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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.
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Twelfth Session)
ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviours: Targeting Adolescents in Nigeria.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain...
World “NO Tobacco Day”, Youth of Allied Health Sciences Presented A Variety Of Projects At The University Of Lahore
On May 31, 2022, the world celebrates “NO Tobacco Day”. To honor this day, many events take place every year. The effects of smoking tobacco and the millions of deaths that take place, as a result, are widely known. Cancer, stroke...
Webinar on psychological flexibility for addictive behaviours
On June 3 Friday evening, 2022, a webinar was held to educate youth, students and professionals about a new clinical construct called Psychological Flexibility. The importance of this ability was elaborated in the context of managing...
Addiction Severity Index (ASI) Assessment Interview Learning Video (Part III).
ASI Interview Part III
This video is intended as a learning tool for practicing assessment interview skills by using ASI adapted from UTC on course 5: Intake, Screening Assessment, Treatment Plan, and Documentation for Addiction...
The influence of poly-drug use patterns on the association between opioid agonist treatment engagement and injecting initiation assistance
Abstract
Background
Evidence suggests people who inject drugs (PWID) prescribed opioid agonist treatment (OAT) are less likely to provide injection drug use (IDU) initiation assistance. We investigated the association between OAT...
Anticancer effects of disulfiram: a systematic review of in vitro, animal, and human studies
Abstract
Background and objectives
Cancer morbidity and mortality rates remain high, and thus, at present, considerable efforts are focused on finding drugs with higher sensitivity against tumor cells and fewer side effects. Disulfiram...
Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development
Abstract
The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000 people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects on drug-use behavior create dynamic...
Grants for private drug treatment and rehabilitation centers in Bangladesh
To improve the quality of drug treatment and rehabilitation services, for the third time, the Government of Bangladesh has provided grants to private drug treatment and rehabilitation centers across the country.
Moreover, the government...
Drug treatment management and mental health care training manual review workshop held
Proper guidelines for professionals are essential in providing quality services. With this in mind, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector organized a day-long consultation workshop on June 2, 2022, under the JPRPHRPC project supported by GIZ...
Comparison of Medical Cannabis Use Reported on a Confidential Survey vs Documented in the Electronic Health Record Among Primary Care Patients
Abstract
Importance Patients who use cannabis for medical reasons may benefit from discussions with clinicians about health risks of cannabis and evidence-based treatment alternatives. However, little is known about the prevalence of...
Association Between Smoking History and Overall Survival in Patients Receiving Pembrolizumab for First-Line Treatment of Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer
Abstract
Importance There is a need to tailor treatments to patients who are most likely to derive the greatest benefit from them to improve patient outcomes and enhance cost-effectiveness of cancer therapies.
Objective To compare...
Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes
Background
Opioid overdose remains a public health crisis in diverse communities. Between 2019 and 2020, there was an almost 40% increase in drug fatalities primarily due to opioid analogues of both stimulants and opioids. Medications for...
Patient perspectives on depot buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction – a qualitative interview study
Background
Recently developed buprenorphine depot injections have the potential to reduce risk for diversion and misuse, and to increase adherence with fewer visits for supervised intake. However, it is unclear how patients perceive this...
A qualitative study exploring how young people perceive and experience substance use services in British Columbia, Canada
Background
Substance use among youth (ages 12–24) is troublesome given the increasing risk of harms associated. Even more so, substance use services are largely under utilised among youth, most only accessing support when in crisis. Few...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Substance Use Disorders: From Theory to Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools in...
Stimulants A Focus on Effective Treatment Interventions and Recovery Supports
During this webinar you will learn how to:
-Discuss research findings related to brain recovery following the use of stimulants.
-Recall evidence-based behavioural interventions found to be effective in treating people with a stimulant...
Stress, Relationships, & Substance Use Disorders An Introduction to Neuroscience Informed Counseling
During this webinar you will learn how to:
- Discuss the foundations for incorporating neuroscience into clinical practice
- Describe a neuroscience informed model of SUD treatment
- Apply a model of stress, relationship, and SUD
Stress, Relationships, and Substance Use Disorders Clinical Applications
This workshop is Part 2 of a set of presentations on the integration of neuroscience with SUD treatment. Part 1 laid a foundation for ethical practice. Part 2 describes the application of a metaphoric model of neuroscience-informed...
Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments of opioid use disorder in a national cohort
Abstract
Aim
To investigate the real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments (buprenorphine, methadone) of opioid use disorder (OUD).
Design
A nation-wide, register-based cohort study.
Setting
Sweden.
Participants
All...
Toward a Theory of Motivational Interviewing
Abstract
The widely-disseminated clinical method of motivational interviewing (MI) arose through a convergence of science and practice. Beyond a large base of clinical trials, advances have been made toward “looking under the hood” of MI...