policy

Cannabis Policy and Legislation in the Nordic Countries

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Cannabis is used throughout the Nordic countries, with a particular increase in use among young adults. Markets and attitudes towards the drug have evolved, therefore there is a need to understand follow societies response to its use. This...

Summer Institute on Addiction

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Amsterdam
Netherlands

As our hyper-globalized world brings people, substances, ideas, and potential sources of

A Protocol for a Tobacco Free Detox Unit

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Sydney

Though it has become mandatory for public health facilities to become smoke-free it has been difficult to implement this policy in particular in detox, drug and alcohol units and mental health units.

Particularly complex in-patients in detox units have smoking patients objecting to a smoke free environment, commonly flout regulations, become argumentative and often self-discharge.