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Marijuana is consumed to a lesser extent than alcohol and tobacco. The age of greatest frequency of consumption coincides with the reproductive age. Cannabinoids have kinetic characteristics and mechanisms of action that pose a...

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Background and objectives

Cancer morbidity and mortality rates remain high, and thus, at present, considerable efforts are focused on finding drugs with higher sensitivity against tumor cells and fewer side effects...

Proper guidelines for professionals are essential in providing quality services. With this in mind, Dhaka Ahsania Mission Health Sector organized a day-long consultation workshop on June 2, 2022, under the JPRPHRPC project supported by GIZ...

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Importance  There is a need to tailor treatments to patients who are most likely to derive the greatest benefit from them to improve patient outcomes and enhance cost-effectiveness of cancer therapies.

Objective  To compare...

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Opioid overdose remains a public health crisis in diverse communities. Between 2019 and 2020, there was an almost 40% increase in drug fatalities primarily due to opioid analogues of both stimulants and opioids. Medications...

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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...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been found to be effective for treating a variety of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This webinar will review the CBT model of substance use, as well as practical treatment strategies and tools in...

During this webinar you will learn how to:

-Discuss research findings related to brain recovery following the use of stimulants.

-Recall evidence-based behavioural interventions found to be effective in treating people with a...

During this webinar you will learn how to: 

• Discuss the foundations for incorporating neuroscience into clinical practice
• Describe a neuroscience informed model of SUD treatment
• Apply a model of stress, relationship, and SUD
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This workshop is Part 2 of a set of presentations on the integration of neuroscience with SUD treatment. Part 1 laid a foundation for ethical practice. Part 2 describes the application of a metaphoric model of neuroscience-informed...

Effective substance use disorder (SUD) treatment requires providers to understand what an individual genuinely needs to do to change substance use behaviours. An essential element in motivational SUD interventions is helping people who...

The Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) has gathered a selection of videos to demonstrate core skills and techniques that are used within motivational interviewing.

You can view the collection of videos here.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client‐centred, semi‐directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. The intervention is used widely, and therefore it is important to find out...

The Essentials of.... is a series developed by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) that offers evidence-based guidance and practical information to enhance practice in the substance use field.

Here, you can find out...

In this webinar series, hosted by the South Africa International Technology Transfer Centre in collaboration with MI & Beyond, William Miller and Stephen Rollnick, co-founders of Motivational Interviewing engage with clinicians and...

Two days International Family Medicine Conference has been arranged at Avari Hotel in Lahore Pakistan on May 21 and 22, 2022. The organizers were the team members of WONCA SAR. The guest speaker/trainer invited to grace these initiatives...

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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness in the world today. Prenatal cigarette smoke exposure (PCSE) is a particularly insidious form because so many of its associated health effects befall the unborn child and...

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Importance  Significant disparities exist in smoking behaviors by sexual minority status in the US.

Objective  To examine potential differences in the associations between exposure to the Tips From Former Smokers (Tips)...

Drug addiction has been a major public health problem bringing a heavy burden to patients, families and society in China historically and contemporarily. In the recent two decades, animal and clinical research on mechanisms, trajectories...