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OPIÁCEOS: Guías Clínicas SOCIDROGALCOHOL basadas en la evidencia científica
Este documento forma parte de las Guías Clínicas SOCIDROGALCOHOL, basadas en la evidencia científica. Es de utilidad para los profesionales que atienden a personas con problemas por consumo de heroína y otros opiáceos. La evidencia...
Drug Addiction: Is Brain Stimulation the Answer?
Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation has allowed researchers to reduce how "excited" the brains of chronic cocaine and alcohol users become in response to drug cues. Drug addiction is a chronic disease affecting 5.4 percent of the...
Factors Related to Simultaneous Cocaine and Alcohol Use for Clients in Treatment
Research shows that alcohol and cocaine are frequently used simultaneously.
Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Formulations
Abstract Abuse-deterrent opioid formulations have been suggested as one way to decrease the abuse, addiction, and overdose of orally prescribed opioids. Ten oral opioid formulations have received abuse-deterrent labeling by the U.S. Food...
Webinar: Programa de intervención breve para adolescentes que abusan de las drogas (PIBA)
La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) extiende una cordial invitación para que el jueves 31 de mayo, a las 12:00 pm (hora de Washington, DC) participen en el seminario virtual gratuito "Programa de intervención breve para adolescentes que abusan de las drogas (PIBA): retos en la implementación y la investigación". Se analizará el proceso de desarroll
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Psychosocial Treatment; Individuals, Not Programmes
Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this cell is about interventions in which interaction is the main ingredient, from mutual support groups through to professionally delivered psychological programmes....
Family Rejection as a Predictor of Suicide Attempts and Substance Misuse among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
A study published in the LGBT Health Journal explores family rejection as a predictor for substance misuse in transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Taking data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey the study involved...
5th ISSUP Workshop- Vienna
Please mark your calendar for the 5th ISSUP Workshop! The Workshop will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 1-5, 2019.
4th ISSUP Workshop, Nairobi 2018
The 4th ISSUP Workshop will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from December 10 – 14, 2018.
This year we are partnering with the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) in Kenya and the African Union to provide access to training, information and research to those involved in the substance use prevention and treatment field.
A Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial of Modafinil for the Treatment of Cocaine Dependence without Co-Morbid Alcohol Dependence
Like methadone for heroin dependence, modafinil is an oral medication with similar effects to cocaine but milder, slower in onset and longer-acting - properties which might help plug the gap in effective pharmacotherapies for dependence on...