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Addiction
Drug Addiction: Is Brain Stimulation the Answer?
Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation has allowed researchers to reduce how "excited" the brains of chronic cocaine and alcohol users become in response to drug cues. Drug addiction is a chronic disease affecting 5.4 percent of the...
Factors Related to Simultaneous Cocaine and Alcohol Use for Clients in Treatment
Research shows that alcohol and cocaine are frequently used simultaneously.
The Opioid Crisis Is Not Just An American Epidemic
This article details the opioid addiction crisis in Jos, Nigeria.
Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Formulations
Abstract Abuse-deterrent opioid formulations have been suggested as one way to decrease the abuse, addiction, and overdose of orally prescribed opioids. Ten oral opioid formulations have received abuse-deterrent labeling by the U.S. Food...
Webinar: Programa de intervención breve para adolescentes que abusan de las drogas (PIBA)
La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) extiende una cordial invitación para que el jueves 31 de mayo, a las 12:00 pm (hora de Washington, DC) participen en el seminario virtual gratuito "Programa de intervención breve para adolescentes que abusan de las drogas (PIBA): retos en la implementación y la investigación". Se analizará el proceso de desarroll
Genetic Etiology for Alcohol-Induced Cardiac Toxicity
Abstract Background: Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is defined by a dilated and impaired left ventricle due to chronic excess alcohol consumption. It is largely unknown which factors determine cardiac toxicity on exposure to alcohol...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Psychosocial Treatment; Individuals, Not Programmes
Every treatment involves direct or indirect human interaction, but this cell is about interventions in which interaction is the main ingredient, from mutual support groups through to professionally delivered psychological programmes....
Family Rejection as a Predictor of Suicide Attempts and Substance Misuse among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
A study published in the LGBT Health Journal explores family rejection as a predictor for substance misuse in transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Taking data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey the study involved...
5th ISSUP Workshop- Vienna
Please mark your calendar for the 5th ISSUP Workshop! The Workshop will take place in Vienna, Austria from July 1-5, 2019.
