Addiction

Let’s Talk Overdose: The Hidden Pandemic and How to Stop It

Video and audio recordings

In June 2021, the University of British Colombia Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Research Group hosted an online conference entitled Let’s Talk Overdose: The Hidden Pandemic and How to Stop It. Here, you can find the conference...

Baseline executive functions and receiving cognitive rehabilitation can predict treatment response in people with opioid use disorder

Book

7 July 2021

Abstract Background Impaired cognitive functions, particularly executive function, predict poor treatment success in people with substance use disorders. The current study investigated the effect of receiving adjunct cognitive...

Youth Wellness & Risk Behavior Connections: Part II: Violence, Safety & Other Health Behaviors

2 September 2021

ST AUGUSTINE, Florida

United States

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Youth Wellness & Risk Behavior Connections: Part I: Substance Use & Mental Health

1 September 2021

Saint Augustine, Florida

United States

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Advances in Technology in the Addiction Profession, Part V: Connection? Can an App Really Do That?

27 August 2021

Online

Description: An increased number of clients present with depression and anxiety, which results from - or may be caused by - social isolation and loneliness. As clinicians, the goal is to decrease symptoms and help make connections between feelings and behavior. Can an app help clinicians better help their clients?

Advances in Technology in the Addiction Profession, Part IV: The Art and Science of Predicting Recurrence

13 August 2021

Online

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The Addiction Professional’s Mini Guide to SBIRT for Adolescents

18 August 2021

Online

Description: This webinar is designed specifically for

Treating the Heart of Addiction

11 August 2021

Online

Description: There has been recent emphasis on the role of beliefs, motivation, and medication in the

Factors influencing engagement and utilization of opium tincture-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder: A qualitative study in Tehran, Iran

Book

26 July 2021

Abstract Introduction In response to a high burden of opioid use disorder (OUD), Iran established a network of opioid agonist treatment (OAT) centers beginning in 2002. To increase treatment diversity, particularly for patients who use...

The impact of COVID-19 on drug use and harm reduction programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: a regional consultation of stakeholders and people who use drugs

Scientific article

13 July 2021

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was classified a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with early reports of the disease occurring in the Middle East and North African (MENA) area. On January 2021, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional...