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Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Great Resources for Teachers
Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...
Training of Peer Educators at Tihar Central Jail
SPYM has started a prison intervention program among drug abusing youth who are inmates of the Central Jail, Tihar in New Delhi. Peer educators have been identified and a training program was conducted by Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Executive...
Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?
12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...
Cocaine Addiction Leads to Build-Up of Iron in the Brain
According to a new study, cocaine addiction may alter the way the body processes iron.
Counselling Parents and Teens about Marijuana Use in the Era of Legalisation of Marijuana
Abstract
Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...
Effectiveness of the Gold Standard Programme Compared with Other Smoking Cessation Interventions in Denmark
Strengths and Limitations of this Study
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This study was based on a large cohort of smokers from all regions and settings in Denmark. 46 287 smokers were included in the study, and the follow-up rate was high (74%).
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The study was...
Κατευθυντήριες γραμμές κλινικής πρακτικής για τη διαχείριση διαταραχών χρήσης ουσιών
Αυτή η κατευθυντήρια γραμμή αντιπροσωπεύει ένα σημαντικό βήμα προς τη βελτίωση της θεραπείας και της διαχείρισης των ασθενών με διαταραχές χρήσης ουσιών (SUD) στο Τμήμα Υποθέσεων Βετεράνων (VA) και στο Υπουργείο Άμυνας (DoD). Όπως και με...
XR-Naltrexone: A Step-by-Step Guide
The Providers' Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment (PCSS-MAT) experts have recently created a virtual step-by-step XR-Naltrexone User Guide to assist you in your practice in treating opioid use disorder (OUD). XR...
The Drug Problem in the Americas: Drugs and Public Health
Summary and Findings
Most people do not use illicit drugs and among those who try them, only a fraction will develop patterns of dependence. Still, drug use constitutes a serious health problem for many people in the Americas. Early age of...
Συστηματική ανασκόπηση: Αποτελεσματικότητα και ασφάλεια της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας σε επιλεγμένες νευρολογικές διαταραχές
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Αντικειμενικός: Για να προσδιορίσετε την αποτελεσματικότητα της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας σε διάφορες νευρολογικές καταστάσεις.
Μεθόδους: Πραγματοποιήσαμε μια συστηματική ανασκόπηση της ιατρικής μαριχουάνας (1948-Νοέμβριος 2013)...
Thousands Die without Access to Alcohol Treatment
The BBC reports that almost 8,000 high-risk drinkers died from alcohol-related causes in Wales, UK between 2005 – 2014 without having received treatment for alcohol addiction. This is despite repeated hospital and A&E admissions for as much...
Guidelines for the Identification and Management of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy
These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or...
Ολόκληρη η οικογενειακή αποκατάσταση
Αυτό το έγγραφο παρέχει μια επισκόπηση των θεμάτων που προέκυψαν από τις ομάδες και τις συνεντεύξεις του Adfam για ολόκληρη την οικογενειακή αποκατάσταση και την εστίαση στο αλκοόλ. Αυτή η έρευνα διεξήχθη για να εξετάσουμε τις επιπτώσεις...
Adfam’s Manifesto for Families: 5 Key Challenges for Supporting Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol Use
“You don’t have to use drugs to be affected by them.”
In 2010 Adfam identified five key challenges for families that the Government should address, identified by stakeholders across England. They were:
- Supporting families in their own...
Working with Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Due to Parental Substance Use
This guide offers advice and suggestions to support service providers to deliver effective services to grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren due to parental substance misuse. It draws heavily on the work of Adfam’s Grandparent...
Υποστήριξη οικογενειών που πλήττονται από τη χρήση ουσιών και την ενδοοικογενειακή βία
Αυτή η έκθεση έρευνας αναλύει πώς η ενδοοικογενειακή βία και η κακοποίηση είναι πιο πιθανό από ό, τι δεν συμβαίνει στις στενές σχέσεις των συντρόφων όπου ένας σύντροφος έχει πρόβλημα με το αλκοόλ ή τα ναρκωτικά. Οι στόχοι αυτού του...
Validity and Reliability of the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in University Students
The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...
Real Voices in Volunteering
Adfam published this volunteering toolkit to provide all the information, policy, law and resources needed on volunteering, families and substance use.
Volunteers have always played an essential role in the family support and substance use...
Φάρμακα στη θεραπεία των ναρκωτικών: Αντιμετώπιση των κινδύνων για τα παιδιά – Ένας χρόνος μετά
Αυτή η έκθεση «One Year On» επεκτείνει τα ευρήματα και τις συστάσεις του Adfam's Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, που δημοσιεύθηκε το 2014, και συμβάλλει περαιτέρω στη συζήτηση σχετικά με τη μείωση των κινδύνων...
Medications in Drug Treatment – Tackling the Risks to Children
This report examines cases where children have died or come to harm from ingesting Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) medicines prescribed to help people overcome drug addiction. There have been 17 Serious Case Reviews involving the...
