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This guide assists providers in offering treatment to women living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initial use and specific treatment issues and strategies.

This webinar focuses on the issue of self-care for addiction professionals and was delivered by ICUDDR Deputy Director Cary Hopkins Eyles.

Many of us are drawn to work in the field of substance use disorders due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these can be great assets, they can also be detrimental to us personally.

In this webinar, Cary explains how to identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like.

Cary has worked in the field of substance use disorders for 18 years. She is...

According to data published by Statistics Finland, the number of drug-related deaths in one year has increased by 25% in 2018.

Causes of death included accidental poisonings from multiple substances, deaths caused by long-term drug use, and drugs used to commit suicide.

The increase in drug-related deaths was observed in all age groups but, especially, in the 20–29 group.

It was noted that in Finland, drug-related deaths are concentrated within younger age groups compared to the European average.

From the 2nd of March, Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol will come into effect in Wales. 

The policy, which has shown positive outcomes in Scotland, aims to tackle alcohol-related harm and death.

MUP is designed to reduce the amount of low cost, high strength products.

Although the law enabling the Welsh Government to set a minimum unit price was passed on 9 August 2018, there have been delays to the introduction of MUP due to objections from Portugal, who argued it breached European free trade law by discriminating against imported alcohol products.

An awareness campaign, aimed at...

خلاصه

این گزارش آخرین یافته ها را در مورد وضعیت اضطراری بیمارستانی مرتبط با مواد مخدر از شبکه ای از بیمارستان های سنتینل در سراسر اروپا ارائه می دهد.

در 4 سال اول پروژه تقریبا 24000 نمایش اضطراری در 32 بیمارستان سنتینل ثبت شده است. داده ها نشان می دهد که موادی که بیشتر در ارائه سمیت حاد مواد مخدر نقش دارند شامل هروئین، کوکائین و حشیش است. داروهای تجویزی اغلب گزارش شده است. این گزارش همچنین می اندازد نور در جنبه های دیگر از شرایط اضطراری مربوط به مواد مخدر مانند ویژگی های بالینی, تنوع جغرافیایی, نتایج, جمعیت شناسی و الگوهای زمانی.

In July 2019, the UK Government set out its ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030. Government guidelines say the next steps should have been announced by 6th January 2020, but it has yet to do so.

Several key charities, including ASH, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Royal College of Physicians, the British Medical Association, the British Lung Foundation, and the Royal Society for Public Health, has called on the UK government to lay out the next steps in order to reach their target.

The charities have put forward a Roadmap to a Smokefree 2030, as a suggestion as to...

افزایش مصرف الکل و آسیب های مربوط به الکل در بریتانیا در دهه های اخیر دست در دست با افزایش استطاعت از الکل رفته است. 

حداقل قیمت گذاری واحد (تعیین حداقل قیمت که در زیر آن یک واحد از الکل از نظر قانونی نمی تواند به فروش می رسد) توسط پارلمان اسکاتلند در سال 2012 تایید شد.

این گزارش فراهم می کند تجزیه و تحلیل خارج از تجارت داده های فروش الکل برای دوره 12 ماه از زمان اجرای حداقل قیمت گذاری واحد (MUP) در اسکاتلند.

این گزارش ، نوشته شده توسط بیمه خدمات درمانی اسکاتلند ، فراهم می کند تجزیه و تحلیل توصیفی از :

• حجم الکل خالص فروخته شده در هر بزرگسال در اسکاتلند هر دو قبل و بعد از MUP اجرا شد
• درص...