicoattive", una nuova relazione dell'Osservatorio europeo delle droghe e delle tossicodipendenze (OEDT), esamina l'emergere di forme più problematiche di consumo di nuove sostanze...
Per chi funziona il trattamento farmacologico basato sulla prigione? Risultati di un esperimento randomizzato
Per la prima volta in un contesto carcerario, uno studio randomizzato ha rigorosamente confrontato il trattamento intensivo della comunità terapeutica residenziale con la consulenza ambulatoriale. Confondendo le aspettative, la prigione...
Trattamento per il disturbo da uso di oppioidi: cosa c'è da imparare?
Questo uso improprio di oppioidi da prescrizione è una delle principali sfide per la salute pubblica. La buprenorfina-naloxone (bup-nx) è tipicamente usata per trattare i disturbi da uso di oppioidi. Tuttavia, la sperimentazione clinica del...
Un possibile nuovo trattamento per i disturbi dell'alcol?
Una nuova ricerca pubblicata sulla rivista Biological Psychiartry indica un nuovo modo per il trattamento dell'alcolismo. Ciò cercherebbe di ridurre la motivazione a bere invece di alterare gli effetti dell'alcol stesso. In effetti, lo...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
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...
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