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Consequences of Tobacco Use (Gutka)

By Haider Ali

Tobacco is frequently being used in two ways. Some people use smoke tobacco by using cigarette/ hukka, whereas some chew tobacco (gutka). Both methods of using tobacco are harmful for...

Drug Demand Reduction

By Grainne Kenny

An estimated 200 million people, or 5% of the global population aged between 15-64yrs have used illicit drugs at least once in the past year. Britain and Ireland have the highest number of drug and...

Мифы о злоупотреблении наркотиками

Хайдер Али

Люди придерживались разных мифов о проблемах  злоупотребления наркотиками. Некоторые мифы связаны с культурой или традицией, некоторые считаются требованием ситуации, а некоторые из них...

The Society for the Study of Addiction has uploaded the posters that researchers and students presented at the SSA Annual Conference 2019.

Poster categories:

• Research, service evaluation and audit
• Student-led Research

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are highly stressful events or situations that happen during childhood and/or adolescence.

Evidence suggests strong links between ACEs and a wide range of health and social problems across the lifespan...

Emotional Contagion. Have you ever been in a bad mood and all of a sudden it seems like everyone around you is in a bad mood, too? Do you feel that your emotions and mood can be “caught” by others? Psychology says emotional contagion is the...

Change Talk

When I talk with people, I hear various degrees of what MI calls “change talk.”

As described here, the types of change talk include:

• Desire: Why would you want to make this change?
• Ability: How would you do it if you...

1) PRECONTEMPLATION STAGE

“It isn’t that we cannot see the solution. It’s that we cannot see the problem.”

Precontemplators usually show up in therapy because of pressures from others… spouses, employers, parents, and courts… Resist...

In psychotherapy, a dual relationship occurs when a therapist has a second, significantly different relationship with their client in addition to the traditional client-therapist bond. For example, a therapist may find that the person...

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...

More often than not, the answer is: no.

• “I’m in recovery too…so you can trust the suggestions I give you.”
• “I’ve been there, done that, so I ‘get’ where you are coming from.”
• “When I was in early recovery I wouldn’t trust normal people...

Alcohol taxation and pricing policies have several public health, economic and social benefits as they have the capacity to:

1. Generate tax revenue
2. Reduce alcohol consumption and associated harms (covering both externalities and...