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Cultural adaptation of measuring instruments on stigma and mental illness in Mexico City

Scientific article

summary This work is part of a collaborative study involving research teams in Canada and Mexico. The general objective is to describe the process of cultural adaptation and semantic validation of three measuring instruments on stigma and...

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment Study

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Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment (SWAAT) is a National Drugs Strategy Strand 2 Strategic Health Initiative which aims to build community capacity to support women to access treatment and recovery from drug and alcohol use...

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment

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Kenya Launches National Guidelines on Drug Use Prevention

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June 26, 2021, Nairobi, Kenya:- As the World commemorated the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (IDADA) on June 26, 2021, Kenya has added another milestone in the journey towards a nation free from alcohol and...

National Guidelines on Drug Use Prevention, 2021 adopted and launched by the Kenyan Government on June 26, 2021

The Importance of School Awareness in Addressing Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

29 June 2021

Online

United Arab Emirates

Virtual awareness webinar organized by the National Rehabilitation Center, inline with the International Drug Control Day, to discuss "The Importance of School Awareness in Addressing Drugs and Psychotropic Substances".

Tuesday: 29-June-2021 at 8:00 pm (UAE)

Link to join: https://bit.ly/3gTuHV1

Association of genetic liability to smoking initiation with e-cigarette use in young adults: A cohort study

Scientific article

18 March 2021

Background: Tobacco smoking and e-cigarette use are strongly associated, but it is currently unclear whether this association is causal, or due to shared factors that influence both behaviours such as a shared genetic liability. The aim of...

Stigma towards people bereaved by drug-related death

Scientific article

Drug-related deaths can result in complex emotional turmoil for family members who are going through a grieving process at the same time as often experiencing a level of stigma. Despite the high frequency of drug-related deaths worldwide...

An Integrative Review of Measuring Caregiver Burden in Substance Use Disorder

Scientific article

23 September 2020

Abstract Background: Family caregivers contribute to engagement in treatment and adherence, reduced substance misuse and relapse, and increased well-being of recipients with substance use disorder. However, providing care has also been...

A randomised, double-blind study investigating the relationship between early childhood trauma and the rewarding effects of morphine

Scientific article

21 June 2021

Experiences of childhood trauma (abuse and neglect) are disproportionately higher in those with opioid use disorder (OUD). Childhood trauma may affect the reinforcing and rewarding properties of opioid drugs and responses to pain, potentially via developmental changes to the endogenous opioid system.

Children's Rights in Drug Treatment Programmes Survey

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Dianova International launched an online survey gathering information about how children's needs are being addressed in adult drug treatment programmes, and by identifying ways of promoting family-centred services respectful of the needs of...