This assessment tool can be used by any health and social services and programs that serve young people, including substance use services, mental health services, youth treatment services, harm reduction services, youth shelters, community...
Interdisciplinary collaborations (i.e., where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are stated to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary approaches (i.e., where various...
There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary...
Importance Substance use disorders are associated with high rates of emergency department (ED) use and challenges engaging with primary care services.
Objective To examine 5-year health care engagement and utilization outcomes...
Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MATTC) partnered with the Ethnic Communities Opioid Response Network in Missouri, the Addiction Policy Forum, and the Opioid Response Network (ORN in IA, KS, MO, and NE) to translate 5...
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Children living with parents who use substances are a group of children who are overlooked in legislation, policy and practice.
This guide draws on research that puts children’s voices front and centre.
Findings from safeguarding practice...
ISSUP Brasil presented a webinar with pediatricians discussing ways of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work.
Two pediatricians discuss the means of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work.
Moderators:
P...
ISSUP Peru invites you to participate in a webinar on community addiction prevention and control services.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 11:00 (Peru time)
This webinar analyzes the activity that promotes and...
The EMCDDA and the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) are delighted to open registration today for two upcoming joint events in 2023: the European Drugs Winter School (EDWS) and the European Drugs Summer School (EDSS) (1)(2).
EDWS...
NADCP is partnering with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) to offer a new training for medical providers working with participants in drug treatment courts. This training will help medical providers learn how to successfully...
Mental health and substance use issues are commonly linked, and it is important that practitioners are skilled and knowledgeable in identifying and working with the potential challenges an individual may be facing. For World Mental Health...
Historically, substance use and mental health systems and services have operated independently. Yet many people who access substance use services also have mental health disorders. Improving client care means ensuring people can easily...
This discussion paper aims to highlight the evidence related to mental and physical health comorbidities in drug use disorders and to promote the development of innovative, evidence-based policies and practices to treat drug use disorders...
Purpose: The main objective of this study was to determine the associated factors of care continuity among people who are addicted to psychoactive substances at the "La Vie" Center and Jamot hospital in Yaounde.
Problem: The management of...
Psychologists are playing pivotal roles in reentry programs, but more research and investment are needed to help incarcerated individuals build successful lives after leaving prison.
This article, published in the American Psychological...
Ensuring continued learning and offering opportunities to substance use dependence treatment professionals to learn advanced and evidence-based treatment techniques and strategies is one of the important missions of UNODC. In...