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.

Making the Opioid Use Disorder Cascade of Care a Reality, Despite Data Limitations

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23 October 2018

This blog post by ICUDDR Executive Director, Kim Johnson, discusses a method for measuring national outcomes of efforts to reduce the number of overdose deaths in the United States. Click here to read the blog post.

World Health Organization SAFER Alcohol Control Initiative

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28 September 2018

The WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health claims that alcohol consumption contributes to more than 3 million deaths globally every year and is the seventh leading risk factor for premature death and disability. The World Health...

Gene Therapy for Cocaine Addiction

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17 September 2018

Cocaine addiction is linked with uncontrollable drug seeking. Cues within the environment act as a constant reminder of the experience and can lead to relapse. Current medication options are limited when it comes to meeting the needs for...

Strategy to Combat Opioid Abuse

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its five point strategy to combat opioid abuse, misuse, and overdose. The five points that the strategy is based on are to: Improve access to prevention, treatment and recovery...

Educational Packages for Opioid Use Disorders

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The Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network has released a set of educational packages that can be used by professionals working with individuals with opioid disorders. Online booklets, which have been specially designed for peer...

El consumo de drogas y su tratamiento dese la perspectiva de familiares y amigos de consumidores - Guatemala

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17 December 2009

Actualmente Guatemala cuenta con una población de 13,344,770 personas que tiene una elevada tasa de población migrante, tanto nacional como internacional. Relacionado con el abuso de drogas, el país presenta la más alta tasa de consumo de...

Planning and Designing the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) for Hospitalized Adults with Substance Use Disorder

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1 May 2017

Abstract People with substance use disorders (SUD) have high rates of hospitalization and readmission, long lengths of stay, and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Yet, models for improving care are extremely limited. We performed a needs...

Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Problems among Refugees in Primary Health Care

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24 November 2014

Abstract Background Population-based epidemiological research has established that refugees in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are at increased risk for a range of mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) problems. Improved...

Mombasa to set up prison drug rehabilitation clinic

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Mombasa's prison department will soon be introducing methadone programs for heroin injecting drug users.

According to Nascop, there are about 18,300 drug users who inject heroin in Kenya.

2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium - Presentations

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A number of presentations from the 2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium, which was held on Monday, 8 October 2018, have been made available. The theme of the event was C linical, community and policy responses to emerging problems in drug...