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Background 

In the United States, access to buprenorphine remains low and disparities regarding who receives treatment have emerged. Federal laws have regulated buprenorphine delivery, ultimately limiting its implementation more broadly...

Background

Beginning in the 1990s, non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) became a major public health crisis. In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the...

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to attend their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Beyond Dependence: Alcohol-induced Disorders.

Learning Outcomes:

•    Sensitization to the wide range...

Presented by Jo Cassar (The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney), by the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

- Recognise the importance of assessing for substance use when a...

Presented by Associate Professor Sarah Maguire (Director, InsideOut Institute), by attending this webinar, attendees will learn:

- How to recognise the most common eating disorder symptoms;

- Eating disorder interventions and how workers...

The Ministry of Health has been advised to add two non-nicotine drugs to Kenya’s Essential Medicines List, to help smokers quit tobacco and nicotine addiction.

The World Health Organization said the two drugs bring “a powerful shift in the...

Η χρήση ουσιών και οι ανάγκες ψυχικής υγείας είναι δύο από τις κύριες ανησυχίες για πολλούς ανθρώπους που αντιμετωπίζουν πολλαπλά μειονεκτήματα. Γνωρίζουμε ότι οι άνθρωποι που αντιμετωπίζουν και τα δύο προβλήματα ταυτόχρονα (γνωστά και ως ...

This paper aimed to review the literature regarding the impact of discrimination on substance use disorders among Sexual Minorities, with a focus on alcohol, opioids, stimulants, polydrug use, chemsex, cannabis and tobacco, as well as...

In this presentation, the speakers reported the results of a series of three population-based cohort studies relating to the use and effects of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies. The first of these studies provided evidence on how the...

Abstract

Importance  Prenatal smoking is a known modifiable risk factor for stillbirth; however, the contribution of prenatal drinking or the combination of smoking and drinking is uncertain.

Objective  To examine whether prenatal...

INTRODUCTION:

Access to drug treatment services in Nigeria remains low due to a severe shortage in the drug treatment workforce. Plans are underway to address the workforce shortage by introducing drug addiction training programs in...

Various NPS have significantly changed the picture of drug use in different countries. They are now very prominent in the drug market. Indeed, many of these substances are intended to circumvent drug laws and are sold as ‘legal’...

Σε συνεργασία με το Βασιλικό Κολλέγιο Ψυχιάτρων, το Έργο NEPTUNE έχει αναπτύξει εκπαιδευτικές ενότητες για τη βελτίωση της κλινικής πρακτικής στη διαχείριση των βλαβών που προκύπτουν από τη χρήση φαρμάκων και νέων ψυχοδραστικών ουσιών.

Αυτ...

Αυτό το έγγραφο παρέχει καθοδήγηση σχετικά με την κλινική διαχείριση των βλαβών που προκύπτουν από οξεία δηλητηρίαση και από την επιβλαβή και εξαρτημένη χρήση ναρκωτικών και νέων ψυχοδραστικών ουσιών (NPS). 

Πρόκειται για μια εκτενή και...

Το Εγχειρίδιο Νέων Ψυχοτρόπων Ουσιών (NPS) παρέχει μια ολοκληρωμένη επισκόπηση των προκλήσεων που αντιμετωπίζουν οι κλινικοί γιατροί όταν ασχολούνται με NPS και συζητά πώς το προφίλ των ασθενών και τα κοινωνικοδημογραφικά χαρακτηριστικά...