Treatment

The range of medical, psychological, and social services designed to help individuals reduce or stop substance use and manage substance use disorders. Treatment may include assessment, counselling and behavioural therapies, medication-assisted treatment, withdrawal management, and support for co-occurring mental or physical health conditions. Effective treatment is typically person-centred and evidence-informed, and may be provided in outpatient, community, or residential settings. Treatment aims to improve health and functioning, reduce substance-related harms, and support individuals in moving toward recovery and long-term wellbeing. 

E-Cigarettes Less Addictive Than Traditional Cigarettes, Study Finds

Scientific article
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E-cigarettes are less addictive than traditional cigarettes, according to a new study published in the journal Preventative Medicine. That said, around 75% of e-cigarette smokers still consider themselves to be dependent on their use...

Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management

Book
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Often called the Orange Book, this is guidance for clinicians treating people with drug problems. This 2017 version offers new guidelines on: prison-based treatment new psychoactive substances and club drugs mental health co-morbidity...

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

Book
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This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...

XVIII Meeting of the CICAD Demand Reduction Expert Group

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Santiago
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Chile

The meeting will address, among other issues, recommendations for the implementation of specific policies for drug use prevention and treatment, with emphasis on trauma treatment, and selective and indicated prevention in adolescent at risk and social vulrnerability and treatment outcome indicators.

Hepatitis C ‘Giant’ Still Growing

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Half of all surveyed UK injectors infected, a quarter within three years of starting to inject - for a time it seemed impossible to reverse the epidemic of hepatitis C infection. Now we know that aided by new treatments which clear the...