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Alcohol-Related Liver Disease: Guidance for Good Practice

24 October 2017

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) is pleased to invite you to the national launch of SHAAP’s ‘Alcohol-related liver disease: Guidance for Good Practice’ and delighted that Dr Catherine Calderwood, the Chief Medical Officer, has agreed to speak.

Review Article: Recent Insights into Clinical Decision-Making in Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis

Scientific article

21 May 2017

Summary Background Alcoholic hepatitis is a severe acute manifestation of alcoholic liver disease with a high mortality. Management of patients with this condition has been a matter of controversy for many years; however, recent clinical...

More Reasons to Move: Exercise in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders

Scientific article

28 August 2017

Physical exercise is widely regarded as “medicine” for the prevention and treatment of myriad somatic health conditions. Studies also demonstrate that exercise is effective in the treatment of common mental disorders and has a role in the...

Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

Scientific article

1 August 2017

ABSTRACT Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy...

Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction

Book

23 August 2017

Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches. In other words, thanks to scientific advances...

Is it possible to have a real fight?

Book

21 July 2017

Geraldine González Williman is an expert in the prevention and treatment of addictions of legal or illegal drugs. In this interview, details on the plans of action applicable to the Paraguay to combat a scourge that every day grows more...

Strategies to Facilitate Integrated Care for People with Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

Scientific article

7 April 2017

Abstract Background There is a growing body of research highlighting the potential benefits of integrated care as a way of addressing the needs of people with alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, given the broad range of other issues...

Webinar: Understanding Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome for the General Pediatrician

23 August 2017

Webinar

United States

Presenters: Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, FAAP, AAP Committee on Substance Use and Prevention

Brenda Poindexter, MD, MS, FAAP, AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn

EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse

Book

15 August 2017

Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...

Equipping Community Pharmacy Workers as Agents for Health Behaviour Change

Scientific article

1 August 2017

Abstract Objective: To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates. Design: Following the Medical Research Council framework, we used a mixed-methods...