There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...
A new study recently published in the academic journal Addiction suggests that substance use treatment programmes that incorporate 12-step practices, such as that used by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), are more effective for combatting...
A new study that provides details of drinking habits and influential factors among Australian teenagers appears in the latest edition of the academic journal BMC Public Health.
The investigation’s findings notably include:
Pharmacogenetic studies of alcohol use disorder (AUD) have suggested that the efficacy of treatments for AUD is, in part, influenced by the genetic background of an individual. Since the frequency of...
Opioid misuse and addiction is an ongoing and rapidly evolving public health crisis, requiring innovative scientific solutions. In response, and because no existing medication is ideal for every patient, the National Institutes of Health...
San Joaquin county in California has pointed the way forward to a system which conserves treatment resources yet achieves greater reductions in drink/drug-driving incidents. The first evaluation of systematically escalating offenders to...
Saatnya untuk mengkonsolidasikan pelajaran dari lima angsuran terakhir kursus tentang perawatan yang dimaksudkan untuk melindungi masyarakat, baris terakhir dari Matriks Perawatan Alkohol. Tema umum adalah kontradiksi antara perawatan yang...
The TREATNET Quality Standards are based on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Principles of Drug Dependence Treatment and Care.
They represent a set of evidence-based standards for drug-dependence treatment.
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Penggunaan alkohol berisiko, didefinisikan sebagai tingkat konsumsi alkohol apa pun yang meningkatkan risiko bahaya bagi diri sendiri atau orang lain, adalah gangguan penggunaan zat dan masalah medis. Diakui sebagai salah satu penyebab...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) presents its Principles of Adolescent Drug Addiction Treatment.
The document focuses exclusively on the realities of substance use among youth (12 to 17 years).
Illegal substances...
This guide presents information on raising children to be drug free.
It includes:
Senior health professionals are calling for Westminster to introduce minimum unit pricing of alcohol and clampdown on drinks advertising in England.
They claim that within the next five years up to 63,000 people across the country will...
Aim and data specification
This analysis was based on monthly data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) from December 2005 to November 2016. NDTMS is taken to be a comprehensive description of drug treatment...
Multidimensional family therapy addresses:
Sebuah Dokumen Konsensus baru dari American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) muncul dalam edisi baru Journal of Addiction Medicine.
Dokumen ini memberikan rekomendasi praktis dan berbasis bukti mengenai penggunaan pengujian obat...
Long-term results from an alcohol use prevention programme developed for poor black US families with 11-year-old children reinforce the potential of an approach which engages parents and children to improve parenting and change the children...
Latar Belakang: Penggunaan tembakau di kalangan wanita lebih umum di Nepal dibandingkan dengan negara-negara Asia Tenggara lainnya. Efek penggunaannya terlihat tidak hanya pada wanita hamil, tetapi juga kesehatan janin yang sedang tumbuh...
E-cigarettes are less addictive than traditional cigarettes, according to a new study published in the journal Preventative Medicine.
That said, around 75% of e-cigarette smokers still consider themselves to be dependent on their use.
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