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BACKGROUND: The role of physicians is crucial in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and addiction. The quality of addiction-specific medical education varies, as do postgraduate and continuing medical education...

Background:
Recovery, a primary goal of addiction treatment, goes beyond abstinence. Incorporating broad domains with key elements that vary across individuals, recovery is a difficult concept to measure. Most addiction-related quality...

Psychoactive substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs) remains remain to be a major problem around the world. Which is negatively effect on global health and social and economic functioning. Though people who suffer from SUDs must...

Background
Data concerning driving under the influence of alcohol (DUIA) are frequently characterised by their lack of availability, accuracy, or reliability. This inherent limitation poses challenges in the examination of the influence of...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Wellness Initiative envisions
a future in which people with mental or substance use problems pursue health, happiness, recovery, and a full and satisfying life in the...

Discussion

Despite guidelines recommending MOUD, approximately 1 in 5 adults with past-year OUD received any MOUD. Furthermore, some groups were substantially less likely to receive MOUD, in particular Black adults, women, those unemployed...

Із задоволенням представляю вам результат роботи нашої великої команди: третю версію посібника для консультантів-однолітків, які працюють з людьми, які отримували терапію агоністами опіоїдів.

У посібнику ми спробували описати наш...

The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia in collaboration with Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC HQ held a Regional Training of Trainers (ToT) on Course 20 – “Populations with Special Clinical Needs” which took place...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, MP (on Saturday 8 July) inaugurated the Ahsania Hena Ahmed Monojotno Kendra aiming to provide international standard specialized treatment services for mental disorders and substance use disorders patients at...

The American College of Science and Humanities and its Centre for Global Health Research and Policy in Sri Lanka participated at the UNODC Constructive Dialogue on Technical Assistance at Vienne, Austria, in person, on 30 May 2023 - 31 May...

INTRODUCTION: In Spain, the offer of prevention programmes is very varied and structured, but today the challenge remains how to put evidence into practice. European Commission define a best practice as “a relevant policy or intervention...

INTRODUCTION: Prevention science and quality standards of drug prevention in the EU and in the world have developed in recent decades. Progress has been made in quality development in Croatia, but the experience of the process of improving...

BACKGROUND: Implementing quality measurement is still a challenge in the field of drug treatment and harm reduction. In this case study, we investigate which strategies can be used to enhance the implementation of a policy in which quality...

ВСТУП: У сприятливому політичному кліматі середини 2010-х років стандарти оцінки та відбору профілактичних програм, видані з огляду EDPQS (ASPIRE), були розроблені для підтримки планування проектів з профілактики наркотиків.

МЕТОДИ: Цей...

BACKGROUND: Coolmine’s implementation of quality standards involves a period of change management, strategic planning, and national policy development.

METHODS: A narrative case study focusing on national policy and internal strategic...

INTRODUCTION: The Cyprus National Addictions Authority (NAAC) is the main coordinating body for all matters related to licit and illicit substances as well as pathological gambling in Cyprus and it is responsible, inter alia, for the...

BACKGROUND: The implementation of quality standards in the treatment of substance use disorders in Lithuania is not well documented in the literature. AIMS: To describe the process of the development of quality standards from grassroots...