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The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
The Urgent Need to Change the Current Medical Approach on Tobacco Cessation in Latin America
Absract
Despite the accumulation of scientific evidence confirming the health consequences of smoking and the new paradigm of smoking as a disease where nicotine is the drug that modifies the functional and morphological characteristics...
Participation in School Sports and Marijuana Use among Male and Female Students
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit substance among adolescents. There is a paucity in the literature on the relationship between school sports participation and marijuana use.
Systematic Review: Efficacy and Safety of Medical Marijuana in Selected Neurologic Disorders
ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the efficacy of medical marijuana in several neurologic conditions.
Methods: We performed a systematic review of medical marijuana (1948–November 2013) to address treatment of symptoms of multiple...
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...
Manifesto di Adfam per le famiglie: 5 sfide chiave per sostenere le famiglie colpite dall'uso di droghe e alcol
"Non devi usare droghe per esserne influenzato".
Nel 2010 Adfam ha identificato cinque sfide chiave per le famiglie che il governo dovrebbe affrontare, identificate dalle parti interessate in tutta l'Inghilterra. Essi erano:
- Sostenere...
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...
Voci reali nel volontariato
Adfam ha pubblicato questo kit di strumenti di volontariato per fornire tutte le informazioni, le politiche, la legge e le risorse necessarie sul volontariato, le famiglie e l'uso di sostanze.
I volontari hanno sempre svolto un ruolo...
Proprietà psicometriche e diagnostiche del test di screening dell'abuso di droga (DAST): confronto tra DAST-20 e DAST-10
ASTRATTO
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...
Synthetic Pot: non la marijuana di tuo nonno
Nei primi anni 2000 in Europa e poco dopo negli Stati Uniti, è stato riferito che forme "legali" di marijuana venivano vendute sotto il nome di K2 e / o Spice. I principi attivi nei prodotti K2 / Spice sono stati determinati come...
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...
Challenging Stigma: Tackling the Prejudice Experienced by Families of Drug and Alcohol Users
Stigma and drug use have been associated for a long time, and in recent years they have been popular topics of debate and the focus of a growing body of research. But in the same way that families have often been absent in other drug policy...
Becoming Visible: The Somali Community and Substance Use in London
In 2006 Adfam was awarded a three year grant by the Department for Communities and Local Government to work with the Somali community around substance use and family support in London. Becoming visible gives an overview of the issues...
