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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.
Relevance of research on public drug policy and its impact on national programs
Risks and Harms Associated with the Nonmedical Use of Benzodiazepines in the Unregulated Drug Supply in Canada
Summary
Substance use risks are significantly higher for people who obtain drugs on the unregulated market as there is no quality control and drug contents are unpredictable. This lack of predictability has increased during the COVID-19...
Introducing compassion focused therapy
Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is based on the evolutionary, functional analysis of basic social motivational systems (e.g., to exist within groups and care for kin) and emotional systems (e.g., to respond to threats, seek out contentment...
UNODC supports Practitioners in Community-Based Settings
The South Sumatra province has been ranked as the second largest province with people who use drugs, with a prevalence of 5% which approximately corresponds to 326,694 people, and methamphetamine is still the most popular drug of choice in...
EMCDDA launches PLATO e-learning platform and virtual community of practice
PLATO, a multilingual integrated platform, is designed to facilitate online training, e-learning and discussion through a virtual community of practice (VCP).
At present, PLATO hosts the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC), a programme...
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Tenth Session)
Strong commitment in Pakistan towards quality assurance in line with the UNODC-WHO International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
UNODC Pakistan, together with support from the Ministry of Narcotics, the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and generous funding support from the US...
Barriers to Support for People Experiencing Problem Substance Use and Homelessness
Activated Threat Systems: The Intersection of Homelessness, Trauma, and Substance Use
UTC-1 Training by Nishan Rehab Pakistan, Jan 6,7,8, 2022 at Multan, Pakistan
“Training of Addiction Professionals for Pakistan Addiction Treatment Practitioners”
January 6, 7 & 8th, 2022
Multan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Description:
- Training Name: Training of Addiction Professionals for Pakistan
- L...
Is students’ drug testing the solution to school riots?
The torching of schools by students has become a regular occurrence in Kenya over the past two decades. This has resulted to destruction of property, disruption of the school calendar and unfortunately loss of innocent lives. Last year...
UNODC supports 28 health care providers from all 14 regions in Senegal with a training on treatment and care of people who inject drugs in Senegal
Since December 2014, methadone maintenance treatment is available at the Centre de Prise en Charge Intégrée des Addictions à Dakar, Senegal (CEPIAD). This center, located within the Centre Hospitalier National Universitaire de Fann, allows...
Competencies of a Graduate of the Bachelor's Study Programme in Addictology: Content Analysis of the Syllabi in the 2018/2019 Academic Year
Abstract
Background: Addictology is a transdisciplinary field dealing with the treatment andprevention of addictions. As yet the field does not have a document describing the competencies of graduates of its dedicated academic programme...
Addiction Conference 2021 Report
Czech National Conference on Illegal Addictive Substances 2021
The National Conference on Illegal Addictive Substances 2021 was organized by the Secretariat of the Government Council for the Coordination of Drug Policy - the Drug Policy Department of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic...
Internet-based therapy versus face-to-face therapy for alcohol use disorder, a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial.
Three days of online training on Assisted Pharmacological Treatment of Opioid Dependence in Côte d'Ivoire
As part of efforts to improve the quality of and access to evidence-based treatment and care services for people with drug use disorders and in support of the recent official launch of the methadone pilot programme in Côte d'Ivoire, UNODC...
Health, Economic and Educational Trajectory Research in the Processes of Addiction Research
Dear readers,
This issue of the journal presents many interesting articles on various topics related to addiction. Mutual sign of research studies, despite their different thematic focus, is to show how important is to examine the...
New Determinants of Addictions’ Creation and Development in Changed Social Conditions
EDITORIAL
Dear readers,
This issue of the journal Addictology offers you many interesting articles on addiction, while each article’s research area is very specific. Authors examine various aspects of addiction in connection with...
Global Family Systems: Psychosocial Resilience during Covid-19
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