All Resources for 'Education & Training'

President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week

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News
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Public Health

President Biden issued the first ever Presidential Proclamation recognizing August 29, 2021 – September 4, 2021 as Overdose Awareness Week – a time to honor the lives lost to the overdose epidemic and recommit to both preventing overdoses...

Correlates of motivation for treatment among alcohol service users in Uganda

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

Introduction: Given the scarce literature on alcohol use disorders (AUD) and their treatment in developing countries, this paper aims to explore motivation levels and their correlates among alcohol service users in two residential treatment...

Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems

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News
Themes
Prevention
Populations
Family

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...

Attitudes towards consumption, sensation seeking and alcohol consumption. Model of partial mediation in Ecuadorian adolescents

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Scientific article
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Populations
Men

Objective: To determine the mediated effect of sensation-seeking on the relationship between attitudes to alcohol consumption and consumption in a sample of adolescents from Ecuador. Method: Descriptive predictive and mediation study with...

Alcohol and self-harm: A qualitative study

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Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Mental Health

Executive Summary

This qualitative study was commissioned by Alcohol Change UK in Wales to explore how and why alcohol and self-harm are related, and how alcohol, self-harm, and related services, are experienced and understood. Eleven...

Deconstructing Addiction

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Website
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

This resource has been initiated by Anthony Corballis in conjunction with Dulwich Centre Publications. You’ll find here a range of writings about addiction and ways of responding to alcohol and other drug use.

Periods of altered risk for non-fatal drug overdose

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Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

The risk of an individual overdosing is influenced by a range of, often overlapping circumstances. Factors such as incarceration, mental and physical health conditions, and the treatments prescribed for these conditions can all affect the...

Overdose recognition and management: Reading list

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Reading List
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health

According to the World Health Organisation, around half a million deaths each year are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids, with more than 30% of those deaths caused by overdose. Signs, symptoms...

Identifying content-based engagement patterns in a smoking cessation website and associations with user characteristics and cessation outcomes: a sequence and cluster analysis

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Quality Assurance
Theories and Science

Tobacco smoking is the greatest cause of sickness and early death worldwide, with 8 million people dying each year from a smoking-related condition. The use of pharmaceutical or behavioural assistance improves smokers' chances of quitting...

Reprint of: Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Biotechnological treatment, including addiction treatment, is the way of the future. Researchers and pharmaceutical companies praise depot injections, agonist/antagonist implants, deep brain stimulation, and hapten conjugate vaccines as...