All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Medications for Opioid Overdose, Withdrawal & Addiction

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Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Partner Organisation

This infographic shows the different types of medications prescribed for opioid overdose, withdrawal, and addiction.

Medications for opioid addiction, overdose, and withdrawal work in various ways.

  • Opioid Receptor Agonist: Medications...

Managing Co-occuring Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Health Conditions

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Website
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Mental Health

This website provides evidence-based information, training and resources to assist with the management of co-occurring, or comorbid, AOD and mental health conditions. 

The content is based on the second edition of the “Guidelines on the...

COVID-19 Perceived Impact and Psychological Variables as Predictors of Unhealthy Food and Alcohol Consumption Trajectories: The Role of Gender and Living with Children as Moderators

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Format
Scientific article
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Populations
Men
Women

Abstract

The present study examines the trajectories of unhealthy food and alcohol consumption over time and considers whether perceived impact of COVID-19 and psychological variables are predictors of these trajectories. We ascertained...

The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM) in Scotland

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News
Themes
Prevention
Public Health

The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM, also known as ‘Planet Youth’) is a community-based approach aiming to prevent young people’s substance use through reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors. 

A new team, based in Dundee...

Contribution of Sport and Sport-based Interventions to Substance Use Prevention

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Video and audio recordings
Themes
Prevention
Partner Organisation

Building on the UNODC Global Initiative on Youth Crime Prevention through Sport and its Line Up Live Up programme, the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, and relevant research on the contribution of sport to healthy...

Ring us, FICT: "Well the delegation to anti-drug policies to Minister Dadone. Start collaborative work starting from the centrality of the person and not of the substance"

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News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Family

Luciano Squillaci, FICT President: "We express satisfaction for several reasons: because the delegation to anti-drug policies has finally been assigned after years of emptiness, because it has been assigned to a Ministry and because it is a...

Natural Recovery by the Liver and Other Organs After Chronic Alcohol Use

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support

ABSTRACT

Chronic, heavy alcohol consumption disrupts normal organ function and causes structural damage in virtually every tissue of the body. Current diagnostic terminology states that a person who drinks alcohol excessively has alcohol...

Who is an Addiction Professional?

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Format
ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
ISSUP Kenya are pleased to present their Webinar on 'Who is an Addiction Professional?'

The rapidly changing composition of the global street drug supply and Its effects on high-risk groups for COVID-19

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Public Health
The majority of street drugs, in some cases more than ninety-five percent, now have multiple toxic adulterants. This research review brings to the attention of public health officials, addiction medicine specialists, treatment officials, therapists, and the general public the alarming increase of dangerous toxic adulterants being added to street drugs and their potentially lethal synergistic effects.