All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

Plausibility of patient-centred care in high-intensity methadone treatment: Reflections of providers and patients

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Background: Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) often have complex health care needs. Methadone is one of the medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) used in the management of OUDs. Highly restrictive methadone treatment...

Is telemedicine the answer to rural expansion of medication treatment for opioid use disorder? Early experiences in the feasibility study phase of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Trial

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Telehealth
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Telemedicine (TM) enabled by digital health technologies to provide medical services has been considered a key solution to increasing health care access in rural communities. With the immediate need for remote care due to the...

Reimagining brief interventions for alcohol: Towards a paradigm fit for the twenty first century?

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Background: There is no longer support for the idea that brief intervention programmes alone can contribute meaningfully to the improvement of population health relating to alcohol. As a result, calls for major innovations and...

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment Study

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment (SWAAT) is a National Drugs Strategy Strand 2 Strategic Health Initiative which aims to build community capacity to support women to access treatment and recovery from drug and alcohol use...

Tobacco Smoking and Associated Factors Among People Living With HIV in Uganda

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Mental Health

Rates of smoking among people living with HIV are greater than the number of people who smoke within the general population.

This article, published in the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco, examines the smoking patterns and behaviours of...

Chronic care treatment for smoking cessation in patients with serious mental illness: a pilot randomized trial

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance

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Rates of smoking among those with serious mental illness (SMI) are two to three times higher than for the general population. Smoking is rarely addressed in mental health settings. Innovative outreach and treatment strategies...

Current Status of Violence, Suicide, Alcohol Use, and Stigma in Mexico

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Mental Health

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Studies on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and its risk factors have shown worldwide the preponderant role of accidents and violence in the burden of disease and the role of alcohol consumption as a main risk factor in the...

Prison and drugs in Europe: Current and future challenges

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Book
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Addiction
Public Health
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Summary

This publication provides an overview of current knowledge and the latest developments in the field of drug use and prison in Europe. The report explores in depth the epidemiology of drug use and drug-related problems among the...