All Resources for 'Medical, Clinical & Healthcare Services'

People with tobacco use disorder exhibit more prefrontal activity during preparatory control but reduced anterior cingulate activity during reactive control

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
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Reduced inhibitory control and a hypersensitivity to reward are key deficits in drug dependents; however, they tend to be studied in isolation. Here, we seek to understand the neural processes underlying control over reward and...

Anomalies in global network connectivity associated with early recovery from alcohol dependence: A network transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography study

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Scientific article
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Recovery Support
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Theories and Science
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Although previous research in alcohol dependent populations identified alterations within local structures of the addiction ‘reward’ circuitry, there is limited research into global features of this network, especially in early...

Effect of Combination Treatment With Varenicline and Nicotine Patch on Smoking Cessation Among Smokers Who Drink Heavily A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

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Importance  The concurrent use of both tobacco and alcohol causes substantial disease and early mortality, and smokers who drink heavily tend to be less successful in smoking cessation than smokers who do not. Although varenicline...

UTC-2 Training for Addiction Treatment Professionals of South Punjab, Pakistan.

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

“Training of Addiction Professionals for Pakistan Addiction Treatment Practitioners”

February 22-25, 2022 (8 am to 6pm)

Multan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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    1. Training Name:    Training of Addiction Professionals for...

Law Enforcement in Prevention Programming

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Video and audio recordings
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Faith-Based Strategies 
Prevention
Community-Based
Faith-Based
Treatment
Faith-Based
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Faith-Based
Populations
Family
Policy Advocacy
Policy
Law Enforcement
Police 
Supply & Market Disruption
Regulatory Control of Substances
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Partner Organisation
An APSI Prevention Talk on how to appropriately engage law enforcement in the implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies, with specific reference to the prevention of substance use.

Study of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in patients undergoing treatment for addictions in Madrid

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Men
Women

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Background: Patients with addiction are a vulnerable group in which there is little data on the infection and severity of COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in users in...

Association of Genome-Wide Polygenic Scores for Multiple Psychiatric and Common Traits in Preadolescent Youths at Risk of Suicide

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Scientific article
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Populations
Family
Mental Health
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Importance  Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youths worldwide, but no available means exist to identify the risk of suicide in this population.

Objective  To assess whether genome-wide polygenic scores for...

Mental Health Surveillance Among Children — United States, 2013–2019

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Scientific article
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Mental Health
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Mental health encompasses a range of mental, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning and occurs along a continuum from good to poor. Previous research has documented that mental health among children and adolescents is...