BACKGROUND: The role of physicians is crucial in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and addiction. The quality of addiction-specific medical education varies, as do postgraduate and continuing medical education programmes in different countries. In order to ensure a high level of quality education, it is necessary to name and define competency-based quality standards that enable physicians to provide the highest quality care to patients.

METHODS: The objective of the study will be the identification of quality standards in competency-based postgraduate and continual...

BACKGROUND: The dropout rate from the treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUD) negatively affects overall treatment outcomes. Little is known about the specific role of various psychiatric and psychosocial factors in the individual patients. Limited data is available in regards to mindset and addiction treatment, giving the opportunity of testing such interventions in the future.

AIM: To identify the key psychological, psychosocial, and other treatment related factors in the patients from the inpatient substance use treatment with addiction who have dropped out of the program...

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the governments of several countries around the world have focused on consumption taxes, which they use from two important points of view – the first point of view is the state budget, where through the increase of the point of consumption tax, revenues to the budget are increased. The second, no less important point of view is health and the environment. These political goals and the structure of consumption taxes as a means of influencing the consumption behavior of the population are, in many ways, the same in OECD countries. However, the difference is in the...

BACKGROUND: Heated tobacco products along with electronic cigarettes represent the current trend in nicotine use. These novel products are appealing to teenagers and young adults especially. Generation Z representatives are characterized as native digital and internet users who are exposed to online marketing intensively including tobacco and nicotine products marketing. AIM: The purpose of this study was to explore how Generation Z perceives the promotional techniques of HTP products (IQOS and glo) in the Czech Republic.

METHODS: We conducted qualitative research using semi-structured...

INTRODUCTION: Smoking and tobacco products are long-term tolerated and socially accepted in many societies. In some socioeconomic groups and regions, this is considered standard practice. One of the ways to limit not only direct but also secondary smoking is an increase in the tax burden and an effective antismoking campaign. Adults exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher chance of acquiring coronary heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer as they age. Secondhand smoking has significant negative effects on the cardiovascular system and has been related to coronary heart disease and stroke in...

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) among women who use drugs (WWUD) is reportedly two to five times higher than among those who don’t use. This study aimed to analyse GBV experienced by WWUD in 6 EU countries.

METHODS: A survey was carried out with 261 WWUD, and additionally, 492 professional staff working with WWUD were surveyed. Fifteen focus groups with WWUD and staff and 120 interviews with staff and key informants were also conducted.

RESULTS: WWUD reported a high lifetime prevalence of GBV (97.69%) of all types and in many contexts. Migrant, ethnic minorities...

Background
Data concerning driving under the influence of alcohol (DUIA) are frequently characterised by their lack of availability, accuracy, or reliability. This inherent limitation poses challenges in the examination of the influence of alcohol policies on road traffic outcomes. The study pursued a dual objective:

1) delineating the methodologies employed in evaluating road traffic outcomes attributable to alcohol policies in instances where DUIA data are absent, and

2) scrutinising the impact of alcohol policies under conditions of missing DUIA data.

Methods
A scoping review was...

Background: Physical health problems are common in people receiving opioid agonist treatment (OAT). A study was conducted on these health issues in OAT patients in the Czech Republic and Norway from 2010 to 2019, with a focus on gender differences.

Methods: In this study, it was a population-based cohort study that linked multiple health records to investigate physical diseases (using ICD-10 codes) in patients receiving OAT in the Czech Republic (4,280 patients) and Norway (11,389 patients) from 2010 to 2019. A gender-stratified analysis was performed.

Results: The study found that both male...

In this bulletin, data on treated problem alcohol use for the year 2022 are presented, followed by trends for the seven-year period from 2016 to 2022.

The data are from the National Drug Treatment Reporting System (NDTRS), the national surveillance system that records and reports on cases of drug and alcohol treatment in Ireland.

Included in the NDTRS are cases treated in all types of services: outpatient, inpatient, low threshold, general practitioners (GPs), and those treated in prison.

مقدمة: في إسبانيا، يتسم عرض برامج الوقاية بالتنوع الشديد والتنظيم، ولكن التحدي اليوم لا يزال يتمثل في كيفية وضع الأدلة موضع التنفيذ. تعرف المفوضية الأوروبية أفضل الممارسات بأنها "سياسة أو تدخل ذي صلة يتم تنفيذه في بيئة واقعية تم تقييمها بشكل إيجابي من حيث الكفاية (الأخلاق والأدلة) والإنصاف وكذلك الفعالية والكفاءة المتعلقة بالعملية والنتائج". كان الهدف من الدراسة هو وصف المشروع الإسباني لبوابة أفضل الممارسات في خفض الطلب على المخدرات والإدمان السلوكي (بوابة BBPA).

الأساليب: كان تصميم الدراسة عبارة عن مقال سردي وصفي على بوابة BBPPA الإسبانية.

النتائج: النتائج الرئيسية هي: 1) تصميم بوابة BBPPA...

مقدمة: تطورت علوم الوقاية ومعايير الجودة للوقاية من المخدرات في الاتحاد الأوروبي وفي العالم في العقود الأخيرة. وقد أحرز تقدم في تطوير النوعية في كرواتيا، ولكن تجربة عملية تحسين مجال الوقاية من المخدرات وتنفيذ معايير الجودة في كرواتيا لم يرد وصفها بالتفصيل في المؤلفات. دراسة الحالة هذه هي مثال على تكييف QS الأوروبي وظهور مكونات أخرى لضمان الجودة في مجال الوقاية من الإدمان في جمهورية كرواتيا. تصف الدراسة المثال الكرواتي لتنفيذ QS من منظور خدمة مكافحة تعاطي المخدرات (المشار إليها فيما يلي باسم SCDA) التابعة للمعهد الكرواتي للصحة العامة (المشار إليها فيما يلي ب CIPH) ، والسياق والعمليات والآليات...

الخلفية: لا يزال تنفيذ قياس الجودة يمثل تحديا في مجال العلاج من تعاطي المخدرات والحد من الضرر. في دراسة الحالة هذه، نبحث في الاستراتيجيات التي يمكن استخدامها لتعزيز تنفيذ سياسة يتم فيها نشر مؤشرات الجودة على الملأ.

الأساليب: بناء على منهجية قائمة على الأدلة ، توضح دراسة الحالة هذه كيف تقوم منظمة في فلاندرز - المعهد الفلمنكي لجودة الرعاية - بتطوير مؤشرات الجودة جنبا إلى جنب مع استراتيجياتها لتنفيذ قياس المؤشرات.

النتائج: تظهر الدراسة ثلاثة أنواع من مؤشرات الجودة في مجال العلاج الدوائي والحد من الضرر ، والتي تقيس الوقاية من الانتحار ، وعلاج التهاب الكبد الوبائي سي ، وتجربة المرضى / العملاء...