Dans le cadre des efforts visant à améliorer la qualité et l'accès des personnes atteintes de troubles liés à l'usage de drogues aux services de traitement et de soins fondés sur des preuves et en appui au récent lancement officiel du...
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In December 2019, the Chinese government reported patients with viral pneumonia caused by a new beta coronavirus in Wuhan. In a very short time, the virus spread around the world, causing a global pandemic referred to as COVID...
Dear readers,
This issue of the journal presents many interesting articles on various topics related to addiction. Mutual sign of research studies, despite their different thematic focus, is to show how important is to examine the...
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology organized a Seminar on Myths and Facts related to Drugs. In this program, I had an opportunity to conduct a session as a keynote on " Role of Youth in Substance Abuse...
EDITORIAL
Dear readers,
This issue of the journal Addictology offers you many interesting articles on addiction, while each article’s research area is very specific. Authors examine various aspects of addiction in connection with...
INTRODUCTION:
The Czech Republic records one of the highest prevalence levels of obesity in comparison to other European and world countries. The present study aims to fill a gap in the use of tools in research of food addiction (FA)...
BACKGROUND: The identity and social representation of people linked to drugs depend on their interaction with the system that collects and analyses the critical data used to describe it. AIM: The aim of this study is to see if by adopting a...
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The current practice of undergraduate education in addictology for medical students at medical faculties both in and outside Europe does not meet the requirements and needs of practice. The rise in problems with legally...
13-14 December 2021 UNODC/WHO Regional Workshop on the International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders (DUD) was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in hybrid format. 25 policymakers from Central Asia and high-level officials from...
The UNODC Programme Office for Indonesia (POIDN), in collaboration with Indonesian Association of Addiction Counsellor (IKAI), initiated to create an application called “RehabNet”. The idea to develop this application came after seeing the...
Indonesia has been promoting science-based and ethical services to improve the health, well-being and recovery of affected individuals with drug use disorders and increase public safety to all drug use disorders treatment providers both at...
Objectives As unrecorded alcohol use contributes to a substantial burden of disease, this study characterises this phenomenon in newly independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union with regard to the sources of unrecorded...
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In the US, buprenorphine use...
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, mental health among youth has been negatively affected. Youth with a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), as well as youth from minoritized racial-ethnic...
La Société internationale des professionnels du traitement de l’addiction aux substances psychoactives (en anglais International Society of Substance Use Professionals, ISSUP) dispose désormais d’une branche au Togo. L’ISSUP-Togo a été...
ROSC or Recovery Oriented System of Care is a coordinated network of community-based services that is person-centred and builds on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families and communities (1).
This paper provides a...
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