Treatment Settings

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.

Using Nutrition to Promote Addiction Recovery

Book

30 March 2021

In this article Khary Rigg, Ph.D and Kelly Miller, NTMC introduce us to the importance of nutrition in addiction recovery and highlight some practical, evidence-based actions to consider when advocating for nutritional interventions in recovery care.

Nutrition in Addiction Recovery: Reading List

Reading List

12 April 2021

It is not uncommon for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) to experience conditions which make healthy eating and proper nutrition more challenging.

ISSUP Nutrition Khary Rigg Kelly Miller Addiction Recovery Nutrients Health

Why harmful drinkers reject change coping & cognition in maintaining heavy drinking

Video and audio recordings

Abstract Public Health England identifies approximately 600,000 dependent drinkers as the target treatment population. However, they identify an additional 1.3 million ‘harmful’ drinkers who do not have serious dependency but are drinking...

‘Dangerous Data’ Part 8: Controlled Drinking: What Do the Authorities Say? An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic

Book

22 March 2021

‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 8: CONTROLLED DRINKING: WHAT DO THE AUTHORITIES SAY? Official guidance on controlled drinking as a treatment goal from Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, how the National Treatment Agency for...

Teleintervenção fundamentada na entrevista motivacional para familías que convivem com um parente com problemas por consumo de álcool e outras Drogas

Video and audio recordings

Cassandra Borges Bortolon, a Clinical Psychologist, Postgraduate Professor in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Director of Acurarte, President of AMTEPA, Founder of the Acurartech Company, and an Independent Research Consultant, presented...

Internet‐Based Therapy versus Face‐To‐Face Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Non‐Inferiority Trial

Scientific article

24 September 2020

Abstract Background and aims Most people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) are never treated. Internet‐based interventions are effective in reducing alcohol consumption and could help to overcome some of the barriers to people not seeking or...

7 Tips to Engage in Mental Health Treatment the Guatemalan Maya Families Living in the United States

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

1 August 2020

Source: https://mhttcnetwork.org/sites/default/files/2020-09/7tips_maya_Families_V2.pdf Publication Date: August 1, 2020 Developed By: National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC Guatemalans were the sixth-largest Hispanic group living in the United...

A Delphi yarn: applying Indigenous knowledges to enhance the cultural utility of SMART Recovery Australia

Scientific article

28 January 2021

Background: Mutual support groups are a popular treatment for substance use and other addictive behaviours. However, little is known about the cultural utility of these programmes for Indigenous peoples. Methods: A three-round Delphi study...

Psychopathological co-morbidity in a drug-dependent population in alentejo

Scientific article

8 February 2011

Co-morbidity or dual diagnosis is established by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the 'co-occurrence in the same individual of a dysfunction of psychoactive substance use and other psychiatric disorder' (WHO, 1995). There is a growing...

European Internet search on the use of | materials edEOS

News

The purpose of these practices is to collect scientific data on substance abuse exclusively in people over the age of 18 who have tried/used substances in the last 12 months. Its Greek arm is implemented and coordinated by the ECB/EPIPSY...