All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Project Khanya: A Randomized, Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Peer-Delivered Behavioral Intervention for ART Adherence and Substance Use in Cape Town, South Africa

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

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Background

Substance use is prevalent in South Africa and associated with poor HIV treatment outcomes, yet, it is largely unaddressed in HIV care. Implementing an evidence-based, task-shared intervention for antiretroviral...

Alcohol-free Childhood: Investigation by the Children’s Parliament

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News
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Prevention
Public Health

Alcohol has a constant presence in everyday lives. 

It is important that all practitioners, professionals, and policymakers are aware of this presence and the impact it has on different members of society.

One way to gather this...

Trajectories of psychological distress during recovery from polysubstance use disorder

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Addiction
Theories and Science

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Introduction: Polysubstance use is a prevalent substance use pattern with adverse effects on psychological distress and diminished treatment outcomes. Although polysubstance use often dominates clinical practice, the trajectories...

Outreach to People Who Survive Opioid Overdose

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

Often it takes a critical moment, such as when someone survives an overdose, to motivate behavioural change.

It is particularly important that at these times people have access to the appropriate treatment.

The objective of this study was...

Celebration of 30 Years of Drug Prevention & Treatment Activities of Dhaka Ahsania Mission

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that the society will lose proactive capable manpower if we cannot eradicate drug related problems from our country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strictly directed to make the dope tests mandatory for...

Methodologies Mini-Course: Mobile Health Tobacco Interventions Among Low-Income Smokers

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Prevention

In this SRNT-U Methodologies Mini-Course, you'll hear about Dr. Monica Webb Hooper's work with the use of mHealth for smoking cessation among low income African Americans. You'll learn about:

  • some key health disparities issues that serve...

Women and Smoking Seminar

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Populations
Men
Women

While men are currently more likely to smoke than women, this sex/gender gap is narrowing globally. This is especially concerning given that compared to men, women are at higher risk for smoking-related adverse health effects and also have...