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Estimating Treatment Coverage for People with Substance Use Disorders: An Analysis of Data from the World Mental Health Surveys

Scientific article

21 September 2017

Abstract Substance use is a major cause of disability globally. This has been recognized in the recent United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in which treatment coverage for substance use disorders is identified as one of the...

Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services

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For anyone interested in digital health behaviour interventions this manual from SAMHSA will prove interesting. Exploring how technology-assisted care can be implemented, the value of technology based assessments and the ways in which the...

Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services

Adolescent Executive Dysfunction in Daily Life: Relationships to Risks, Brain Structure and Substance Use

Scientific article

13 November 2017

During adolescence, problems reflecting cognitive, behavioral and affective dysregulation, such as inattention and emotional dyscontrol, have been observed to be associated with substance use disorder (SUD) risks and outcomes. Prior studies...

Parental Alcohol Misuse and Children

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9 February 2018

Parental Alcohol Misuse (PAM) can negatively affect children’s physical and mental health, and other outcomes including educational attainment and behaviour. Effects can be acute when experienced in conjunction with other adverse...

Drug and Alcohol Treatment in England 2016/17

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13 February 2018

Updating the previous year’s “really brilliant analysis” (Professor Susanne MacGregor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), our analysis of the performance of England’s drug and alcohol treatment system up to 2016/17. With the...

Alcohol: no ordinary consumer product

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From a public health perspective, alcohol consumption plays an important role in the causation of disability, illness and death on a global scale. It also contributes substantially to the family dysfunction, violence and psychiatric...

Substance Use among a Sample of Healthcare Workers in Kenya

Scientific article

2 August 2016

ABSTRACT This study describes reported substance use among Kenyan healthcare workers (HCWs), as it has implications for HCWs’ health, productivity, and their ability and likelihood to intervene on substance use. The Alcohol Smoking and...

Motivation to Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Subsequent Attempts at Reduction and Changes in Consumption in Increasing and Higher-Risk Drinkers in England

Scientific article

25 January 2018

Abstract Aims To assess how far motivation to reduce alcohol consumption in increasing and higher-risk drinkers in England predicts self-reported attempts to reduce alcohol consumption and changes in alcohol intake during the following 6...

Oxytocin Prevents Ethanol Actions at δ Subunit-Containing GABAA Receptors and Attenuates Ethanol-Induced Motor Impairment in Rats

Scientific article

10 March 2015

Abstract Even moderate doses of alcohol cause considerable impairment of motor coordination, an effect that substantially involves potentiation of GABAergic activity at δ subunit-containing GABAAreceptors (δ-GABAARs). Here, we demonstrate...

Cost-Effectiveness Study of Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Abuse in Mexico

Scientific article

1 September 2010

Abstract Introduction In Mexico, alcohol abuse involves overhead costs in terms of premature mortality caused by their related health problems. It is estimated that by itself it implies 9% of the total burden of disease in the country...

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