Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Seventeenth Session)
ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The topic of this webinar is 'Mental health and substance abuse'.
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Approach to the health situation of adolescents and young people linked to the Criminal Responsibility System
Technical document of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, is built from an approach to the international evidence on health of adolescents and young people linked to judicial systems; recognizes the national evidence of the...
A Tragic Death Shows How ERs Fail Patients Who Struggle With Addiction
An interesting story about maximizing opportunities when people with substance use disorders interact with the healthcare system, and what happens when those opportunities are missed.
Canadian Guidelines on Alcohol Use Disorder Among Older Adults
Open Access article: Abstract Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is an increasingly common, under-recognized, and under-treated health concern in older adults. Its prevalence is expected to reach unprecedented levels as the Canadian...
The Lived Experiences of Recovering Filipino Persons who Use Drugs (PWUDS) without Family Support
The Philippines’s war on drugs brought about an influx or people of who use drugs (PWUDs) availing of community-based drug rehabilitation services for treatment. Programs have been created to develop skills to avoid relapse and improve...
UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics Volume LXII, 2019- Drugs in the Nigerian Population
The present issue of the Bulletin (vol. LXII, 2019), whose guest editor is Isidore Obot, professor of Psychology, University of Uyo, and Director of the Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, Uyo, Nigeria, is focused on the...
COVID-19 and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: International and Local Perspectives
COVID-19, along with the associated restrictions, has and continues to impact on the access to and provision of health care services. This talk hones in on the impact of services for substance use disorders, presenting new insights arising from current research. Hosted by the South Africa HIV Addiciton Technology Transfer Centre (UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health), and SANCA National.
Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics
Coronavirus is one of the most significant public health challenges we have faced in the past 100 years. Everyone is effected. However, the strain is particularly great for those working on the front line to detect and treat people who have...
Revista Internacional de Investigación en Adicciones
La Revista Internacional de Investigación en Adicciones (RIIAD), editada por Centros de Integración Juvenil A.C., tiene el propósito de desarrollar una plataforma para la publicación semestral bilingüe (español e inglés) de hallazgos...