Addiction

Webinar: How Do Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Affect Young People?

Video and audio recordings

This webinar will present an update on research into co-occurring mental and substance use disorders among young people in Australia. It will ask: how many young people experience co-occurring mental and substance use disorders? What is the...

Effectiveness Bank Additions: Therapy Relationships that Work 4: Managing Perceptions of the Treatment

Scientific article

23 April 2019

Clients’ perceptions of and reactions to treatment are the focus of this final of four bulletins recapping 16 reviews for the American Psychological Association. Emerging from psychotherapy research worldwide are practical and effective...

Differences in Service Utilization and Barriers among Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites with Drug Use Disorders

Scientific article

13 March 2009

Abstract Background Treatment for drug use disorders (DUD) can be effective, but only a small proportion of people with DUD seek or receive treatment. Research on racial and ethnic treatment differences and disparities remains unclear...

Combining Medically Assisted Treatment and Twelve-Step Programming: A Perspective and Review

Scientific article

7 April 2017

ABSTRACT Background: People with severe substance use disorders require long-term rehabilitative care after the initial treatment. There is, however, a deficit in the availability of such care. This may be due both to inadequate medical...

Recovery Connects 2019

12 May 2019

Glasgow

United Kingdom

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A Conceptual Model for Understanding Post-Release Opioid-Related Overdose Risk

Scientific article

26 March 2019

Abstract Post-release opioid-related overdose mortality is the leading cause of death among people released from jails or prisons (PRJP). Informed by the proximate determinants framework, this paper presents the Post-Release Opioid-Related...

Cues Give Clues in Relapse Prevention

Scientific article

8 April 2019

More than 85% of people who give up an addictive drug begin using it again within a year. Relapse can occur following exposure to cues that are found in the environment which trigger the memory of their drug-taking experience. These cues...

Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe Conference

12 September 2019

Oslo

Norway

On 12-14th September 2019, the 19th SRNT Europe conference will be held in Oslo, Norway.

The conference will be centred around the theme of ‘Tobacco use in clinical practice and populations’, and will cover the great breadth of tobacco and nicotine research in the following topics:

· Pre-clinical/basic science

· Clinical