Los días 13 y 14 de diciembre de 2021 se celebró en Tashkent (Uzbekistán) el Taller Regional UNODC/OMS sobre las Normas Internacionales para el Tratamiento de los Trastornos por Consumo de Drogas (DUD) en formato híbrido. Asistieron al evento 25 responsables de la formulación de políticas de Asia Central y funcionarios de alto nivel del Ministerio de Salud y otros ministerios pertinentes que participan en la formulación de políticas, la planificación, la financiación, la prestación, la supervisión y la evaluación de los servicios de tratamiento y las intervenciones para el trastorno por...

Speaker: Dr. Silvia Morales Chainé

Academic session held on Monday, November 8, 2021.

The slides used by Dr. Morales Chainé are available at ISSUP: https://www.issup.net/node/15736

For more publications, presentations, videos and materials by Dr. Silvia Morales Chainé, please visit her profile on ISSUP as a researcher: https://www.issup.net/node/13799

The Annual Meeting will be held on March 2-5 2022, and is currently scheduled to take place at the Edinburgh International Conference Center in Edinburgh, Scotland.  

The SRNT 2022 Annual Meeting may be a hybrid (part in person, part virtual) or entirely virtual, depending on how things play out in the coming months. A final decision about the meeting format (face-to-face hybrid virtual component vs. entirely virtual) will not be made for some time. In the meantime, attendees should not hesitate to submit for fear of being unable to travel. Rest assured that the meeting, no matter the...

Research from the University of Exeter has highlighted how childhood trauma can make individuals more sensitive to the pleasurable and motivational effects of opioids and less sensitive to the negative consequence of the drugs.

The research, which has been published in the journal of Addiction Biology, aimed to assess the impact of childhood trauma on responses to morphine and pain processing.

As part of a randomised control trial, 52 healthy people- 27 with a history of childhood abuse and neglect, and 25 who reported no such experiences in childhood- received either an active dose of...