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.

Report of the Pan-African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (PAENDU) for the period 2016-2017

Book

This is the first report of the Pan-African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (PAENDU) and is based on available data for 2016 and 2017. The report provides information on the methods used for data collection and presents data on drug demand...

How Do You Identify Effective Clinicians? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell C3

Book

12 August 2020

HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE CLINICIANS? They differ greatly in how well their patients do, so how do we identify effective clinicians? In cell C3 the Alcohol Treatment Matrix tackled the critical missing link in improving treatment...

Heroin/ Kudu

Video and audio recordings

Heroin or KUDU (in Sri Lanka) is the main illegal substance (drug) abuse by individual more than 100000 in the country. Without sufficient treatment facilities and efficient treatment workforce, the problem can lead to to many social...

Cochrane Tobacco Addiction: Key Review Summaries

Scientific article

Below are two-page summaries of research carried out by the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction group. Combined pharmacotherapy and behavioural interventions for smoking cessation Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation Reduction versus abrupt...

Digital Health: A Strategy to Maintain Health Care for People Living with Noncommunicable Diseases during COVID-19

Book

5 August 2020

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the main cause of death and disability worldwide. Effective management of these chronic conditions depends largely on continuous, responsive, accessible, and quality services and successful patient...

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change - Applications of Motivational Interviewing

Book

This bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI—engaging, focusing, evoking...

Early Career Researcher training-Matilda Centre

News

The Matilda Centre offers a training program for Early Career Researcher's focused on the prevention, early intervention, treatment, and epidemiology of mental health and substance use disorders. The aim is to provide postdoctoral...

Drink in moderation. A non-preventive message

News

Drink in moderation. A healthy, well-meaning and responsible advice, transmitted by the alcoholic beverage industry in all its advertisements, aimed at preventing the problems of excessive alcohol consumption. Right? I'm not so sure. The...

ICUDDR 2020 Conference Resources

Website

The ICUDDR 2020 Virtual Conference took place on the 13th-15th of July. You can find recordings of the panel presentations and links to the posters that were displayed during the conference poster session. Poster Sessions 1) Evidence Based...

Making the Most of Medical Care. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell C3

Book

5 August 2020

MAKING THE MOST OF MEDICAL CARE Selected, explained and discussed – key research on management of medical interventions and treatment in medical settings. Highlights the remarkable transformation of a US clinic in the 1950s by an open...