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Ο προσυμπτωματικός έλεγχος, η σύντομη παρέμβαση και η παραπομπή σε θεραπεία (SBIRT) είναι μια τεκμηριωμένη προσέγγιση για τη μείωση της χρήσης ουσιών στους εφήβους. Μια αναδυόμενη βιβλιογραφία δείχνει την υπόσχεση του σχολικού...
Key studies on the role of management and supervision in the treatment of problem drug use. Commentary asks, “Is there anything more instructive than *being* the patient?”, explores the role of patient choice and preferences in treatment...
Background: Alcohol and other drug use is associated with poor sleep quality and quantity, but there is limited qualitative research exploring substance users’ experiences of sleep and few psychosocial sleep interventions for...
Introduction: Dual disorders (DD) are defined as the co-occurrence of substance use disorders with other psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. DD represent a diagnostic dimension with clinical peculiarities and specific...
This article highlights the overburdened health system in West Virginia, including a shortage of behavioral treatment professionals.
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Στόχοι: Η μελέτη εξέτασε τις διαφορές φύλου στην τάση και τα κλινικά χαρακτηριστικά της διάγνωσης της διαταραχής χρήσης κάνναβης (CUD) που αφορούσαν νοσηλείες ενηλίκων ασθενών.
Μέθοδοι: Αναλύσαμε δεδομένα νοσηλείας από τα...
The purpose of the Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine is to provide guidance about the effective use of drug testing in the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and promotion of recovery for patients...
Στη Λατινική Αμερική, οι διαταραχές που σχετίζονται με τις ουσίες είναι ιδιαίτερα διαδεδομένες και μία από τις στρατηγικές θεραπείας είναι οι Θεραπευτικές Κοινότητες (TCs), ωστόσο, στη Λατινική Αμερική υπάρχουν σπάνια...
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
Το "Million Hearts" είναι μια πρωτοβουλία που ξεκίνησε το Υπουργείο Υγείας και Ανθρωπίνων Υπηρεσιών των ΗΠΑ και έχει ως στόχο την πρόληψη 1 εκατομμυρίου καρδιακών προσβολών και εγκεφαλικών επεισοδίων, προωθώντας τεκμηριωμένη παρέμβαση μέσω...
Keeping Youth Drug Free is a new publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Aimed at parents, the guide offers advice for keeping children substance-free. It includes a review of the latest...
Substance use is common among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and is associated with worse outcomes along the HIV care continuum. One potentially effective clinic-based approach to addressing unhealthy substance use...
At the front line the practitioner is to the patient the face of addiction treatment. Key research shows they can matter enormously - not so much in their formal qualifications, but in their manner with the patients. Other times it seems a...
Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for unhealthy drinking has not been widely implemented in primary care partly due to reliance on physicians to perform it.
We implemented a model of nursing...
Problem gambling in the UK is reported to affect around 590,000 people.
The condition can be treated via a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication.
Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry...
The first matrix cell on treatment (as opposed to harm reduction) seems a good time to ask: What is treatment there to do? ‘Cure’ addiction, or promote meaningful and productive lives? Meet patients’ wishes, or aid the government’s welfare...
Εδραιώνει τα μαθήματα των πρώτων πέντε δόσεων του διαδικτυακού μαθήματος για την έρευνα για τη θεραπεία των ναρκωτικών. Τα πέντε κύτταρα στη σειρά 1 διερεύνησαν βασικές έρευνες σχετικά με τη μείωση της βλάβης στον χρήστη ως αποτέλεσμα της...
Substance use disorders are one of the most common and debilitating mental health conditions experienced by youth, and several well-established risk factors exist that contribute to the development and persistence of SUDs...
Alcohol contributes significantly to the disease and mortality burden in the WHO European Region, and primary health care systems play an important role in reducing the impact of harmful alcohol use. Screening and brief interventions (SBIs)...
Objective: To develop and encourage the adoption of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for smoking cessation in Canada by engaging stakeholders in the adaptation of existing high-quality CPGs using principles of the ADAPTE...