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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...
Whole Family Recovery
This document provides an overview of themes that emerged from the Adfam’s Whole Family Recovery and Alcohol Focus Groups and interviews. This research was conducted to scope the impacts of the recovery of someone with an alcohol problem on...
Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence
This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were:
- To...
Validità e affidabilità del test di screening per il coinvolgimento di alcol, fumo e sostanze (ASSIST) negli studenti universitari
L'Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), sviluppato dall'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS), è stato utilizzato con successo in molti paesi, ma ci sono pochi studi sulla sua validità e affidabilità per...
Drug and Alcohol Related Bereavement - Scoping Review
Adfam and Cruse Bereavement Care carried out a four year drug and alcohol related bereavement project funded by the Big Lottery and running from 2010-14. The purpose of this review is to create a solid evidence-base from which the project...
Consultation Findings for the BEAD Project
Adfam and Cruse Bereavement Care undertook an exploration of the experiences of families and friends bereaved through drug and/ or alcohol use, with the aim of developing a range of peer support services and targeted information...
Tra l'incudine e il martello: come i genitori si comportano con i bambini che usano sostanze e perpetrano abusi
Questo rapporto è stato scritto da Adfam e Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) e copre i processi e i risultati di un progetto congiunto condotto dalle due organizzazioni nel 2011/12 sulla violenza e l'abuso da bambino a genitore. Rivela che...
Proprietà psicometriche e diagnostiche del test di screening dell'abuso di droga (DAST): confronto tra DAST-20 e DAST-10
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L'uso di questionari di auto-segnalazione affidabili e validi per identificare i disturbi da uso di droghe (DUD) è una strategia che ha dimostrato utilità per lo screening. Uno degli strumenti più utilizzati per il rilevamento...
Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children – One Year on
This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the debate on reducing the risks to children...
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...
Families, Drugs and Alcohol - Policy and Research since 1984
The past 30 years has seen a huge amount of change in the policy, practice and politics around both families and drug/alcohol (‘substance’) use. Laws, behaviours and public perceptions have all altered substantially. As part of Adfam’s 30th...
Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...
Enzymes Involved in Cocaine Metabolism: A New Pharmacologic Approach to Treat Overdose Due to Cocaine
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Introduction: New therapeutic strategies against cocaine overdose toxicity have been developed. These new approaches are based on the design and synthesis of proteins involved in the destruction of cocaine before...
Revisione del sistema di trattamento dell'abuso di droga in Inghilterra
La revisione recentemente pubblicata da Public Health England rivela che il sistema di trattamento dell'abuso di droga del paese sta funzionando bene. Tuttavia, ci sono ancora diversi settori che richiedono miglioramenti.
Tra i...
Parental Socioeconomic Status and Teenage Smoking Rates: What's the Link?
In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?
This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at...
Trattare la dipendenza da alcol con relazioni positive
Una "alleanza terapeutica", o in altre parole, una relazione positiva e di fiducia tra consulente e paziente, potrebbe essere la chiave per il successo del trattamento della dipendenza da alcol, secondo un nuovo studio. I pazienti che hanno...
ESPAD Report 2015
The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.
The latest...
Rivelato: Il costo globale del fumo
Il fumo e i suoi danni correlati costano al mondo più di 1 trilione di dollari e reclamano la vita di circa 6 milioni di persone ogni anno, secondo un nuovo rapporto dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS) e del National Cancer...
I molteplici effetti sulla salute dell'uso di marijuana
Nel suo primo rapporto dopo quasi 20 anni, la National Academy of Sciences (NAS), ha scoperto che l'uso della marijuana sembra essere particolarmente connesso a:
- Problemi respiratori
- Problemi di salute mentale come psicosi, ansia...
