All Resources for 'Medical, Clinical & Healthcare Services'

Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the Risks to Children – One Year on

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation

This ‘One Year On’ report expands upon the findings and recommendations of Adfam’s Medications in Drug Treatment: Tackling the risks to children, published in 2014, and further contributes to the debate on reducing the risks to children...

Enzymes Involved in Cocaine Metabolism: A New Pharmacologic Approach to Treat Overdose Due to Cocaine

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Introduction: New therapeutic strategies against cocaine overdose toxicity have been developed. These new approaches are based on the design and synthesis of proteins involved in the destruction of cocaine before...

Reviewing England's Drug Misuse Treatment System

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

Public Health England’s recently published review reveals that the country’s drug misuse treatment system is performing well. However, there are still several areas that call for improvements.

Amongst the report’s findings, notable are:

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Systemic and Individual Factors in the Buprenorphine Treatment-Seeking Process: A Qualitative Study

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Theories and Science
Policy

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Background: Opioid use is a significant problem in Alaska. Medication-assisted treatment for opioid use, including buprenorphine, reduces withdrawal symptoms and the harm associated with opioid abuse. Understanding consumers’...

New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free.

Service providers can...

ESPAD Report 2015

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Book
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Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Mental Health
Partner Organisation

The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.

The latest...

Treating Alcohol Addiction with Positive Relationships

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

A ‘therapeutic alliance’, or in other words, a positive and trusting relationship between counsellor and patient, could be the key to successful treatment of alcohol addiction, according to a new study. Patients who reported a more positive...

Healthier Alternatives and Natural Highs: The Success of the Icelandic Model

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News
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Public Health
Policy
Over the past two decades, Iceland has seen teenage smoking, drinking and drug use dramatically decrease. This is partly because of state-funded initiatives which look to promote healthier alternatives, or ‘natural highs’, such as sport, family-orientated activities and cultural provisions.