Limited Opportunities? Caring for People with Substance Use Disorders
According to a new study, most health care professionals are given little opportunity to learn about substance abuse in pre-service educational programmes.
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ISSUP at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Earlier this week ISSUP attended the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) at the Vienna International Centre.
درک نقش مغز در اعتیاد به مواد مخدر
یافته هایی که اخیرا در علوم اعصاب و بررسی های رفتاری زیستی نشان داد و مجله علوم اعصاب نشان می دهد که مغز مسئول مشترک برای تغییر در مغز است که با سوء مصرف بیش از حد مواد مرتبط است.
این می رود در برابر فرضیات قبلی و به نظر می رسد برای...
Sporting Activity and Substance Abuse among Teens: What’s the Link?
A recent survey which looked at the drug habits of over 20,000 US high-school athletes has found those who play high-contact sports, such as hockey, are more likely to use heroin and prescription opioids for non-medicinal purposes.
The...
استراتژی های بهداشت عمومی برای جلوگیری از سندرم ممتنع نوزادان: دور بزرگ مرکز کنترل بیماری ها
بار بهداشت عمومی سندرم ممتنع کودکان
سندرم دوری از کودکان (NAS) یک سندرم ترک دارو است که اغلب در کودکان پس از قرار گرفتن در معرض رحم به مواد مخدر رخ می دهد، اگر چه مواد دیگر نیز با این سندرم همراه بوده است (1). معمولاً NAS در عرض 48–72...
Podcast: Do Tobacco Cessation Interventions Provided during Substance Abuse Treatment or Recovery Help Tobacco Users to Quit?
Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: The Talker in the Talking Route to Recovery
In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...
Can Drug Prevention Programmes Reduce Substance Use by Participants’ Friends?
Besides reducing substance use between its participants one prevention programme also reduced drug use among the friends of those who took part.
Opioids Linked to Increase in Cocaine-Related Overdose Deaths
Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...
Alcohol Use Disorders Webinar
The Progress in Mind Resource Centre held a one-hour webinar on alcohol use disorders. The webinar was delivered by Wim van den Brink, Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Amsterdam, and Steve Brinksman, GP and...
Synthetic Drugs on the Rise in Afghanistan
Seizures of methamphetamine have increased in Afghanistan, according to a new report from the United Nations drug and crime agency. It also suggests that the drug is being produced inside the country.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime...
Is There a Link Between a Father's Environment and Drug Tolerance in Children?
A new study published in the journal eLife suggest that a father’s nicotine use could have an effect on children’s risk of some diseases. The investigation found that the offspring of mice routinely exposed to nicotine developed chemical...
Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?
12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...
Cocaine Addiction Leads to Build-Up of Iron in the Brain
According to a new study, cocaine addiction may alter the way the body processes iron.
Drugs on the Brain: Neurological Scans Predict Future Substance Use
A new study published in the journal Nature has found that brain scans can predict whether or not teenagers will develop drug taking behaviours later in life.
A sample of 14-year-olds was assessed. The investigation reports that, from an...
حافظه کاری بهتر، وسوسه کمتر: سوء مصرف مواد و مکانیسم های عصبی
تحقیقات جدید منتشر شده در مجله اعتیاد نشان می دهد که حافظه کاری ضعیف و ناتوانی در کنترل انگیزه ها در دوران کودکی پیش بینی کننده های کلیدی برای سوء مصرف مواد در آینده هستند. "حافظه کاری" به ظرفیت یک نفر برای تمرکز بر روی یک کار داده شده...
سوء مصرف مواد و خطر اسکیزوفرنی
تعدادی از مطالعات به رابطه بین اسکیزوفرنی و سوء مصرف مواد نگاه کرده اند. با این حال، بسیاری از آنها حاوی محدودیت های روش شناسی مختلف است. بنابراین، عدم اطمینان، هنوز هم وجود دارد.
یک تحقیق جدید منتشر شده در مجله پزشکی روانشناسی به بررسی...
The Punjabi Problem: Drug Use in One of India’s Wealthiest Regions
According to the BBC, a recent government-conducted investigation suggests that more than 860,000 young men (15 – 35) in the Punjab region of India take drugs. This is three times the national average. Heroin is used by 53% of all...
Thousands Die without Access to Alcohol Treatment
The BBC reports that almost 8,000 high-risk drinkers died from alcohol-related causes in Wales, UK between 2005 – 2014 without having received treatment for alcohol addiction. This is despite repeated hospital and A&E admissions for as much...