Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Treatment
Guide for health care professionals - helping patients who drink too much
Guide aimed at professionals of health to work with people from drinking alcohol in excess This guide has been written for primary care health and mental health professionals. It has been produced by the National Institute on the Alcohol...
2018 Recovery Capital Conference of Canada
Recovery Capital conference is a two-day event designed to provide accessible, accredited, and multi-disciplinary professional education on recovery capital and will bring together stakeholders in the recovery and addiction space to share and collaborate on the many facets of what recovery means today. The conference will feature international researchers, clinicians, policy makers and impactful key-note speakers.
Dual Disorders in Individuals under Treatment for both Alcohol and Cocaine
Abstract Introduction: Descriptive data about co-occurrence of alcohol and cocaine consumption is scarce, despite its important prevalence. Dual disorders show high prevalence in clinical samples, and patients report worse evolution and...
Estimating Treatment Coverage for People with Substance Use Disorders: An Analysis of Data from the World Mental Health Surveys
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...
Online Course: Opioid Problems, Treatment Solutions
An online course for health care providers in Ontario
Opioid Problems, Treatment solutions is a 7-week online course intended primarily for mental health/addiction counsellors, nurses and allied service providers who work with people with opioid issues. The course presents information on treatment strategies for people who are experiencing problematic opioid use.
Who is this training intended for?
Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services
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...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix Row 2: Cross-Modality Fundamentals
Time to consolidate the lessons of the five cells in row 2 of the Drug Treatment Matrix. Whether medical or psychosocial, if you work in/with treatment, this is your chance to lift your eyes from the workbench and reconsider what it’s all...
Online seminar: "CT-R implementation throughout the system, lessons of success"
What is cognitive therapy (CT-R) recovery-oriented and how you can address mental disorders on a large scale?
Webinar: "Implementation of CT-R Across a System, Lessons of Success"
What is Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) and how can it address mental disorders on a wide scale?
A Systematic Review on the Use of Psychosocial Interventions in Conjunction with Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Addiction
Abstract Opioid use and overdose rates have risen to epidemic levels in the United States during the past decade. Fortunately, there are effective medications (i.e. methadone, buprenorphine, and oral and injectable naltrexone) available for...