All Resources for 'Medical, Clinical & Healthcare Services'

Care and Control: How Far Should Collaboration Go? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell E5

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Treatment
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Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

CARE AND CONTROL: HOW FAR SHOULD COLLABORATION GO?

Key review argues that criminal justice and treatment conducted in a criminal justice context should see themselves as partners in a common effort, but one is geared to protecting society...

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Fifth Session)

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ISSUP Webinar
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Treatment
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Family
Women
ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present their Fifth Knowledge Update Series Webinar on the topic of 'Recovery in Substance Use Disorders: The Family as a Resource'.

Society for the Study of Addiction (SSA) Professorship Scheme

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News
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Treatment
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Addiction

The ‘SSA Addictions Professorship’ scheme aims to support individuals who are already senior academics with established expertise and who wish to move to become part of UK academic growth in addictions research, but who would face potential...

A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug‐related impairment in practice and policy

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Scientific article
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Treatment
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Addiction
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Men
Public Health
Mental Health
Drug‐related impairment is persistently stigmatized delaying and preventing treatment engagement. To reduce stigma, various medical terms (e.g. ‘chronically relapsing brain disease’, ‘disorder’) have been promoted in diagnostic systems and among national health agencies, yet some argue that over‐medicalization of drug‐related impairment lowers prognostic optimism and reduces personal agency.

‘Dangerous Data’ Part 6: Evidence Accumulates and Expert Opinion Converges about Controlled Drinking as a Treatment Goal. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic

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Treatment
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‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 6: EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES AND EXPERT OPINION CONVERGES

The heat dies down as it becomes clearer that both controlled drinking and abstinence have their place among the gaols for alcohol treatment patients, and evidence...

Drug and Alcohol Findings Focus on Women

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Treatment
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Men
Women

Drug and Alcohol Findings bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions.

The Drug and Alcohol Finding Focus on Women aims to explore...

Women and Substance Use: Reading List

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Treatment
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Women
Here, you can find a selection of papers and resources related to women and substance use.

Office-Based Addiction Treatment Retention and Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness

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Scientific article
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Treatment
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Men
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Importance  People experiencing homelessness have been disproportionately affected by the opioid overdose crisis. To mitigate morbidity and mortality, several office-based addiction treatment (OBAT) programs designed for this...

Assessment of Annual Cost of Substance Use Disorder in US Hospitals

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
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Importance  A persistently high US drug overdose death toll and increasing health care use associated with substance use disorder (SUD) create urgency for comprehensive estimates of attributable direct costs, which can assist in...