All Resources for 'Justice Systems'

The Winding Road to Relapse: Forging a New Understanding of Cue-Induced Reinstatement Models and their Associated Neural Mechanisms

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

In drug addiction, cues previously associated with drug use can produce craving and frequently trigger the resumption of drug taking in individuals vulnerable to relapse. Environmental stimuli associated with drugs or natural reinforcers...

The Internet and Drug Markets

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Book
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Law Enforcement
Supply & Market Disruption
Partner Organisation

Summary

The last decade has seen the emergence of new internet technologies that have acted as important facilitators of online drug markets. The internet now hosts a range of virtual marketplaces (both on the surface and deep web) for...

Dual Disorders in Individuals under Treatment for both Alcohol and Cocaine

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Introduction: Descriptive data about co-occurrence of alcohol and cocaine consumption is scarce, despite its important prevalence. Dual disorders show high prevalence in clinical samples, and patients report worse evolution and...

A Study of Alcohol Use Pattern among Married Men in Rural Tamil Nadu, India - Policy Implications

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Men
Women
Statistics
Theories and Science
Policy

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Alcohol consumption pattern in India varies remarkably from many other countries. In India, most men are abstainers (70% to 90%) while less than 2% of women use alcohol. However, the men who use alcohol tend to drink at hazardous...

Estimating Treatment Coverage for People with Substance Use Disorders: An Analysis of Data from the World Mental Health Surveys

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Substance use is a major cause of disability globally. This has been recognized in the recent United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in which treatment coverage for substance use disorders is identified as one of the...

Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services

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News
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Mental Health
Partner Organisation

For anyone interested in digital health behaviour interventions this manual from SAMHSA will prove interesting. Exploring how technology-assisted care can be implemented, the value of technology based assessments and the ways in which the...

The demand for cigarettes and a tax increase in El Salvador

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Scientific article
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Policy

Aim: Analyze the elasticities of demand in the short and long term for cigarettes in El Salvador as a tool to support the recommendations on tax increases to reduce the prevalence and consumption by increasing prices.

Methods: Analyzed the...

Demand for Cigarettes and Tax Increases in El Salvador

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Scientific article
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Policy

Objective: Analyze short- and long-term elasticities of demand for cigarettes in El Salvador as a tool for supporting recommendations on tax increases to reduce prevalence and consumption through price increases.

Methods: Demand for...

The Reciprocal Lagged Effects of Substance Use and Recidivism in a Prisoner Reentry Context

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Abstract

Background

Much work has investigated the association between substance use, crime, and recidivism, yet little scholarship has examined these associations longitudinally among samples of recently released prisoners. We examine...