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Two new tobacco cessation medicines added to the WHO essential medicines list
Every two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes its Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), a collection of medicines considered essential by WHO experts.
The purpose of the list is to guide national authorities on the...
National Trauma and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis
ISSUP Lebanon are pleased to present their Webinar on National Trauma and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis.
The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction
ISSUP Kenya are pleased to present their Webinar on the cyclic relationship between trauma and addiction and the implication in treatment.
A Conversation About Corruption in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Elizabeth Saenz, UNODC, presents on the issue of patient abuse and corruption in treatment and provides a call to action on the need to address this problem that spans across countries.
Lifelong consequences of prenatal drug exposure
This webinar explored the issues of infants withdrawing from maternal drugs of addiction, and problems beyond the newborn period.
Newborn drug withdrawal is often attributed to maternal opioids, but many other drugs can cause serious...
Smoking and drinking- Selected articles from the journal of alcohol and alcoholism
The featured articles investigate the association of smoking products and alcohol consumption, identify causes and influences, and explore therapeutic avenues and cessation interventions.
Free to access until 31 January!
Articles
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Considerations for Virtual Services and Supports for Substance Use and Concurrent Disorders [Policy Brief]
The Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) in partnership with the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, the Canadian Psychological Association and Canada Health Infoway, collected national data on the experience and...
Study: Combined treatments are the most effective to stop smoking
This is a study, led by the University of Bristol, and published in Addiction Journal. It was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the research partner of the NHS, public health and social care.
The most effective...
Addiction treatment in India: Legal, ethical and professional concerns reported in the media
This study is a content analysis of newspaper reports from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019 looking into legal, ethical and professional concerns regarding the treatment of substance use disorders in India.
2021 NDARC Annual Research Symposium Recordings
The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) held the 2021 Annual Research Symposium on the 20 - 22 October 2021.
Here you can see recordings of all of the sessions from the three days.
Session One
Topic: Emerging...
NIDA Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention
Mark your calendars for the annual Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention, November 1-2, 2021. Open to the public, the event provides a forum for the latest topics in neuroscience and addiction research. Register online: loom.ly...
The origin, development and current status of the health profession of an addictologist in the Czech Republic in the broader context of the development of the addictology field
In the 1990s, new addiction services began to emerge that had a shortage of appropriately qualified and trained practitioners. This impulse led to the establishment of the health profession of an ADDICTOLOGIST in the Czech Republic. In the...
The SSA guide to academic posters
The Society for the Study of Addiction have developed a guide for creating academic posters.
The resource contains information on:
- Tailoring your poster to your audience
- Presentation
- Telling a story
- Topic
- Accessibility
- Inclu...
Trends in healthcare expenditures and resource utilization among a nationally representative population with opioids in the United States: a serial cross-sectional study, 2008 to 2017
One of the most serious public health concerns in recent decades has been the opioid epidemic in the United States (US). Over 9.9 million Americans aged 12 and up abused prescription pain drugs in 2018, and roughly 2 million Americans were...
Identifying NGOs working on drug treatment in humanitarian settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and specifically the Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS) are working on addressing substance use and substance use disorders in humanitarian settings.
In this context...
Advances in Addiction and Recovery
Advances in Addiction & Recovery, the official publication of NAADAC, is a quarterly digital magazine focused on providing useful, innovative and timely information on trends and best practices in the profession that are beneficial for...
Prof. Thomas Babor received an honorary degree from Charles University
Thomas F. Babor is a renowned researcher and professor of Public Health Studies at the University of Connecticut and author of more than 15 books and the editor of Publishing Addiction Science. In the late 1980s, Prof. Babor was one of the...
The Pregnancy Edit
The Society for the Study on Addiction (SSA) Pregnancy Edit is a series of articles on alcohol-related harm in pregnancy, published on the Society for the Study of Addiction website in September 2021.
Topic covered include:
- the...
Assessing the Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the UK
In a new study, led by a team at the University of Salford, evidence has been found to suggest fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a significant issue among the population, likely to be as common as autism, despite being rarely...
Research led by people who use drugs: centering the expertise of lived experience
Despite a long history of successful, community-led harm reduction programs and rising health inequalities suffered by PWUD, research collaborations between PWUD and researchers remain generally ignored. PWUDs are crucial in identifying...