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Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder
Rationale
The goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), as defined by DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). The guideline focuses specifically...
Καθολική σχολική εφαρμογή της σύντομης παρέμβασης διαλογής και παραπομπής σε θεραπεία για τη μείωση και την πρόληψη του αλκοόλ, της μαριχουάνας, του καπνού και άλλων ναρκωτικών
Αφηρημένος
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...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Managing Transformation
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...
Substance Use, Sleep and Intervention Design
Abstract
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...
Ibero-American Initiative for Dual Disorders to Improve Public Treatment Programmes
Abstract:
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...
Overburdened Mental Health Providers Thwart Police Push for Drug Treatment
This article highlights the overburdened health system in West Virginia, including a shortage of behavioral treatment professionals.
Διαφορές φύλου στη διάγνωση διαταραχών χρήσης κάνναβης που εμπλέκονται νοσηλείες στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες
ΑΦΗΡΗΜΈΝΟΣ
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...
Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine
Purpose
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...
Ποιοτικοί δείκτες μέτρησης θεραπευτικών κοινοτήτων για την εξάρτηση από ουσίες
Αφηρημένος
Φόντο
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...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
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...
Εντοπισμός και θεραπεία ασθενών που χρησιμοποιούν καπνό
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
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...
Changes in Specific Substance Involvement Scores among SBIRT Recipients in an HIV Primary Care Setting
Abstract
Background
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...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: The Face of Drug Addiction Treatment
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...
Delivery of Screening and Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Urban Academic Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract
Background
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.
Methods
We implemented a model of nursing...
Gambling Activates the Same Brain Pathways as Substance Addiction, New Study Finds
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...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What Is Drug Addiction Treatment for?
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...
Αποτελεσματικότητα Τράπεζα θεραπεία φαρμάκων Matrix Σειρά 1. Πρώτη εργασία: Σώστε ζωές, μειώστε τη βλάβη
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...
Exercise in the Treatment of Youth Substance Use Disorders: Review and Recommendations
SUMMARY
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...
WHO Alcohol Brief Intervention Training Manual for Primary Care (2017)
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)...
