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Outcomes of Excessive Alcohol Drinkers without Baseline Evidence of Chronic Liver Disease after 15 Years Follow-Up: Heavy Burden of Cancer and Liver Disease Mortality

Publication Date

25 May 2021

Format

Scientific article

Abstract

Background

Most long-term heavy drinkers do not have clinically evident chronic liver disease (CLD). However, at any time-point, their risk of developing CLD remains unknown. We aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes of a...

Psychopathological co-morbidity in a drug-dependent population in alentejo

Publication Date

8 February 2011

Format

Scientific article

Co-morbidity or dual diagnosis is established by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the 'co-occurrence in the same individual of a dysfunction of psychoactive substance use and other psychiatric disorder' (WHO, 1995). There is a growing...

Efficacy Indicators of Four Methods in Outpatient Addiction Treatment

Format

Scientific article

Themes

Addiction

Treatment

Abstract

Background: In Portugal, as far as we know, there are no recent studies that evaluated the comparative efficacy of therapeutic modalities in addiction problems by reference to a holistic and psychosocial model of effectiveness.

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