All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

Drug and Alcohol Findings Focus on Women

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Women

Drug and Alcohol Findings bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions.

The Drug and Alcohol Finding Focus on Women aims to explore...

Women and Substance Use: Reading List

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Women
Here, you can find a selection of papers and resources related to women and substance use.

A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug‐related impairment in practice and policy

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Addiction
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Men
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Mental Health
Drug‐related impairment is persistently stigmatized delaying and preventing treatment engagement. To reduce stigma, various medical terms (e.g. ‘chronically relapsing brain disease’, ‘disorder’) have been promoted in diagnostic systems and among national health agencies, yet some argue that over‐medicalization of drug‐related impairment lowers prognostic optimism and reduces personal agency.

Assessment of Annual Cost of Substance Use Disorder in US Hospitals

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Addiction
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Importance  A persistently high US drug overdose death toll and increasing health care use associated with substance use disorder (SUD) create urgency for comprehensive estimates of attributable direct costs, which can assist in...

Office-Based Addiction Treatment Retention and Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness

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Men
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Importance  People experiencing homelessness have been disproportionately affected by the opioid overdose crisis. To mitigate morbidity and mortality, several office-based addiction treatment (OBAT) programs designed for this...

ISSUP Kenya - Kenya National Youth Service UTC Cycle II Training

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ISSUP Kenya conducted a UTC Substance Use Disorders, Cycle II training for the Kenya National Youth Service(NYS), at the NYS centre Yatta 8-12 February 2021.

The Director-General NYS, Madam Matilda Sakwa, EBS officially opened the training...