Addiction

Combining Medically Assisted Treatment and Twelve-Step Programming: A Perspective and Review

Scientific article

7 April 2017

ABSTRACT Background: People with severe substance use disorders require long-term rehabilitative care after the initial treatment. There is, however, a deficit in the availability of such care. This may be due both to inadequate medical...

Recovery Connects 2019

12 May 2019

Glasgow

United Kingdom

The

A Conceptual Model for Understanding Post-Release Opioid-Related Overdose Risk

Scientific article

26 March 2019

Abstract Post-release opioid-related overdose mortality is the leading cause of death among people released from jails or prisons (PRJP). Informed by the proximate determinants framework, this paper presents the Post-Release Opioid-Related...

Cues Give Clues in Relapse Prevention

Scientific article

8 April 2019

More than 85% of people who give up an addictive drug begin using it again within a year. Relapse can occur following exposure to cues that are found in the environment which trigger the memory of their drug-taking experience. These cues...

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe Conference

12 September 2019

Oslo

Norway

On 12-14th September 2019, the 19th SRNT Europe conference will be held in Oslo, Norway.

The conference will be centred around the theme of ‘Tobacco use in clinical practice and populations’, and will cover the great breadth of tobacco and nicotine research in the following topics:

· Pre-clinical/basic science

· Clinical

Western Canada Addiction Forum

3 May 2019

Kelowna

Canada

The Western Canada

Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies

14 July 2019

Williamsburg

United States

The Virginia Summer Institute for

Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Substance Use Disorder

Scientific article

27 March 2019

Abstract Introduction and Aims Cognitive impairments in substance use disorder predict treatment outcome and are assumed to differ between substances. They often go undetected, thus the current study focuses on the prevalence of and...

Drug Use In Nigeria

Book

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse (CRISA) have conducted the National Survey on Drug Use and Health in Nigeria.

Tobacco Smoking and Mortality in Asia: A Pooled Meta-Analysis

Scientific article

29 March 2019

Key Points Question: How are secular trends of tobacco smoking associated with mortality across countries or regions by birth cohorts in Asia? Findings: This pooled meta-analysis of 1 002 258 participants in 20 prospective cohort studies...