The range of medical, psychological, and social services designed to help individuals reduce or stop substance use and manage substance use disorders. Treatment may include assessment, counselling and behavioural therapies, medication-assisted treatment, withdrawal management, and support for co-occurring mental or physical health conditions. Effective treatment is typically person-centred and evidence-informed, and may be provided in outpatient, community, or residential settings. Treatment aims to improve health and functioning, reduce substance-related harms, and support individuals in moving toward recovery and long-term wellbeing.
Treatment
Behavioural Addiction among Youths: Patterns and Innovative strategies for Prevention
Transforming Documentation: From Pitfalls to Best Practices
Clinical documentation often determines whether patients receive the necessary treatment or face costly denials. This webinar offers practical strategies to enhance documentation and effectively demonstrate medical necessity. We'll cover common pitfalls such as vague goals, lack of progress, and missing barriers, and replace them with individualized, measurable, and clinically sound notes.
Online Training: Supporting Kinship Carers
This course focuses on the experiences of kinship carers, family members and friends who step in to care for children when parents are unable to do so, often due to substance use or other complex challenges.
Understanding dual disorders
Objective: This webinar will provide an overview of dual disorders (DD), introduce the recently launched EUDA health and social responses miniguide, and offer practical insights from EU-based initiatives. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the challenges associated with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, as well as examples of how these are being addressed in different contexts.
Tobacco Associated Disease Claims and ICD-10 F17 Tobacco Dependence Coding Among Psychiatric Patients in Indonesia National Health Insurance Dataset: A Retrospective Claims-Based Observational Study, 2015 - 2023
4th International Symposium on Drug-Related Studies - 2026, Sri Lanka
International Journal of Substance Abuse Research and Policy
Democratising Evidence with David Patton Pt. 4: The Future of Evidence
Democratising Evidence with David Patton Pt. 3: Participatory Research in Practice