All Resources for 'Medical, Clinical & Healthcare Services'

Alcohol and self-harm: A qualitative study

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Mental Health

Executive Summary

This qualitative study was commissioned by Alcohol Change UK in Wales to explore how and why alcohol and self-harm are related, and how alcohol, self-harm, and related services, are experienced and understood. Eleven...

Deconstructing Addiction

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Website
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

This resource has been initiated by Anthony Corballis in conjunction with Dulwich Centre Publications. You’ll find here a range of writings about addiction and ways of responding to alcohol and other drug use.

Periods of altered risk for non-fatal drug overdose

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

The risk of an individual overdosing is influenced by a range of, often overlapping circumstances. Factors such as incarceration, mental and physical health conditions, and the treatments prescribed for these conditions can all affect the...

Overdose recognition and management: Reading list

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Reading List
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

According to the World Health Organisation, around half a million deaths each year are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids, with more than 30% of those deaths caused by overdose. Signs, symptoms...

Substance Use in Women Deprived of Liberty: A General Approach and Recent Evidence

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ISSUP Webinar
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Addiction
Populations
Women
Mental Health

ISSUP Argentina held a webinar presenting a general initial framework and evidence on the characterization and approach of problematic substance use in the population of women deprived of liberty.

The webinar took place on Tuesday, October...

Identifying content-based engagement patterns in a smoking cessation website and associations with user characteristics and cessation outcomes: a sequence and cluster analysis

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Quality Assurance
Theories and Science

Tobacco smoking is the greatest cause of sickness and early death worldwide, with 8 million people dying each year from a smoking-related condition. The use of pharmaceutical or behavioural assistance improves smokers' chances of quitting...

Reprint of: Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Biotechnological treatment, including addiction treatment, is the way of the future. Researchers and pharmaceutical companies praise depot injections, agonist/antagonist implants, deep brain stimulation, and hapten conjugate vaccines as...

Latin American Journal of Mental Health and Therapeutic Communities- Call for Papers

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Mental Health

The Latin American Journal of Mental Health and Therapeutic Communities (RELASMECT) is an initiative that gather professionals from all over Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States, focused on the creation and...

Ecolink Institute successfully completes its 3rd Batch on UTC training

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

Ecolink Institute successfully completes its 3rd Batch on UTC training

Mangalore: Ecolink Institute of Well-being, an India based training Institute who pioneered online live training of the Universal Treatment Curriculum successfully...

Ecolink Institute opens Alumni Association of UTC students

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

Ecolink Institute opens Alumni Association of UTC students

The students of the Universal Treatment Curriculum on Substance Use Disorder under the Ecolink Institute have opened an International Alumni Association to strengthen and promote...

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