All Resources for 'Public Health'

Interventions in Substance Use Disorders (SUD): A View from Psychology and Neuroscience

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ISSUP Webinar
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Prevention
Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Family
ISSUP presents its webinar on Interventions in Substance Use Disorders (SUD) with experts from Uruguay: A view from Psychology and Neuroscience.

Rehabilitation of Executive Functions in Users of Addictive Substances. Study Protocol

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Public Health
Quality Assurance
Partner Organisation

BACKGROUND:

Substance use increases the risk of damage to executive and cognitive functions. Manifested by a range of clinical symptoms, such impairments may affect people’s coping with everyday activities and their abilities to establish...

AddictologyIssue 3/2023

Selected Lifestyle Factors of Candidate Sperm Donors and Their Effect on Spermiogram Values in the Moravian Part of the Czech Republic. Study Protocol

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Scientific article
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Populations
Men
Public Health
Quality Assurance
Partner Organisation

INTRODUCTION:

Male infertility affects nearly 14% of men in Europe, and approximately 44% of them are unaware of the cause of their infertility. Thanks to the plentitude of research, we can now clearly define the risk factors that...

AddictologyIssue 3/2023

The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations

In a new editorial in World Psychiatry, Prof. Helen L. Fisher discusses how public health must recognise the influence of social circumstances and experiences and calls for lived experience to be at the centre of this revolution.

Fisher...

Handbook on Youth Participation in Drug Prevention Work

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Booklet
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Prevention
Populations
Family
Partner Organisation

The goal of the present handbook is to offer encouragement, examples, rationales and concrete advice on how to increase youth participation in substance use prevention, harnessing the insights of young people on the most important target...

“I’m almost opioid-a-phobic”: family medicine residents’ perceptions of enhancing opioid analgesic and agonist treatment training in a Canadian setting

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Family
Quality Assurance
Public Health

Purpose

As deaths from the illicit drug poisoning crisis continue to rise in Canada, increasing the number of healthcare professionals qualified to effectively prescribe opioids could be beneficial. The willingness of family medicine...

WAVE Bursaries to attend Lisbon Addictions 2024

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News
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Quality Assurance
The WAVE bursary application process is open from 24/10/2023 to 31/1/2024.

Residential addiction treatment for adolescents is scarce and expensive

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Public Health
Partner Organisation
NIH-supported analysis finds just seven states had a facility that accepted Medicaid, had a bed open the same day, and offered buprenorphine

UGANDA NATIONAL ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICY

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Booklet
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Men
Women
Public Health
Infectious Diseases
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

The Government of Uganda (GOU) is making every possible effort to improve the health and socio-economic conditions of the people of Uganda in line with the policy of poverty eradication.

The government recognizes the role that alcohol...

Stigmatizing imagery for substance use disorders: a qualitative exploration

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Populations
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Mental Health
Ethics
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
This study used qualitative methods to identify stigmatizing and non-stigmatizing imagery for SUD and explore the reactions of people with lived experience with SUD to SUD-related imagery. We conducted focus groups and brief semi-structured qualitative interviews with 14 individuals in recovery from a range of SUD.