All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

Policies, delivery models, and lessons learned from integrating mental health and substance abuse services into primary health care in Ethiopia.

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Book
Themes
Faith-Based Strategies 
Prevention
Community-Based
Faith-Based
Treatment
Faith-Based
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Faith-Based
Addiction
Public Health
Mental Health

In Ethiopia, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent 18.3% of premature mortality, consume 23% of the household expenditures, and cost 1.8% of the gross domestic product. Risk factors such as alcohol, khat, and cannabis use are on the...

Drug overdose: a film about life

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Format
Video and audio recordings
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
This is a film about hope and life, it is about people who are making a difference.

Evaluation of neurotrophic factors and education level as predictors of cognitive decline in alcohol use disorder

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Abstract

Cognitive reserve (CR) is the capability of an individual to cope with a brain pathology through compensatory mechanisms developed through cognitive stimulation by mental and physical activity. Recently, it has been suggested that...

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Policy

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics -  This paper (synoptic version, peer reviewed and published in Journal of Global Drug Policy & Practice) is a review of and research into the social...

President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week

Format
News
Themes
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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Format
Book
Themes
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...

Quality and the Workforce

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Format
ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
ISSUP Quality in Treatment Network and ISSUP UK are pleased to present this Webinar on Quality and the Workforce. This Webinar looks into the role of the workforce in ensuring quality drug use disorder treatment services.

Alcohol and self-harm: A qualitative study

Format
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.