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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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Background

This study identified patient profiles in terms of their quality of outpatient care use, associated sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and adverse outcomes based on frequent emergency department (ED)...

Introduction 

There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary...

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...

Sfondo

Il COVID-19 ha limitato drasticamente la portata e la portata del lavoro del dipartimento sanitario locale (LHD), reindirizzando le risorse alla risposta. Tuttavia, la necessità di servizi sanitari pubblici essenziali, compresa la...

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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...

L'UNODC, in collaborazione con il Ministero del Controllo degli Stupefacenti (MoNC) e il Ministero della Regolamentazione e del Coordinamento dei Servizi Sanitari Nazionali (MoNHSR&C) e con il generoso sostegno degli Stati Uniti / INL...

L'Ufficio regionale dell'UNODC per l'Asia centrale (ROCA) ha condotto una formazione nazionale "UNODC Drug Use Disorder Treatment Systems Quality Assurance (QA)" che si è svolta a Bishkek, in Kirghizistan, il 28-30 novembre 2022.

Questo...

Questo mese, il 9 novembre 2022, l'incontro dei partner DDR dell'International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) ha offerto una discussione sulla garanzia della qualità e ha incluso due presentazioni:

• Miglioramento della...

Contingency management (CM) is a psychological treatment based on operant conditioning. It consists of providing incentives in exchange for achieving a target behaviour such as abstinence or other treatmentrelated variables (e.g. session...

Sfondo

La mancata presentazione dell'appuntamento e l'abbandono precoce del trattamento rappresentano le principali sfide nel trattamento ambulatoriale dei disturbi da uso di sostanze, influenzando negativamente i risultati clinici...

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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...

Obiettivo: Determinare la qualità della vita correlata alla salute (HRQoL) dei pazienti in trattamento di mantenimento con metadone a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Soggetto e metodi: Uno studio trasversale è stato condotto su 967 pazienti in...

ISSUP Nigeria vorrebbe invitarti a partecipare al loro prossimo webinar bimestrale nella serie di aggiornamento delle conoscenze. L'argomento del webinar sarà Oltre la dipendenza: disturbi indotti dall'alcol.

Obiettivi formativi:

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Presented as part of the Uniting the global community to face the challenge of addiction event, in-person on 13th May, 2022

Presentations:

• Keynote WHO - Dr Vladimir Poznyak MD, PhD
• Keynote UNODC - Giovanna Campello
• ICQ Official...

Presented as part of the Uniting the global community to face the challenge of addiction event, in-person on 12th of May,2022

Presentations:

• Advocacy! Making Your Voice Known for Drug Demand Reduction - US. Senator Mattie Hunter
• Dev...

Background

Recently developed buprenorphine depot injections have the potential to reduce risk for diversion and misuse, and to increase adherence with fewer visits for supervised intake. However, it is unclear how patients perceive this...