Integrated Care for Syndemics: Bringing SUD, HIV & HCV Treatment Together
ISSUP Global, cordially invites you to an upcoming webinar on Integrated Care for Syndemics: Bringing SUD, HIV & HCV Treatment Together.
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Substance Use Disorders and COVID-19: Multi-Faceted Problems Which Require Multi-Pronged Solutions
Persistent use of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, opioids and stimulants increase risk of substance use disorders (SUDs). SUDs are increasingly viewed as biopsychosocial disorders with multiple risk factors interacting at individual and...
How Can Telehealth Help in the Provision of Integrated Care?
The World Health Organisation defines telehealth as: The use of telecommunications and virtual technology to deliver health care outside of traditional health-care facilities. Well-designed telehealth schemes can improve health care access...
Interventions to Integrate Care for People with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review Protocol
Abstract Introduction: People with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorders (SUDs) have an elevated risk of premature mortality compared with the general population. This has been attributed to higher rates of chronic...
Mental Health Training for Primary Health Care Workers and Implication for Success of Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care
Abstract Background Mental disorders remain a neglected public health problem in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), most people with mental disorders never receive effective care and there is a large treatment gap. In order to solve...
ATTC White Paper: Preparing Students to Work in Integrated Health Care Systems
A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...
