All Resources for 'Medical, Clinical & Healthcare Services'

Participants Required: Online Consultation on Stigmatizing Attitudes

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Treatment
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Public Health

In response to Resolution 61/11 ‘Promoting non-stigmatizing attitudes to ensure the availability of, access to and delivery of health, care and social services for drug users’ adopted during the 61st session of the Commission on Narcotic...

Psychostimulant Use and the Brain

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Scientific article
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Treatment
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Family
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Over the past decade there has been an increase in the manufacture and use of psychostimulants in countries around the world. Around two-thirds of illicit psychostimulant users are male with average age of use for methamphetamine and...

Hepatitis C New Models of Care for Drugs Services

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Partner Organisation

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has a high prevalence in people who inject drugs in Europe, although HCV infection is both preventable and curable. 

European clinical guidelines recommend that all patients with chronic liver disease as a...

Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drugs in Australia Web Report

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Treatment
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The consumption of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs is a major cause of preventable disease and illness in Australia.

This report consolidates the most recently available information on alcohol, tobacco and other drug use in Australia, and...

Youth Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders

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Treatment
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Theories and Science
Mental Health
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70%–80% of adolescents with a substance use disorder also manifest comorbid psychopathology, known also as co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis. Co-occurring disorders are the presence of one or more comorbid psychiatric disorders in...

Newsletter Drug Free Pakistan Foundation (DFPF), June 2019

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

Monthly Newsletter from June 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019

During this month, trained and empowered students by Drug Free Pakistan Foundation from University of Education, Township and Bank Road Campus Lahore organized 3 Social Action Projects...