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.

Motivational Interviewing. Change: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, and Commitment

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This blog includes videos, podcasts and other resources to learn more about motivational interviewing and other counselling approaches.

The Readiness Ruler as a Measure of Readiness to Change Poly-Drug Use in Drug Abusers

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Abstract Readiness to change is a crucial issue in the treatment of substance use disorders. Experiences with methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) has shown that continuous drug and alcohol use with all its consequences characterize most...

Transference vs. Countertransference: What’s the big deal?

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You may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of new terms, theories, and practices you are learning. With all of the clinical information, you are consuming it can be easy to gloss over the concepts of transference and countertransference...

Resilience in Paco Addiction Treatments

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1 June 2012

This paper presents the results of a study on the factors promoting the rehabilitation of adolescents treated for paco addiction, from the point of view of resilience, i.e. the understanding and ability to cope with life's difficulties...

IntNSA 2019 Annual Educational Conference

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This conference focuses on the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for any nurse who cares for persons with substance use, abuse, and addictions. Providing patient-centred care through prevention, screening, treatment and recovery...

The Forest and the Trees: Relational and Specific Factors in Addiction Treatment

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Abstract Aims Increased expectations for the use of evidence‐based methods in addiction treatment have fueled a debate regarding the relative importance of ‘specific’ versus ‘common’ factors in treatment outcome. This review explores the...

The Role of the Early Therapeutic Alliance in Predicting Drug Treatment Dropout

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Abstract Background To investigate the role of the therapeutic alliance in predicting length of retention in residential drug treatment. Methods The study recruited 187 clients starting residential rehabilitation treatment for drug misuse...

The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Substance Misuse: A Critical Review of the Literature

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ABSTRACT Background: In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings are brought together in a comprehensive review...

Recovery Month 2019

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Every September the Recovery Month Campaign aims to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover. Over the years, Recovery Month has promoted and supported new evidence...

Prevention of Drug-Related Deaths

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Opioids are a class of drugs that act on the nervous system to produce feelings of pleasure and pain relief. Opioids have a high potential for causing addiction in some people and can cause life-threatening health problems, including the...