Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Treatment
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: What Is Drug Addiction Treatment for?
The first matrix cell on treatment (as opposed to harm reduction) seems a good time to ask: What is treatment there to do? ‘Cure’ addiction, or promote meaningful and productive lives? Meet patients’ wishes, or aid the government’s welfare...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix Row 1. First Task: Save Lives, Reduce Harm
Consolidates the lessons of the first five instalments of the online course on drug treatment research. The five cells in row 1 explored key research on reducing harm to the user as a result of their drug use. Prompted by HIV, from the...
Exercise in the Treatment of Youth Substance Use Disorders: Review and Recommendations
SUMMARY Substance use disorders are one of the most common and debilitating mental health conditions experienced by youth, and several well-established risk factors exist that contribute to the development and persistence of SUDs...
WHO Alcohol Brief Intervention Training Manual for Primary Care (2017)
Alcohol contributes significantly to the disease and mortality burden in the WHO European Region, and primary health care systems play an important role in reducing the impact of harmful alcohol use. Screening and brief interventions (SBIs)...
Do Creative Arts Therapies Reduce Substance Misuse? A Systematic Review
Abstract The complexities of substance misuse treatment indicate a need to consider the efficacy of creative arts therapies for those who find it difficult to verbalise their emotions and feelings. The focus of this systematic review is to...
Factors Influencing the Long-Term Sustainment of Quality Improvements Made in Addiction Treatment Facilities
Abstract Background A greater understanding of the factors that influence long-term sustainment of quality improvement (QI) initiatives is needed to promote organizational ability to sustain QI practices over time, help improve future...
Effects of Naltrexone on Alcohol Self-Administration and Craving
Abstract Randomized clinical trials have established the efficacy of naltrexone for reducing quantity of alcohol consumption and incidence of relapse to heavy drinking. To evaluate putative treatment mechanisms, human laboratory studies...
Effectiveness Bank Drug Treatment Matrix: Creating a Lifesaving Treatment and Harm Reduction System
Online course moves on to the whole-system level, where treatment and harm reduction services working in synergy are the best hope for reversing the hepatitis C epidemic - but can any feasible local or national system succeed in this...
Engagement within a Mobile Phone-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Adolescents
ABSTRACT Background: Although mobile phone-delivered smoking cessation programs are a promising way to promote smoking cessation among adolescents, little is known about how adolescents might actually use them. Objective: The aim of this...