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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As Demand and Deaths Increase, US and China Cooperate on Opioid Addiction Treatment
This article highlights the cooperation between the governments of China and the United States in sharing each other's substance use treatment and prevention experiences and finding opportunities to collaborate.
The Emerging Role of Inhaled Heroin in the Opioid Epidemic: A Review
This article addresses encephalopathies: disease, damage, or malfunction of the brain. The authors attribute these problems to smoked/inhaled heroin which they label CTD (chasing the dragon). However, CTD (inhaling heroin fumes) has been...
Uno de cada seis jóvenes en bachillerato ha probado las drogas
La marihuana es la sustancia ilegal más usada, pero crece consumo de ‘popper’.
Al menos 520 mil estudiantes de colegio, cuyas edades están entre los 12 y los 18 años, han consumido drogas por lo menos una vez en su vida. Esa cifra...
شبکه اپیدمیولوژی جامعه آفریقای جنوبی در مورد مصرف مواد مخدر (SACENDU) استفاده از الکل و دیگر روند مواد مخدر 2018 به روز رسانی
شبکه اپیدمیولوژی جامعه آفریقای جنوبی در مورد مصرف مواد مخدر (SACENDU) گزارش کوتاهی در مورد الکل و دیگر روند مواد مخدر برای سال 2018 تهیه کرده است.
SACENDU در 9 ولایت افریقای جنوبی عملیاتی است، روند مصرف الکول و دیگر مواد مخدر (AOD) و...
Influence of Parental Alcohol Dependence on Parenting and Risking Drinking
A study published in the journal of Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research explores the association between parental alcohol problems and subsequent risky drinking and behavioural issues in adolescents.
The study utilised a sample...
National Report on the Drug Situation in Lebanon
The document National Report on Drug Situation in Lebanon offers an insight into the coordinated approach taken by the Department of Public Health, academic stakeholders and other ministerial departments in reducing the prevalence and impact of substance use disorders in Lebanon.
Cannabis, a Significant Risk Factor for Violent Behavior in the Early Phase Psychosis
Background: Previous literature suggests that prevalence of cannabis use in the early phase of psychosis is high, and that early psychosis patients are at high-risk for violent behavior. However, the link between cannabis use and violent...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Organisation-Level Influences on Psychosocial Therapies
Key studies on how treatment organisations affect the implementation and effectiveness of psychosocial therapies for drug dependence. See if you agree that “organizational climate underlies the entire process of innovation adoption”...
Substance Use Prevention Important to Achieve SDG Goals
World Leaders have been committed to fulfilling the 169 targets in achieving the 17 goals of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, among these Substance Use Prevention and Treatment is one of the most important targets. Substance...
Effects of Repeated Binge Drinking on Blood Pressure Levels and Other Cardiovascular Health Metrics in Young Adults
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Background: Binge drinking prevalence rates are highest in young adults; however, little is known about the effects of binge drinking on blood pressure (BP) and other cardiovascular health metrics in individuals between 18 and 45...
Intervenções via Internet para redução do consumo de álcool entre universitários: uma revisão sistemática
[RESUMO]. Objetivo. Identificar as principais modalidades de intervenções via Internet para limitar o uso de álcool por estudantes universitários e descrever os efeitos dessas intervenções sobre o consumo e as consequências do uso de álcool...
درمان سیگار کشیدن شدید
سیگار کشیدن تنباکو یک بیماری مزمن است که یک پنجم جمعیت ما را تحت تاثیر قرار می دهد. اکثر سیگاری ها با این حال آگاهانه نیست و نه به دنبال درمان برای مشکل خود را. برخی از بیماران قادر به رسیدن به دوری خود را اما اکثریت نیاز به نوعی از درمان...
Baltimore Mayor’s Heroin Treatment & Prevention Task Force Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In October 2014, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake convened the Heroin Treatment and Prevention Task Force to address the critical problem of opioid addiction in Baltimore City. The goal of the Task Force was to study the...
Knowledge of Mental Health Legislation in Ghana
Abstract
Introduction
Mental illness can affect anyone irrespective of race, gender or personal characteristics. The study sought to investigate health workers’ Knowledge on Mental Health Legislation in Ghana focusing on the Certificate...
ارتباط ‐ جنسی بین مصرف الکل و بروز فشار خون بالا
آبستره
سابقه و هدف: با وجودی که به خوبی ثابت شده است که مصرف الکل سنگین خطر فشار خون بالا را افزایش می دهد، خطر مرتبط با سطوح پایین مصرف الکل در مردان و زنان نامشخص است.
روش ها و نتايج: ما مدلاین و امباس را برای مطالعات هم گروه اصلی در...
UNODC World Drug Report 2018
The 2018 World Drug Report was launched on 26th June. The report covers a range of topics with the booklets split into drug demand and supply, drug markets, drugs and age, and women and drugs.
The booklets are all available free to access...
روز جهانی مواد مخدر و گزارش جهانی مواد مخدر در سال 2018 راه اندازی شد
موضوع سال ۲۰۱۸ دفتر مبارزه با مواد مخدر و جرایم سازمان ملل متحد "اول گوش کن" بود.
جلسه ماه جون تیم کارکنان ISSUP
تیم کارمندان ISSUP در ماه جون با هم ملاقات کردند تا در مورد ماه های آینده و به روز رسانی به وب سایت بحث کنند. تیم ISSUP از راه دور در مکان های مختلف بین المللی کار می کنند بنابراین بسیار عالی است که با هم رو در رو به کار بر روی تحولات بزرگ...