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Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Predictors of Treatment Response Following Parent Management Training: Child, Context, and Therapy Factors
Terje Gunnar Ogden, Kristine Amlund Hagen
Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) was introduced as a treatment alternative to families in both child welfare services and child psychiatric out-patient clinics in Norway, in...
The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Pharmacological Treatment of Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder
Rationale
The goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), as defined by DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). The guideline focuses specifically...
Universal School-Based Implementation of Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment to Reduce and Prevent Alcohol, Marijuana, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use
Abstract
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to reducing substance use in adolescents. An emerging literature shows the promise of school-based SBIRT. However, most school-based...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Managing Transformation
Key studies on the role of management and supervision in the treatment of problem drug use. Commentary asks, “Is there anything more instructive than *being* the patient?”, explores the role of patient choice and preferences in treatment...
Substance Use, Sleep and Intervention Design
Abstract
Background: Alcohol and other drug use is associated with poor sleep quality and quantity, but there is limited qualitative research exploring substance users’ experiences of sleep and few psychosocial sleep interventions for...
Ibero-American Initiative for Dual Disorders to Improve Public Treatment Programmes
Abstract:
Introduction: Dual disorders (DD) are defined as the co-occurrence of substance use disorders with other psychiatric disorders across the lifespan. DD represent a diagnostic dimension with clinical peculiarities and specific...
Overburdened Mental Health Providers Thwart Police Push for Drug Treatment
This article highlights the overburdened health system in West Virginia, including a shortage of behavioral treatment professionals.
Sex Differences in Cannabis Use Disorder Diagnosis Involved Hospitalizations in the United States
ABSTRACT
Objectives: The study examined sex differences in trend and clinical characteristics of cannabis use disorder (CUD) diagnosis involved hospitalizations among adult patients.
Methods: We analyzed hospitalization data from the...
Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine
Purpose
The purpose of the Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine is to provide guidance about the effective use of drug testing in the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and promotion of recovery for patients...
Quality Measurers of Therapeutic Communities for Substance Dependence
Abstract
Background
In Latin America, substance related disorders are highly prevalent and one of the treatment strategies is the Therapeutic Communities (TCs), however, in Latin America there is scarce data about this treatment...
Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe
This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...
Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco
'Million Hearts' is an initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by promoting evidence-based intervention through communities, health systems, non-profit...
Keeping Youth Drug Free
Keeping Youth Drug Free is a new publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Aimed at parents, the guide offers advice for keeping children substance-free. It includes a review of the latest...
Changes in Specific Substance Involvement Scores among SBIRT Recipients in an HIV Primary Care Setting
Abstract
Background
Substance use is common among people living with HIV (PLHIV) and is associated with worse outcomes along the HIV care continuum. One potentially effective clinic-based approach to addressing unhealthy substance use...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: The Face of Drug Addiction Treatment
At the front line the practitioner is to the patient the face of addiction treatment. Key research shows they can matter enormously - not so much in their formal qualifications, but in their manner with the patients. Other times it seems a...
Delivery of Screening and Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Urban Academic Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract
Background
Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for unhealthy drinking has not been widely implemented in primary care partly due to reliance on physicians to perform it.
Methods
We implemented a model of nursing...
Gambling Activates the Same Brain Pathways as Substance Addiction, New Study Finds
Problem gambling in the UK is reported to affect around 590,000 people.
The condition can be treated via a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication.
Published in the journal Translational Psychiatry...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What Is Drug Addiction Treatment for?
The first matrix cell on treatment (as opposed to harm reduction) seems a good time to ask: What is treatment there to do? ‘Cure’ addiction, or promote meaningful and productive lives? Meet patients’ wishes, or aid the government’s welfare...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix Row 1. First Task: Save Lives, Reduce Harm
Consolidates the lessons of the first five instalments of the online course on drug treatment research. The five cells in row 1 explored key research on reducing harm to the user as a result of their drug use. Prompted by HIV, from the...
Exercise in the Treatment of Youth Substance Use Disorders: Review and Recommendations
SUMMARY
Substance use disorders are one of the most common and debilitating mental health conditions experienced by youth, and several well-established risk factors exist that contribute to the development and persistence of SUDs...