Clinical Guidelines

Improving Quality of Life: Substance Use and Ageing

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The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has released a resource focusing on substance use in ageing populations. The document covers the consequences of substance use in older adults, health conditions which might occur...
Improving Quality of Life: Substance Use and Ageing

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Ethos, Dose, Organisation

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Seminal work from Australia identified these as the three pillars of medication-based treatment of drug dependence; they form the kernel of this bite’s exploration of organisational influences on these treatments. Ethos, dose, and...

How to Adapt Existing Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Abstract Objective: To develop and encourage the adoption of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for smoking cessation in Canada by engaging stakeholders in the adaptation of existing high-quality CPGs using principles of the ADAPTE...

Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management

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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...

Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management

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Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems. This 2017 version offers new guidelines on: prison-based treatment new psychoactive substances and club drugs mental health co-morbidity...

Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician’s Guide

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Introduction This Guideis written for primary care and mental health clinicians. It has been produced by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),a component of the National Institutes of Health, with guidance from...