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Alcohol Interventions in Primary Care Settings: What Works, What Doesn’t and What's Next?
This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the U...
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...
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...
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...
ATTC White Paper: Оқушыларды денсаулық сақтаудың интеграцияланған жүйелерінде жұмыс істеуге дайындау
Жақында «Newtork» нашақорлық технологияларын трансферттеу орталығының (ATTC) ақ қағазы қазіргі уақытта денсаулық сақтау туралы заңдарға өзгерістер енгізу және ғылым саласындағы жетістіктер нәтижесінде субстанцияларды пайдаланудың алдын алу...
The Effects of Psychoactive Substances on Driving
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) has released a new report detailing possible effects of psychoactive prescription drugs while driving. The study was carried out with the effort to inform policy decisions aimed at reducing the...
EMCDDA емдеу стандарттары және үздік тәжірибе
Нашақорлықтың алдын алу, емдеу және әлеуметтік реинтеграция салаларында қандай жұмыс істейтінін (және не істемейтінін) анықтаңыз.
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Managing the Talking Route to Recovery
Fortnightly instalment of online course on alcohol treatment research starts with a study which concluded that “leaders have a cascading impact on their staff in ways other than through mandate”. Findings that post-training ‘coaching’ is...
Мінез-құлықтық дәрі-дәрмектерді емдеуді жүзеге асыру сапасы оның табысын талап етеді
Төтенше жағдайларды басқару (СМ) — уытқұмарлықтың бұзылуына кеңінен қолданылатын мінез-құлық терапиясы. Ол сеанстарға қатысқаны және тағайындалған дәрі-дәрмек курстарын ұстанғаны үшін, оның ішінде жағымды мінез-құлық үшін материалдық...
МСЖБ Есiрткi заттары жөнiндегi комиссияның 60-шы сессиясында
Естеріңізге сала кетейік, осы аптаның басында ХҚЖК Вена халықаралық орталығында есірткі заттары жөніндегі комиссияның 60-шы сессиясына қатысты.
Preventing and Treating Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued a new evidence-based guideline for combatting tobacco use by children and young adults aged 5 – 18, suggesting that physicians ought to have a more active role in the prevention...
Good Policy and Practice in Health Education
Booklet 10: Education sector responses to the use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs
The latest volume in the Good Policy and Practice in Health Education Series has been developed via international consultation between the United Nations...
Public Health Strategies to Prevent Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: CDC Grand Rounds
Public Health Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: The Talker in the Talking Route to Recovery
In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...
Can Drug Prevention Programmes Reduce Substance Use by Participants’ Friends?
Besides reducing substance use between its participants one prevention programme also reduced drug use among the friends of those who took part.
АА шынымен сусындарды тоқтатуға көмектесе ме?
12 сатылы стипендиаттар пациенттерді емдеуден қауіпсіз шығаруға ұмтыла отырып, кішірейген ресурстарды татуластыруға мүмкіндік береді. АА-ның әсерін әшкерелейтін өзін-өзі іріктеу біржақтылығын есепке ала отырып, АҚШ сынақтарының бұл синтезі...
Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Substance Use Disorders
This guideline represents a significant step toward improving the treatment and management of patients with substance use disorders (SUD) in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD). As with other clinical...
XR-Naltrexone: A Step-by-Step Guide
The Providers' Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment (PCSS-MAT) experts have recently created a virtual step-by-step XR-Naltrexone User Guide to assist you in your practice in treating opioid use disorder (OUD). XR...
