Quality and the Workforce
ISSUP Quality in Treatment Network and ISSUP UK are pleased to present this Webinar on Quality and the Workforce. This Webinar looks into the role of the workforce in ensuring quality drug use disorder treatment services.
All Resources for 'Education & Training'
Attitudes towards consumption, sensation seeking and alcohol consumption. Model of partial mediation in Ecuadorian adolescents
Objective: To determine the mediated effect of sensation-seeking on the relationship between attitudes to alcohol consumption and consumption in a sample of adolescents from Ecuador. Method: Descriptive predictive and mediation study with...
Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...
Alcohol and self-harm: A qualitative study
Executive Summary
This qualitative study was commissioned by Alcohol Change UK in Wales to explore how and why alcohol and self-harm are related, and how alcohol, self-harm, and related services, are experienced and understood. Eleven...
Deconstructing Addiction
This resource has been initiated by Anthony Corballis in conjunction with Dulwich Centre Publications. You’ll find here a range of writings about addiction and ways of responding to alcohol and other drug use.
Overdose recognition and management: Reading list
According to the World Health Organisation, around half a million deaths each year are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids, with more than 30% of those deaths caused by overdose. Signs, symptoms...
Periods of altered risk for non-fatal drug overdose
The risk of an individual overdosing is influenced by a range of, often overlapping circumstances. Factors such as incarceration, mental and physical health conditions, and the treatments prescribed for these conditions can all affect the...
Substance Use in Women Deprived of Liberty: A General Approach and Recent Evidence
ISSUP Argentina held a webinar presenting a general initial framework and evidence on the characterization and approach of problematic substance use in the population of women deprived of liberty.
The webinar took place on Tuesday, October...
Identifying content-based engagement patterns in a smoking cessation website and associations with user characteristics and cessation outcomes: a sequence and cluster analysis
Tobacco smoking is the greatest cause of sickness and early death worldwide, with 8 million people dying each year from a smoking-related condition. The use of pharmaceutical or behavioural assistance improves smokers' chances of quitting...
Reprint of: Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments
Biotechnological treatment, including addiction treatment, is the way of the future. Researchers and pharmaceutical companies praise depot injections, agonist/antagonist implants, deep brain stimulation, and hapten conjugate vaccines as...