Substance Use Disorder

Canadian Guidelines on Alcohol Use Disorder Among Older Adults

Scientific article

23 March 2020

Open Access article: Abstract Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is an increasingly common, under-recognized, and under-treated health concern in older adults. Its prevalence is expected to reach unprecedented levels as the Canadian...

Starting the Conversation – Substance Use Disorders and Intimate Partner Violence

25 March 2021

Washington DC

United States

Register now: https://umsystem.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HrsigrniS1SD7f6A1EROoA

Thursday, March 25, 2021 01:00 PM (EST, Washington, DC time)

Building Strength and Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Focus on Parents with Substance Use Disorders

18 December 2020

Online

Join ICUDDR on Friday Dec 18th at 12 noon EST for a Twitter chat with esteemed researcher, Professor, and Executive Director of the UNC Horizons Program, Hendrée E. Jones, PhD about helping parents with SUDs cope during the COVID19 pandemic.

Tag questions and comments with #ParentingSUD.

Sex and Gender Effects in Recovery From Alcohol Use Disorder

Scientific article

19 November 2020

The current article provides a summary of biopsychosocial gender differences in alcohol use disorder (AUD), then reviews existing literature on gender differences in treatment access, retention, outcomes, and longer-term recovery. Among...

Trajectories of psychological distress during recovery from polysubstance use disorder

Scientific article

11 March 2020

Abstract Introduction: Polysubstance use is a prevalent substance use pattern with adverse effects on psychological distress and diminished treatment outcomes. Although polysubstance use often dominates clinical practice, the trajectories...

The Americans with Disabilities Act: SUDs and Barriers to Treatment and Recovery

27 May 2020

Webinar

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Should Addiction Counselors Disclose They Are in Recovery?

Website

Addiction therapy is often a personal and complex thing, which relies on interaction, bonding, and communication between counselors and their patients. This often happens because many of the people choosing to become addiction counselors...

Readiness to Change among Involuntarily and Voluntarily Admitted Patients with Substance Use Disorders

Scientific article

6 November 2019

Abstract Background Health care workers in the addiction field have long emphasised the importance of a patient’s motivation on the outcome of treatments for substance use disorders (SUDs). Many patients entering treatment are not yet ready...

Experts from Côte d'Ivoire Attend a Study Tour in Morocco

News

From 6 to 12 October 2019, as part of the UNODC - PTRS / GLOK32 activities to guide the introduction of assisted pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence, 10 representatives, policy makers and treatment experts, and 2 psychiatrists...

Pharmacotherapy for Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Use Disorder — A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Scientific article

24 September 2019

This meta-analysis of research on medication to treat methamphetamine use disorder finds that only one medication, methylphenidate, has any efficacy in reducing use.

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