Various treatment formats, either in a live-in facility or through regular visits to a clinic, are designed for ongoing support, to help maintain recovery, and to prevent relapse.
Treatment Settings
Using Adolescent Development to Inform Prevention Practice
Participants will review major social and biological factors of adolescent development and implications for ways to approach substance use prevention/intervention. Objectives Include: - Describe prevalence rates for adolescent substance use...
Intentions and Attempts to Quit Smoking Among Sexual Minoritized Adult Smokers After Exposure to the Tips From Former Smokers Campaign
Abstract Importance Significant disparities exist in smoking behaviors by sexual minority status in the US. Objective To examine potential differences in the associations between exposure to the Tips From Former Smokers (Tips) campaign and...
Call for Papers- Drug Addiction Research in China
Drug addiction has been a major public health problem bringing a heavy burden to patients, families and society in China historically and contemporarily. In the recent two decades, animal and clinical research on mechanisms, trajectories...
Ecolink Institute successfully completes six batches for UTC full course
The Ecolink Institute based in India and an approved training provider of the Colombo Plan has successfully completed six (6) international batches for UTC Curriculum 1-8 and initiated to ICAP Credentialing Examination. The students draw...
Ecolink conducts special session on Relapse prevention
Ecolink Institute has conducted a special workshop on "Relapse prevention" on May 5 for over 40 therapists who are attached to Addiction Recovery Coach Online, a therapy wing of the Institute. Dr.Thirumagal V conducted the workshop on...
Implementing Adolescent SBIRT
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to early intervention of substance use. This mixed-methods evaluation assessed the implementation of an adolescent SBIRT change package across 13...
Peer-facilitated treatment access for hepatitis C: The Live Hep C Free project
This article explores the lessons learned during the implementation of a peer-facilitated hepatitis C virus hepatitis C testing and treatment access project called the Live Hep C Free project in contributing to micro-elimination efforts...
Peer to Peer User Guide-Drug and Alcohol Peer to Peer Prevention Program
This guide is developed to facilitate the work of Peer Counsellors in training Peer Educators in substance abuse prevention. It is based on the experience from the peer to peer drug prevention programs conducted by UYDEL. This peer to peer...
Severe bacterial infections in people who inject drugs: The role of injection-related tissue damage
Abstract Background In the context of the current U.S. injection drug use epidemic, targeted public health harm reduction strategies have traditionally focused on overdose prevention and reducing transmission of blood-borne viral infections...