Tom Santo Jr presented at the NDARC Webinar Series on Thursday, 16 February 2023.

How do childhood trauma and mental disorders affect health, treatment and social outcomes among people with opioid dependence?

Research has found that people who experience childhood trauma and mental disorders increase the risk of opioid dependence. However, little research has examined the impact of childhood trauma and mental disorders among people with opioid dependence. This webinar examines the health, treatment and social outcomes among people with opioid dependence.

Our speaker, Tom Santo Jr provides...

INTRODUCTION: The trajectory and nature of depression in patients with alcohol use disorder as they enter treatment needs to be understood better. This study assessed the nature and course of depressive features among male patients with alcohol use disorder.

METHODS: Adult male patients with alcohol use disorders seeking treatment at an addiction treatment facility were recruited. They were assessed for depressive features using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD), a clinicianrated instrument, and the Inventory of Depressive Symptoms – Self Report (IDS-SR), a self-rated instrument...

Overview

Mental health problems are very common in those with a substance use disorder, and these patients have more clinically and psychosocially severe problems than patients with substance use disorders without comorbid mental health problems. On this page, you can find links to data, scientific publications and resources available from the EMCDDA on the topic of mental health problems and substance use.

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 and comorbid disorders.

The paper advocates for an integrated approach to treatment from a biopsychosocial perspective and the ‘no wrong door’ principle, so that patients receive comprehensive therapeutic interventions regardless of their entry point in the health system.

This discussion paper was developed by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC...

BACKGROUND:

A close relationship between a parent and a child and parental acceptance can mediate the appropriate self-acceptance of an adolescent, which is an important variable related to personality and a pillar of emotional health. In the paper we present the conclusions of a research study about the quality of the attachment towards parents and self-acceptance of adolescents at Czech secondary schools.

AIMS:

The aim of the study was the exploration of the relation between the attachment style and self-acceptance.

SAMPLE:

The research sample consists of 3,239 adolescents aged 15–19 in...

Contingency management (CM) is a psychological treatment based on operant conditioning. It consists of providing incentives in exchange for achieving a target behaviour such as abstinence or other treatmentrelated variables (e.g. session attendance, adherence to medication). The objective of this article was to introduce the rationale of CM for substance use and, more specifically, for smoking cessation. A growing body of empirical literature supports CM as an effective treatment for quitting smoking both in the general population and among other hard-to-treat smokers (e.g. pregnant women or...