In somatic health care settings, interdisciplinary collaborations (where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are considered to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary...
Aftercare programs for people with substance use disorders (PWSUD) are frequently challenged with a number of overlapping obstacles, including uncertain policy consequences and a lack of resources. Despite demographic variety...
Mitos e verdades sobre o Cigarro Eletrônico e os dispositivos Eletrônicos para Fumar
A Organização Mundial da Saúde – OMS – considera o tabagismo um importante problema de saúde pública e uma das principais causas de morte passíveis de...
Importance Overdose is one of the leading causes of death in the US; however, surveillance data lag considerably from medical examiner determination of the death to reporting in national surveillance reports.
Objective To...
Importance Fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses are at record levels, and emergency department (ED) visits may be an opportune time to intervene. Peer-led models of care are increasingly common; however, little is known about...
Importance The landscape of tobacco use is changing. However, information about the association between early-age tobacco use and cognitive performances is limited, especially for emerging tobacco products such as electronic...
Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUDs), including methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone, decrease mortality and morbidity for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Buprenorphine and methadone have the...
The WHO European Region has some of the highest levels of alcohol consumption and corresponding rates of alcohol-related harm in the world. Pricing policies and taxation are among the most effective measures that policy-makers...
In this webinar, the speakers discuss the role of peer support in treatment: the latest on research and practice.
In this webinar, the speakers take a look at the social and economic factors influencing addiction (particularly injecting drug use), and its impact on particularly disadvantaged groups, such as young people transitioning from out of home...
In this webinar, the speakers take a look at substance use among young people, focusing on the 'crossover' of children at the nexus of the youth justice and child protection systems, and the implications of caregiver substance abuse in...
Objective: This webinar marks the official launch of the EMCDDA’s foresight toolkit for the drugs field entitled How to run a trends workshop in the drugs field. The event also aims to promote a foresight approach and increase foresight...
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders (SUDs) worldwide, and healthcare systems have reorganized their services in response to the pandemic.
Methods: One week after...
ISSUP Chile presented a webinar focused on an intercultural approach to the consumption of alcohol and other drugs, and its implications for the development of public policies.
Reflection and understanding of the phenomenon of alcohol...
Importance Cigarette smoking and risky alcohol consumption co-occur and are undertreated. Nicotine receptor partial agonists and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) treat smoking but are unproven for alcohol, and clinical trials...
At its 62nd session in March 2019 the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) adopted by consensus the Ministerial Declaration entitled “Strengthening Our Actions at the National, Regional and International Levels to Accelerate the...
Dear colleagues of ISSUP,
We invite you to consult the International Journal of Addiction Research (RIIAD). In this edition you will find articles such as "A look at genetics and epigenetics in substance addiction", "Vision-construction...
Summary
Substance use disorder (SUD) affects the relationship and care of children, leading to abusive behaviors. The parent-child relationship may improve with the development of parental skills (PC) in users of TUS treatment programs...
