Webinar: Enhancing Residential Addiction Treatment Services
Date & Time:
Fri, 3 February 2017
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
Practice
Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016
Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...
New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers
This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free. Service providers can now...
Webinar "Change is in the Air: Taking Initiative Towards a Tobacco-Free Texas"
Webinar date and time:
Tue, Feb 7, 2017: 2 pm EST
Free Resource for Evaluating Drug Prevention and Treatment Interventions
The Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB) is an online database of freely available resources for evaluating drug prevention and treatment programmes and initiatives. You can search the archive by type of intervention (treatment or prevention)...
10th European Public Health Conference
The European Public Health Conference aims to contribute to the improvement of public health in Europe by offering a means for exchanging information and a platform for debate to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of public health and health services research as well as public health training and education in Europe.
Aging Well Webinar: Addressing Behavioral Health with Older Adults in Primary Care Settings
Aging Well: Addressing Behavioral Health with Older Adults in Primary Care Settings
February 15, 2017
1:00pm- 2:30pm EST
New Directions in the Study of Alcohol Group (NDSAG) Conference
This conference explores the pressures on drinkers and providers of alcohol services, through exploration of current and emerging best policy, practice and research considerations.
Readiness and Barriers to Adopt Evidence-Based Practices for Substance Abuse Treatment in Mexico
Evidence shows a lag in the adoption of evidence-based practices for substance abuse treatment and supports the need for studying the factors involved in this worldwide problem.
Treating Alcohol Addiction with Positive Relationships
A ‘therapeutic alliance’, or in other words, a positive and trusting relationship between counsellor and patient, could be the key to successful treatment of alcohol addiction, according to a new study. Patients who reported a more positive...