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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.
Risk of Violence in Drug Rehabilitation Centers
Abstract
Background
In 2009, Mexico reformed its health law to partially decriminalize drug possession considered for personal use and to increase mandatory referrals to certified drug rehabilitation centers in lieu of incarceration...
Clinical practice guidelines: treatment of alcohol withdrawal, 2 Edition
This document responds to the need to have tools that are standardized for the comprehensive management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in clinical practice. The working group that developed this document was based on the clinical practice...
The Health and Social Effects of Nonmedical Cannabis Use
Foreword
Cannabis is globally the most commonly used psychoactive substance under international control. In 2013, an estimated 181.8 million people aged 15-64 years used cannabis for nonmedical purposes globally (UNODC, 2015). There is an...
Reduction of Mortality Following Better Detection of Hypertension and Alcohol Problems in Primary Health Care in Spain
Abstract
Through a simulation study, we estimated the potential effects of better detection of hypertension and improved screening for alcohol problems with subsequent interventions. Results showed that if 50% of Spanish males between 40...
Reduction of mortality through improved detection of high blood pressure and problems with alcohol in primary health care in Spain
Overview
The potential benefits that can lead to an improvement in the detection and treatment of high blood pressure and alcohol-related problems are studied through a simulation. The results show that if Spanish 50% of men between 40 and...
Contribution of Alcohol Use Disorders to the Burden of Dementia in France 2008–13
Summary
Background
Dementia is a prevalent condition, affecting 5–7% of people aged 60 years and older, and a leading cause of disability in people aged 60 years and older globally. We aimed to examine the association between alcohol use...
Women and drug treatment
Guide to clinical advice for treatment and rehabilitation programs in drugs in specific population of adult women.
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Is Smoking a Risk Factor for Tinnitus? A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Estimation of the Population Attributable Risk in Germany
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Objective: To assess the epidemiological association of smoking status and tinnitus with a systematic review and meta-analysis and to estimate the population attributable risk in Germany.
Data sources: A systematic literature...
Certification of Addiction Professionals in Africa: An Overview of the Process in Kenya
Abstract
This paper focuses on Kenya’s course of action to address the drug problem, specifically, treatment and rehabilitation of persons with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). Treatment and rehabilitation of persons with SUDs was formally...
Extent and Patterns of Drug Use among Persons with Disabilities in Kenya
Abstract
Background: Although some data existed suggesting that there was high prevalence of drug use among the general population in Kenya with 39-48% of 15-65 year olds having used alcohol and at least one other substance, there was a...
Supervised Dosing with a Long-Acting Opioid Medication in the Management of Opioid Dependence
Trials challenge the need for the widely accepted policy of making opioid-dependent patients take their methadone or other opioid substitutes at the clinic or pharmacy, but ‘no difference’ findings may be due to the limitations of the...
Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a new report Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda.
The document has been prepared by the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Workgroup which was formed in...
The Winding Road to Relapse: Forging a New Understanding of Cue-Induced Reinstatement Models and their Associated Neural Mechanisms
In drug addiction, cues previously associated with drug use can produce craving and frequently trigger the resumption of drug taking in individuals vulnerable to relapse. Environmental stimuli associated with drugs or natural reinforcers...
Alcohol and Drugs Prevention, Treatment and Recovery: Why Invest?
Estimates show that in the UK the social and economic costs of alcohol related harm amount to £21.5bn, while harm from illicit drug use costs £10.7bn. These include costs associated with deaths, the NHS, crime and, in the case of alcohol...
A Pocket Guide: investigation of the abuse of alcohol and a brief intervention
This Pocket Guide was summarized Guide 34 pages of the NIAAA, helping patients who drink too much: A guide clinical. Materials include:
- Educational brochures for patients
- Already formatted progress notes
- Animated slideshow for...
Guide for health care professionals - helping patients who drink too much
Guide aimed at professionals of health to work with people from drinking alcohol in excess
This guide has been written for primary care health and mental health professionals. It has been produced by the National Institute on the Alcohol...
Dual Disorders in Individuals under Treatment for both Alcohol and Cocaine
Abstract
Introduction: Descriptive data about co-occurrence of alcohol and cocaine consumption is scarce, despite its important prevalence. Dual disorders show high prevalence in clinical samples, and patients report worse evolution and...
Understanding Patients’ Process to Use Medical Marijuana: A Southern New Jersey Community Engagement Project
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Given the necessity to better understand the process patients need to go through in order to seek treatment via medical marijuana, this study investigates this process to better understand this phenomenon. Specifically, Compassion...
Estimating Treatment Coverage for People with Substance Use Disorders: An Analysis of Data from the World Mental Health Surveys
Abstract
Substance use is a major cause of disability globally. This has been recognized in the recent United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in which treatment coverage for substance use disorders is identified as one of the...
A Study of Alcohol Use Pattern among Married Men in Rural Tamil Nadu, India - Policy Implications
Abstract
Alcohol consumption pattern in India varies remarkably from many other countries. In India, most men are abstainers (70% to 90%) while less than 2% of women use alcohol. However, the men who use alcohol tend to drink at hazardous...