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Emotional Attachment Behavioral Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Behavioral Health Treatment

13 March 2024

Online

Time: 3:00PM - 4:30PM Eastern Time

Rehabilitation of Executive Functions in Users of Addictive Substances. Study Protocol

Scientific article

9 October 2023

BACKGROUND: Substance use increases the risk of damage to executive and cognitive functions. Manifested by a range of clinical symptoms, such impairments may affect people’s coping with everyday activities and their abilities to establish...

The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities

Scientific article

12 January 2024

In a new editorial in World Psychiatry, Prof. Helen L. Fisher discusses how public health must recognise the influence of social circumstances and experiences and calls for lived experience to be at the centre of this revolution. Fisher...

The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities

Treating Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders through a Recovery Lens

25 January 2024

Online

TIME: 12PM - 1PM Eastern Time

DESCRIPTION

This event will highlight principles for effective and integrative

“I’m almost opioid-a-phobic”: family medicine residents’ perceptions of enhancing opioid analgesic and agonist treatment training in a Canadian setting

Scientific article

9 May 2023

Purpose As deaths from the illicit drug poisoning crisis continue to rise in Canada, increasing the number of healthcare professionals qualified to effectively prescribe opioids could be beneficial. The willingness of family medicine...

WAVE Bursaries to attend Lisbon Addictions 2024

News

The WAVE bursary application process is open from 24/10/2023 to 31/1/2024.

Residential addiction treatment for adolescents is scarce and expensive

News

8 January 2024

NIH-supported analysis finds just seven states had a facility that accepted Medicaid, had a bed open the same day, and offered buprenorphine

Stigmatizing imagery for substance use disorders: a qualitative exploration

Scientific article

4 July 2023

This study used qualitative methods to identify stigmatizing and non-stigmatizing imagery for SUD and explore the reactions of people with lived experience with SUD to SUD-related imagery. We conducted focus groups and brief semi-structured qualitative interviews with 14 individuals in recovery from a range of SUD.

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Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)

ISSUP Webinar

25 January 2024

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session).

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)

25 January 2024

Lagos

Nigeria

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to the 20th session of its next bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic of 'Brief Intervention for : ASSIST Model.'