Treatment Settings

Various treatment formats, either in a live-in facility or through regular visits to a clinic, are designed for ongoing support, to help maintain recovery, and to prevent relapse.

New Training of Staff in Medication Assisted Treatment

News

Uganda Has now officially started training in harm reduction and has created Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) Clinics in one of its National referral Mental Hospital Alcohol and Drug Unit. The training is ongoing for new and existing...

Impact of Pandemic on Addiction Treatment Centers in Latin America

Scientific article

17 August 2020

Preliminary report of the study "Overall impact of the pandemic in the Addiction Treatment Centers of Latin America", which aims to explain the overall impact of pandemic and isolation measures in treatment centers, identify changes in...

Perception of quality of life and health status in outpatient treatment for problematic use of psychoactive substances

Scientific article

1 September 2018

This study indemnifies the perception of quality of life and health status in outpatient treatment for problematic consumption of psychoactive substances, in an organization of the Civil Society of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Two...

calidad de vida y percepción de salud en usuario de tratamientos ambulatorio

Webinar: Drug Use in Adolescents in the Pandemic Era: An Understanding of the Family Relationship

ISSUP Webinar

10 September 2020

ISSUP Chile invites you to participate in a webinar on ''drug use among adolescents in pandemic times: an understanding of the relational family' to be held on 10 September 2020, from 12:00 to 13:00 (Chile time) September 10, 2020, 12:00 p...

Webinar: Teen Drug Use in Pandemic Times: An Understanding from the Family Relational

ISSUP Webinar

10 September 2020

ISSUP Chile invites you to participate in a webinar on 'Drug Use in Adolescents in Times of the Pandemic: An Understanding from the Family Relational' to be held Thursday, September 10, 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 hrs (Chile Time) September 10...

Adolescent Brain Development Reading List

Reading List

Our latest collection of research, resources and publications on adolescent brain development.

Evidence Based Treatment and Prevention Courses in Academic Institutions in Pakistan Video Poster

Video and audio recordings

Speaker: Salman Shahzad, PhD Institute of Clinical Psychology, University of Karachi

Report of the Pan-African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (PAENDU) for the period 2016-2017

Book

This is the first report of the Pan-African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (PAENDU) and is based on available data for 2016 and 2017. The report provides information on the methods used for data collection and presents data on drug demand...

How Do You Identify Effective Clinicians? Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix cell C3

Book

12 August 2020

HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE CLINICIANS? They differ greatly in how well their patients do, so how do we identify effective clinicians? In cell C3 the Alcohol Treatment Matrix tackled the critical missing link in improving treatment...

Heroin/ Kudu

Video and audio recordings

Heroin or KUDU (in Sri Lanka) is the main illegal substance (drug) abuse by individual more than 100000 in the country. Without sufficient treatment facilities and efficient treatment workforce, the problem can lead to to many social...