‘High-risk drug use and new psychoactive substances’, a new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), takes a look at the emergence of more problematic forms of new psychoactive substance use among a...
For the first time in a prison setting, a randomised trial has rigorously compared intensive residential therapeutic community treatment to outpatient counselling. Confounding expectations, the US prison for problem drug users which hosted...
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
There remain many unanswered questions regarding the health effects of e-cigarettes. A new study published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco suggests that there may be a link between e-cigarette use among university students and depression...
Жильберто Герра, начальник Сектора профилактики наркомании и здравоохранения Управления Организации Объединенных Наций по наркотикам и преступности (УНП ООН), открывает совещание на тему "Технические консультации по обновлению стандартов...
New research published in the journal Biological Psychiartry points to a novel way for the treatment of alcoholism. This would look to reduce motivation for drinking instead of altering the effects of alcohol, itself. Indeed, the study...
Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
Клетка в матрице лечения алкоголизма. В крайней форме название ставит дилемму для сотрудников по лечению алкоголизма, которые также могут (рассматриваться как) работать на органы, чья основная роль заключается в контроле или наказании...
