NIDA Scientists Review Impact of Smoking among Adolescents with ADHD
Two studies funded by NIDA have highlighted a correlation between ADHD symptoms and initial smoking age.
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Research Suggests Changes to the Way Opioids Are Prescribed after Surgery Could Prevent Misuse
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston has published a new study suggesting changes to the way opioids are prescribed after surgery could be a way to reduce misuse.
Featured in the British Medical Journal, the study Po...
New from SAMHSA: Medications for Opioid Use Disorders
SAMHSA has released a new publication as part of the Treatment Improvement Protocol series.
National Trends in Alcohol Consumption in Mexico
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Introduction: Worldwide, binge drinking of alcohol has increased, especially among young people. In Mexico, various epidemiological sources allow us to account for the growth this pattern of consumption has had. Given this...
The Influence of Hazardous Drinking on Psychological Functioning, Stress and Sleep during and after Treatment in Patients with Mental Health Problems
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Objectives: Hazardous drinking could negatively affect health and lead to alcohol use disorders, but it is unclear how hazardous drinking affects treatment outcomes of depression and anxiety and stress-related mental health...
Guía para el tratamiento e integración social en materia de adicciones
El objetivo de esta guía es facilitar la comprensión del problema de consumo de sustancias en adolescentes, así como presentar las prácticas basadas en la evidencia clínica más efectivas para la orientación e intervención con esta población...
Nabiximols Combined with Motivational Enhancement/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Cannabis Dependence
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Background
The current lack of pharmacological treatments for cannabis use disorder (CUD) warrants novel approaches and further investigation of promising pharmacotherapy. We previously showed that nabiximols (27 mg/ml Δ9...
Measuring Treatment Outcomes in Gambling Disorders
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Background and Aims
Considerable variation of outcome variables used to measure recovery in the gambling treatment literature has precluded effective cross-study evaluations and hindered the development of best-practice treatment...
Contemporary Routes of Cannabis Consumption: A Primer for Clinicians
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Although cannabis use is federally prohibited, medical cannabis is legal in some form in 30 states and the District of Columbia, and recreational use is legal in 8 states and the District of Columbia. The increasing legal...
Reported Theory Use by Digital Interventions for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption, and Association with Effectiveness
ABSTRACT
Background: Applying theory to the design and evaluation of interventions is likely to increase effectiveness and improve the evidence base from which future interventions are developed, though few interventions report this.
Obje...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Can Medications Make It *Too* Easy to Recover?
Drug-based treatments dominate opiate addiction treatment but are far from universally accepted. Referring to chemical ‘solutions’ to addiction, the ‘bite’ commentary on this cell ends with the “curious possibility that precisely because a...
Guía de intervención mhGAP para los trastornos mentales, neurológicos y por consumo de sustancias en el nivel de atención de salud no especializada. Versión 2.0
Los trastornos mentales, neurológicos y por consumo de sustancias (MNS) son muy frecuentes y representan una gran carga de enfermedad y discapacidad a nivel mundial. Subsiste una amplia brecha entre la capacidad de los sistemas de salud y...
mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0 for Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Disorders in Non-Specialized Health Settings
Overview
This is the second version (2016) of the mhGAP Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG) for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialist health settings. It is for use by doctors, nurses, other health workers as...
Mujeres y Tratamiento de Drogas
Guía de asesoría clínica para programas de tratamiento y rehabilitación en drogas en población específica de mujeres adultas.
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Certification of Addiction Professionals in Africa: An Overview of the Process in Kenya
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This paper focuses on Kenya’s course of action to address the drug problem, specifically, treatment and rehabilitation of persons with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). Treatment and rehabilitation of persons with SUDs was formally...
Supervised Dosing with a Long-Acting Opioid Medication in the Management of Opioid Dependence
Trials challenge the need for the widely accepted policy of making opioid-dependent patients take their methadone or other opioid substitutes at the clinic or pharmacy, but ‘no difference’ findings may be due to the limitations of the...
Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a new report Recommendations for NIDA's Cannabis Policy Research Agenda.
The document has been prepared by the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Workgroup which was formed in...
The Winding Road to Relapse: Forging a New Understanding of Cue-Induced Reinstatement Models and their Associated Neural Mechanisms
In drug addiction, cues previously associated with drug use can produce craving and frequently trigger the resumption of drug taking in individuals vulnerable to relapse. Environmental stimuli associated with drugs or natural reinforcers...
Alcohol and Drugs Prevention, Treatment and Recovery: Why Invest?
Estimates show that in the UK the social and economic costs of alcohol related harm amount to £21.5bn, while harm from illicit drug use costs £10.7bn. These include costs associated with deaths, the NHS, crime and, in the case of alcohol...
Una guía de bolsillo: Indagación del abuso del alcohol y una intervención breve
Esta guía de bolsillo fue resumida de la guía de 34 páginas del NIAAA, Ayudando a Pacientes que Beben en Exceso: Una Guía Clínica. Los materiales incluyen:
- Folletos educativos para pacientes
- Notas de progreso ya formateadas
- Diapositiva...
