All Resources for 'Community-Based Recovery and Treatment'

Like Sugar for Adults: The Effect of Non-Dependent Parental Drinking on Children & Families

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Family
Public Health

This study set out to explore the effect of non-dependent parental drinking on children, making a direct link between parental drinking habits and the attitudes, behaviours and impacts reported by their children.

It explores the effect of...

Direct Marketing Promotion and Electronic Cigarette Use among US Adults

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Scientific article
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Men
Women
Public Health

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Introduction

The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among US adults has increased since 2007. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of direct marketing promotion of e-cigarettes and its...

Blood Alcohol Concentration-Related Lower Performance in Immediate Visual Memory and Working Memory in Adolescent Binge Drinkers

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Men
Women
Public Health

The binge drinking (BD) pattern of alcohol consumption is prevalent during adolescence, a period characterized by critical changes to the structural and functional development of brain areas related with memory and cognition. There is...

World Mental Health Day 2017

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women
Mental Health

Dhaka: World Mental Health Day

Speakers at a press conference at Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) called for taking comprehensive steps for preventing the use of drugs among women, saying that drug addiction affects women's mental health as...

Associations of Perceived Interparental Relationship, Family Harmony and Family Happiness with Smoking Intention in Never-Smoking Chinese Children and Adolescents

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Populations
Family

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Objective: To examine the associations of perceived interparental relationship, family harmony and family happiness with smoking intention in never-smoking Chinese children and adolescents in Hong Kong.

Design, settings and...

Childhood Matters: Alcohol and Drug Problems from a Child Rights Perspective

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Book
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Addiction
Populations
Family
Men

Millions of children globally suffer as a consequence of the use of intoxicating substances like alcohol and illicit drugs. This is an important, but too often neglected, child rights issue. The new FORUT publication “Childhood matters”...

Patterns of Polydrug Use among Pregnant Substance Abusers

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Scientific article
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Treatment
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Addiction
Populations
Women

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Aim:

Studies of drug use during pregnancy have generally focused on individual substances or specific combinations of drugs. The aim of this article is to increase our knowledge about polydrug use and pregnancy in a Nordic...

National Academy of Medicine Releases New Special Publication Guide

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health

September 21, 2017

Halting the opioid epidemic requires aggressive action across multiple dimensions, including informed, active, and determined front-line leadership from health clinicians working in every setting throughout the nation...

CICAD Hemispheric Guidelines on School-Based Prevention

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Prevention
School-Based
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Family
Partner Organisation

As developed by CICAD's Expert Group on Demand Reduction and approved by the Commission in 2004, these guidelines speak to strategies to conduct research, create educational materials, train teachers, and carry out and evaluate prevention...

Chemsex: An Emergent Phenomenon

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Scientific article
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Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Men

Chemsex is the term given to the intentional use of psychoactive drugs in order to maintain sexual relations between men who have sex with men (MSM), usually for long periods of time and with multiple partners. This phenomenon has also been...