Naloxone in Homelessness Services
With drug-related deaths at the highest number since comparable statistics began, why aren’t more homelessness services using naloxone to prevent overdose deaths?
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Facebook Will Redirect Searches about Opiates to SAMHSA Support Services
Many news outlets are reporting on a newly introduced feature of Facebook to help support people who use opiate drugs.
How Teenage Vaping Puts Structure in Place for Heroin and Cocaine Addiction
The rapid adoption of e-cigarettes has been driven, at least in part, by a huge jump in the potency of e-liquids. CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG teenagers is on the wane. While data show smoking among teenagers has dropped over the past few years...
NIDA Easy to Read Drug Facts
If you are searching for a simple format way to communicate the key issues around drugs then the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website may offer a multi-media solution. The Easy to Read Drug Facts section of the NIDA website...
European Drug Report 2018
The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released their latest European Drugs report. Covering 30 European countries the report explores drug trends, developments in prevention and treatment, public health...
Virtual Reality Cue Refusal Video Game for Alcohol and Cigarette Recovery Support: Summative Study
A study implementing the use of virtual reality to explore addition and recovery has been published by a team of researchers connected to Clinical Tools, Inc. Clinical Tools is based in the USA with work combining medicine, science, and...
Treat Addiction Like Cancer
Likewise cancer, addiction is a complex disease that requires being addressed by an integral, balanced and multidisciplinary approach. Currently, within the healthcare systems, there are available treatment options for cancer that are...
Public versus Internal Conceptions of Addiction: An Analysis of Internal Philip Morris Documents
Abstract Background Tobacco addiction is a complex, multicomponent phenomenon stemming from nicotine’s pharmacology and the user’s biology, psychology, sociology, and environment. After decades of public denial, the tobacco industry now...
The Influence of Psychological Factors during Early Years of Life in the Development of Addiction
Abstract Addiction is a multifaceted condition with various entry and exit points throughout its course in an individual's life. In some adolescents, early onset can be followed by limited adolescent use or abuse and is more related to...