Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Renette J Blignaut, Innocent Karangwa, Elizabeth Weybright, Linda Lee Caldwell, Edward Allan Smith
South African youth experience many challenges including unemployment, poverty, disorganised families, health...
Kristin Martinsen, Simon-Peter Neumer, Solveig I Holen, Anne Mari Sund, Joshua Patras, Lene-Mari Rasmussen, Frode Adolfsen, Mona Elisabeth Løvaas, Marit Loetveit Pedersen, Trine Waaktaar
Introduction: Anxiety and depression are common...
Luis G. A. Vinha, Nayara D M A A Khouri, Sheila Giardini Murta
The use of both illegal and legal drugs among adolescents poses a serious problem to societies worldwide. In this sense, it is fundamental to determine the risk and protective...
The goal of this guideline is to improve the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD), as defined by DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013). The guideline focuses specifically on...
NIDA Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows from Virginia Commonwealth University participated in the Third Annual Meeting of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals. More than 3,000 participants attended the meeting for drug treatment...
Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to reducing substance use in adolescents. An emerging literature shows the promise of school-based SBIRT. However, most school-based...
Los factores de riesgo/protección (fRP) representan elementos fundamentales para el análisis, comprensión y formulación de respuestas preventivas de las drogodependencias. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar una revisión de la...
Key studies on the role of management and supervision in the treatment of problem drug use. Commentary asks, “Is there anything more instructive than *being* the patient?”, explores the role of patient choice and preferences in treatment...
Objectives: There is a shift in the smoking population from daily smokers to light or occasional smokers. The knowledge about possible adverse health effects of this new smoking pattern is limited. We investigated smoking habits...
