treatment

US National Treatment Plan for Substance Use Disorder 2020

Book

3 February 2020

"In 2018, nearly 89% of the estimated 20.2 million Americans with a substance use disorder (SUD) did not receive specialized treatment for their condition—a disparity known as the “treatment gap”. Today, the White House Office of National...

UK Drug Treatment - Lessons from History for the Future

News

On 7th November 2019, Public Health England released their adult substance misuse treatment statistics report. During the reporting year, a total of 268,251 adults were in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services, between April 2018...

Free Webinar: Academic Programmes in Drug Treatment and Prevention at Paraguayan Universities

31 January 2020

Webinar

Title

Academic Programmes in Drug

Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix: Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Interventions

Book

22 January 2020

EFFECTIVENESS OF SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTIONS First instalment of a fortnightly course on the evidence for alcohol treatment and related topics. This instalment selects, explains and explores seminal and key research on the...

IOTOD 2020 Conference

18 May 2020

Amsterdam

The IOTOD conference offers a range of exciting and interactive sessions, involving thought-provoking talks and expert-led panel discussions.

The 46th Annual Winter Symposium

25 January 2020

Colorado Springs

United States

The Advanced International Winter Symposium on

Goal Commitment Predicts Cannabis Use for Adolescents in Treatment

Scientific article

27 February 2019

Background: Commitment to change is an innovative potential mediator and mechanism of behaviour change (MOBC) that has not been examined in adolescents with cannabis use. The Adolescent Substance Abuse Goal Commitment (ASAGC) questionnaire...

How Many Tries Does it Take to Resolve a Substance Use Problem? Lessons from a National Study of Recovering Adults in the U.S.

Scientific article

17 December 2019

This retrospective cohort study asks people who are in recovery or have not used alcohol or drugs for at least two years following meeting diagnostic criteria for having a SUD how many quit attempts they had made prior to success. The range...

UNODC and WHO Organize International Training on Substance Use Treatment and Care during Pregnancy

News

Kyiv (Ukraine), 18 December 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) jointly with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the framework of the UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care, organized an...

More than 30 health practitioners, including obstetricians, gynecologists, neonatal care specialists, nurses, as well as specialists in substance use disorders treatment from Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus participated in the three-day workshop.

UNODC Training on the Nature, Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders for Intersectoral Group of Panama Policymakers

News

Thirty-four (34) high-level decision makers from CONAPRED, the Ministries of Health, Education and Social Development, NGOs and other entities are participating in a three-day workshop on creating humane, effective and evidence-based drug...