Addiction

Adfam Research Report: Families and friends negatively affected by gambling - Policy & Recommendations

Book

Description: This report sets out Adfam's findings from a range of research activities including four specific gambling-related surveys, peer support training and round-table events. It looks at the effects of gambling on families as well...

COVID 19—impact on substance use treatment utilisation and provision in South Africa

Scientific article

3 March 2022

Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected persons suffering from substance use disorders (SUDs) all around the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the number of SUD treatment...

Women in Recovery Specialty Online Training Series: Engaging Women of Color in Addiction Treatment

25 March 2022

Online

Friday, March 25, 2022 @ 12:00-1:30pm ET (11CT/10MT/9PT)

Description

The purpose of this training is to provide clinicians with a culturally-specific point of reference relating to conceptualising, assessing, coordinating, and implementing treatment specifically to women of colour.

Join us at the COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS this week!

News

Dear friends and colleagues, The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing...

An observational prospective cohort study of naloxone use at witnessed overdoses, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine

Scientific article

3 February 2022

Abstract Objective To determine whether participation in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Stop Overdose Safely (S-O-S) take-home naloxone training project in Kazakhstan...

The relationship between craving and insular morphometry in regular cocaine users: Does sex matter?

Scientific article

21 February 2022

Abstract While it has been suggested that cocaine use and relapse in women is more strongly related to stress-relief craving, whereas cocaine use in men is more strongly related to reward craving, the neural mechanisms that underlie these...

Sex differences in acute cannabis effects revisited: Results from two randomized, controlled trials

Scientific article

22 December 2021

Abstract Some evidence suggests that males and females may differ in their responses to acute cannabis effects, including subjective drug effects and behavioural effects, and cannabinoid pharmacokinetics. This is significant given current...

Multimodal MRI data fusion reveals distinct structural, functional and neurochemical correlates of heavy cannabis use

Scientific article

22 November 2021

Abstract Heavy cannabis use (HCU) is frequently associated with a plethora of cognitive, psychopathological and sensorimotor phenomena. Although HCU is frequent, specific patterns of abnormal brain structure and function underlying HCU in...

Overcoming the pains of recovery: The management of negative recovery capital during addiction recovery pathways

Scientific article

Abstract: Pains experienced as a result of negative recovery capital are often thought to stimulate motivations for positive behavioural change, usually through a ‘rock bottom’ type moment. Whilst recovery capital and barriers to recovery...

Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

15 March 2022

Online

A major new book about our understanding of addiction “Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA)” is published on March 7, 2022. This book seeks to advance the debate about the nature of addiction.