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Multimorbidity in Patients Enrolled in a Community-Based Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programme Delivered through Primary Care
Abstract
Background: Multimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more (2+) long-term conditions in an individual, is common among problem drug abusers.
Objective: To delineate the patterns, multimorbidity prevalence, and disease severity...
A Socioecological Approach to Addressing Tobacco-Related Health Disparities
Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
Abstract
Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
The Importance of Nutrition for Recovery from Addiction
How important is nutrition for recovery from Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)?
According to new research published in the academic journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence the answer is: very.
The paper, which looked at the relationship between...
Διπλές διαταραχές: Ένας νέος τρόπος για να σκεφτείτε τον εθισμό;
Παρά την αυξανόμενη βάση αποδεικτικών στοιχείων και τις πολυάριθμες αλλαγές πολιτικής, η συσχέτιση μεταξύ εθισμού και άλλων προβλημάτων ψυχικής υγείας συχνά αγνοείται.
Παραμένει ότι πολλοί ασθενείς με Διαταραχή Χρήσης Ουσιών (SUD) έχουν...
Ενεργειακά ποτά, χρήση ναρκωτικών και αναπτυσσόμενος εγκέφαλος
Νέα έρευνα που χρηματοδοτήθηκε από το Εθνικό Ινστιτούτο για την Κατάχρηση Ναρκωτικών (NIDA) διαπίστωσε ότι οι φοιτητές πανεπιστημίου που καταναλώνουν τακτικά ενεργειακά ποτά είναι πιο πιθανό να αναπτύξουν διαταραχές χρήσης αλκοόλ αργότερα...
How States Are Tackling the Opioid Crisis
Drug Matrix Cell A1: Interventions - Ways to Reduce the Harm
Initiates a fortnightly course on the evidence base for harm reduction and treatment in relation to illegal drugs. Comprehensively updated, the cell explores key research on interventions to reduce the harms to the user as a result of their...
Ιδιοκτησία smartphone μεταξύ των καπνιστών τσιγάρων ενηλίκων των ΗΠΑ
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Ιστορικό: Παρά το αυξανόμενο ενδιαφέρον για εφαρμογές smartphone ως πλατφόρμα για την παράδοση παρεμβάσεων διακοπής του καπνού, καμία προηγούμενη μελέτη δεν έχει αξιολογήσει τον επιπολασμό και τα χαρακτηριστικά των καπνιστών που...
Άρθρο ανασκόπησης: Πρόσφατες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τη λήψη κλινικών αποφάσεων σε σοβαρή αλκοολική ηπατίτιδα
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Η αλκοολική ηπατίτιδα είναι μια σοβαρή οξεία εκδήλωση αλκοολικής ηπατικής νόσου με υψηλή θνησιμότητα. Η διαχείριση των ασθενών με αυτή την πάθηση αποτελεί θέμα διαμάχης εδώ και πολλά χρόνια. Ωστόσο, πρόσφατες κλινικές...
More Reasons to Move: Exercise in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
Physical exercise is widely regarded as “medicine” for the prevention and treatment of myriad somatic health conditions. Studies also demonstrate that exercise is effective in the treatment of common mental disorders and has a role in the...
Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy
ABSTRACT
Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...
Teachers and Coaches in Adolescent Social Networks Are Associated with Healthier Self-Concept and Decreased Substance Use
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND
Poor academic (eg. “I am a bad student”) and behavioral (eg. “I am a troublemaker”) self-concepts are strongly linked to adolescent substance use. Social networks likely influence self-concept. However, little is...
Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches.
In other words, thanks to scientific advances...
¿Es posible una lucha real?
Geraldine González Willim es experta en la prevención y el tratamiento de adicciones de drogas legales o ilegales. En esta entrevista, detalla sobre los planes de acción aplicables al Paraguay para luchar contra un flagelo que cada día...
Line Up Live Up Trainer Manual: Preventing Drug Use by Promoting Active Lifestyles
Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.
It looks to promote sport and...
Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
Abstract
Background
There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...
EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse
Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...
Αρχές πρόληψης της κατάχρησης ουσιών για την προσχολική ηλικία
Οι αρχές του Εθνικού Ινστιτούτου για την Πρόληψη της Κατάχρησης Ναρκωτικών (NIDA) για την Πρόληψη της Κατάχρησης Ουσιών για την Προσχολική Ηλικία (2017) είναι ένας ειδικός τόμος που συμπληρώνει την πρόληψη της χρήσης ναρκωτικών μεταξύ...
Equipping Community Pharmacy Workers as Agents for Health Behaviour Change
Abstract
Objective: To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates.
Design: Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed...
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