substance abuse

Canadian Guidelines on Alcohol Use Disorder Among Older Adults

Scientific article

23 March 2020

Open Access article: Abstract Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is an increasingly common, under-recognized, and under-treated health concern in older adults. Its prevalence is expected to reach unprecedented levels as the Canadian...

The Lived Experiences of Recovering Filipino Persons who Use Drugs (PWUDS) without Family Support

Book

31 December 2020

The Philippines’s war on drugs brought about an influx or people of who use drugs (PWUDs) availing of community-based drug rehabilitation services for treatment. Programs have been created to develop skills to avoid relapse and improve...

UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics Volume LXII, 2019- Drugs in the Nigerian Population

Scientific article

The present issue of the Bulletin (vol. LXII, 2019), whose guest editor is Isidore Obot, professor of Psychology, University of Uyo, and Director of the Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, Uyo, Nigeria, is focused on the...

COVID-19 and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: International and Local Perspectives

11 August 2020

South Africa

COVID-19, along with the associated restrictions, has and continues to impact on the access to and provision of health care services. This talk hones in on the impact of services for substance use disorders, presenting new insights arising from current research. Hosted by the South Africa HIV Addiciton Technology Transfer Centre (UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health), and SANCA National.

Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics

Book

2 April 2020

Coronavirus is one of the most significant public health challenges we have faced in the past 100 years. Everyone is effected. However, the strain is particularly great for those working on the front line to detect and treat people who have...

Revista Internacional de Investigación en Adicciones

Book

La Revista Internacional de Investigación en Adicciones (RIIAD), editada por Centros de Integración Juvenil A.C., tiene el propósito de desarrollar una plataforma para la publicación semestral bilingüe (español e inglés) de hallazgos...

Managaluru Police Cracks Whips against Substance Use

News

With the police department’s repeated pleas to educational institutes to crack the whip against rampant substance abuse in their campuses and hostels falling on deaf years, the police have warned they will raid the institutions armed with...

Free Webinar: Brief Interventions for Preventing Youth Alcohol, Marijuana and E-cigarette Use

Video and audio recordings

11 October 2019

Webinar Objectives: Identify models of brief intervention for preventing substance use among youth List evidence-based brief interventions for preventing youth and young adult substance use Explore evidence and resources supporting the use...

The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Substance Misuse: A Critical Review of the Literature

Scientific article

ABSTRACT Background: In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings are brought together in a comprehensive review...

Free Webinar: How Prevention Specialists Can Address Multiple Adolescent Health Behaviors

Video and audio recordings

12 September 2019

Webinar Objectives: Describe how US adolescents are at risk for multiple co-occurring health risks Apply the Behavior-Image Model (BIM) to develop messages that integrate substance use prevention with wellness promotion Identify how...