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The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) together with the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS) organized a study tour for high-level representatives, including senior officials, policymakers and substance...

Abstract

Objective

The crisis of opioid use puts a strain on resources in the United States and worldwide. There are 3 US Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for treatment of opioid use disorder: methadone, buprenorphine...

Availability of safe and comfortable shelter is one of the elementary human needs essential for both an individual’s survival as well as social development. However, even in the 21st century, about one fifth of the world’s population...

BACKGROUND: The abuse of psychoactive prescription drugs has become increasingly common in the Czech Republic. These drugs include sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics (benzodiazepines and Z-hypnotics), and opioids. Patients with an addiction...

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Φόντο

Αυτή η μελέτη προσδιόρισε τα προφίλ των ασθενών όσον αφορά την ποιότητα της χρήσης εξωνοσοκομειακής περίθαλψης, τα σχετικά κοινωνικοδημογραφικά και κλινικά χαρακτηριστικά και τα δυσμενή αποτελέσματα με βάση τη συχνή...

Εισαγωγή 

Υπάρχει αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον και στοιχεία για τη χρήση κανναβινοειδών φαρμάκων στη θεραπεία της διαταραχής χρήσης κάνναβης, αλλά ελάχιστη εξέταση των συσχετισμών της επιτυχούς θεραπείας. Αυτή η εργασία είναι μια δευτερεύουσα...

Background

There is a higher prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) among justice-involved children (JIC). It is critical to ensure that JIC who report current use are referred for SUD assessment and potentially life-saving treatment...

Background

COVID-19 dramatically limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not...

Background

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental...

UNODC in collaboration with the Ministry of Narcotics Control (MoNC) and the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination (MoNHSR&C) and with the generous support from US/INL, is developing National Standards and...

The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) conducted a National Training “UNODC Drug Use Disorder Treatment Systems Quality Assurance (QA)” which took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 28-30 November 2022.

This capacity building...

This month on November 9th, 2022, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) DDR Partners meeting offered a discussion on quality assurance and included two presentations:

• Building Quality Improvement for SUD Treatment...

Η διαχείριση έκτακτης ανάγκης (CM) είναι μια ψυχολογική θεραπεία που βασίζεται στη λειτουργική προετοιμασία. Συνίσταται στην παροχή κινήτρων σε αντάλλαγμα για την επίτευξη μιας συμπεριφοράς-στόχου, όπως η αποχή ή άλλες μεταβλητές που...

Φόντο

Η μη εμφάνιση ραντεβού και η πρόωρη εγκατάλειψη της θεραπείας αντιπροσωπεύουν σημαντικές προκλήσεις στη θεραπεία διαταραχών χρήσης ουσιών εξωτερικών ασθενών, επηρεάζοντας αρνητικά τα κλινικά αποτελέσματα και την παραγωγικότητα...

Background

In somatic health care settings, interdisciplinary collaborations (where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are considered to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary...

Background

Aftercare programs for people with substance use disorders (PWSUD) are frequently challenged with a number of overlapping obstacles, including uncertain policy consequences and a lack of resources. Despite demographic variety...

Project update

QUALITY CHAMPIONS EVENTS - PALMA DE MALLORCA, 5TH-6TH MAY, 2022

This event, offered in a hybrid format, was attended by 68 participants –53 in person and 15 online—who presented and discussed initiatives on prevention...

Aim: To determine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of methadone maintenance treatment patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Subject and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 967 patients being treated at two methadone...

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to attend their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Beyond Dependence: Alcohol-induced Disorders.

Learning Outcomes:

•    Sensitization to the wide...