Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Treatment
Do Creative Arts Therapies Reduce Substance Misuse? A Systematic Review
Abstract The complexities of substance misuse treatment indicate a need to consider the efficacy of creative arts therapies for those who find it difficult to verbalise their emotions and feelings. The focus of this systematic review is to...
Factors Influencing the Long-Term Sustainment of Quality Improvements Made in Addiction Treatment Facilities
Abstract Background A greater understanding of the factors that influence long-term sustainment of quality improvement (QI) initiatives is needed to promote organizational ability to sustain QI practices over time, help improve future...
Effects of Naltrexone on Alcohol Self-Administration and Craving
Abstract Randomized clinical trials have established the efficacy of naltrexone for reducing quantity of alcohol consumption and incidence of relapse to heavy drinking. To evaluate putative treatment mechanisms, human laboratory studies...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix: Creating a Lifesaving Treatment and Harm Reduction System
Online course moves on to the whole-system level, where treatment and harm reduction services working in synergy are the best hope for reversing the hepatitis C epidemic - but can any feasible local or national system succeed in this...
Engagement within a Mobile Phone-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adolescents
ABSTRACT Background: Although mobile phone-delivered smoking cessation programs are a promising way to promote smoking cessation among adolescents, little is known about how adolescents might actually use them. Objective: The aim of this...
Novel Vaccines against Morphine Heroin
SUMMARY Drug addiction is one of the most important health problems worldwide. This pathology results in the death of about 500,000 individuals annually around the globe. Despite this scenario, the development of effective drug therapies...
The Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the treatment of cancer pain and pain at the end of life, their overuse for acute and chronic non-cancer pain as well as the increasing availability of heroin and...
Determining Counselling Communication Strategies Associated with Successful Quits in the 'Stop Smoking Programme' in East London
Abstract Objectives: To determine communication strategies associated with smoking cessation in the National Health Service community pharmacy Stop Smoking programme. Setting: 11 community pharmacies in three inner east London boroughs...
Cognitive Complexity of Clients and Counsellors during Motivation-Based Treatment for Smoking Cessation
Abstract Objective: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a widely used and promising treatment approach for aiding in smoking cessation. The present observational study adds to other recent research on why and when MI works by investigating a...