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ISSUP Argentina presents Part II of its two-part webinar series on harmful use of technological devices and substance use in children and adolescents.

ISSUP Argentina is pleased to present its webinar on harmful use of technological devices and substance consumption.

Medication of the type heralded as a possible “game-changer” by one of the UK’s leading addiction treatment clinicians and researchers proved its worth in a US placebo-controlled trial. Buprenorphine injections with effects lasting a month...

*Updated with UK licensing information and advice released in February 2019 by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence* What could prove a technical advance in the medication-based treatment of dependence on heroin and allied...

Opinion is sharply divided on the ethics and effectiveness of pressuring opioid-dependent offenders to take the opiate-blocker naltrexone. Especially sharp is the controversy over long-acting products not approved for medical use in the UK...

Like methadone for heroin dependence, modafinil is an oral medication with similar effects to cocaine but milder, slower in onset and longer-acting - properties which might help plug the gap in effective pharmacotherapies for dependence on...

In 2013 nalmefene was authorised for moderating drinking among patients not in need of detoxification, extending pharmacotherapy to less dependent drinkers. Though uniquely authorised for this purpose, this review found other (and probably...