All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Targeted epigenomic editing ameliorates adult anxiety and excessive drinking after adolescent alcohol exposure

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Mental Health
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Adolescent binge drinking is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders later in life including alcohol use disorder. Adolescent alcohol exposure induces epigenetic reprogramming at the enhancer region of the activity-regulated...

Basic Counseling Part 1

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Video and audio recordings
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

This video is intended as a learning tool for practicing basic counseling skills adapted from UTC on course 4: Basic Counseling Skills for Addiction Professionals. This video does not substitute similar training.

Basic Counseling Part 3

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Video and audio recordings
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

This video is intended as a learning tool for practicing basic counseling skills adapted from UTC on course 4: Basic Counseling Skills for Addiction Professionals. This video does not substitute similar training.

Does cannabidiol make cannabis safer? A randomised, double-blind, cross-over trial of cannabis with four different CBD:THC ratios

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
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As countries adopt more permissive cannabis policies, it is increasingly important to identify strategies that can reduce the harmful effects of cannabis use. This study aimed to determine if increasing the CBD content of cannabis...

Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women
Public Health

This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...

Experts’ views on how to design a tobacco control fund in the UK

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
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Objective To explore expert views on the potential value, and approaches to establishing and administering a tobacco control fund in the UK.

Design Semistructured interviews and follow-up discussion groups.

Subjects Twenty-four...

Prevention Topics Page

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Website
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Prevention
Partner Organisation

Drug prevention approaches range from those that target society as a whole (environmental and universal prevention) to interventions focusing on at-risk individuals (indicated prevention).

The main challenges are in matching these...

Reaching smoke-free: how can we improve smoking cessation treatment?

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Video and audio recordings
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

This webinar explored the provision of smoking cessation treatments, including e-cigarettes, in the context of primary care.

It provided an overview of investigations into how smoking cessation treatment provision in the UK could be...