abstinence

Webinar: Technology-based Contingency Management to Promote Smoking Cessation

13 March 2019

Webinar

Contingency management (CM) is one of the most efficacious interventions to promote drug abstinence. Under CM interventions, desirable consequences such as goods or services are provided contingent on objective evidence of abstinence.

Stopping Cannabis Use Is Associated with Improved Memory

Scientific article

30 October 2018

The controversial subject of cannabis legalisation has led to the increased urgency in understanding the full health and social implications of the drug use. Cannabis use is particularly prevalent amongst adolescence - a period of time...

Internet-Delivered Drug and Alcohol Treatment

Scientific article

27 September 2018

Study examining the link between cognitive functioning and treatment outcomes of an internet-delivered intervention

Tackling Youth Substance Use with 12-Step Programmes

Scientific article

1 August 2017

A new study recently published in the academic journal Addiction suggests that substance use treatment programmes that incorporate 12-step practices, such as that used by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), are more effective for combatting...

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Scientific article

1 January 1966

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the...

Can Abstaining from Alcohol Help to Fight the Spread of HIV?

News

Studies have shown that alcohol may play a role in more that 13% of deaths resulting from infectious diseases, including HIV. Evidence suggests that alcohol consumption negatively affects the fight against HIV primarily by: Increasing the...

Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?

Scientific article

28 February 2017

12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...