Adiktologie Journal Issue 3-4
The Adiktologie Journal is the professional journal for research concerning the prevention and treatment of addiction.
Below, you can find articles that make up the December 2020 edition.
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Cultural Differences in Tweeting about Drinking across the US
Abstract
Excessive alcohol use in the US contributes to over 88,000 deaths per year and costs over $250 billion annually. While previous studies have shown that excessive alcohol use can be detected from general patterns of social media...
Combinations of Drinking Occasion Characteristics Associated with Units of Alcohol Consumed among British Adults: An Event‐Level Decision Tree Modeling Study
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Background
Alcohol consumption is influenced by the characteristics of drinking occasions, for example, location, timing, or the composition of the drinking group. However, the relative importance of occasion characteristics is...
Women and Substance Use: Reading List
Here, you can find a selection of papers and resources related to women and substance use.
Women and Drugs: NIDA resource page
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has set up a topic page that includes DrugFact sheets, research reports and infographics on Substance use among women.
Here you can find videos, policy briefings and an extensive resource list...
Women and Alcohol: Key Issues
The Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) co-hosted a four-part seminar series on issues relating to women and alcohol.
The series addressed:
Women, Alcohol and Globalisation
Women...
Drug and Alcohol Findings Focus on Women
Drug and Alcohol Findings bridges the divide between research on the effectiveness of responses to drug and alcohol problems and the practitioners who provide those interventions.
The Drug and Alcohol Finding Focus on Women aims to explore...
Women and gender issues related to drugs
EMCDDA has developed a variety of resources on women and drug use including publications, data, news, events and reports.
You can also access the best practice portal, which provides an overview of the European picture and options to...
‘Dangerous Data’ Part 6: Evidence Accumulates and Expert Opinion Converges about Controlled Drinking as a Treatment Goal. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic
‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 6: EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES AND EXPERT OPINION CONVERGES
The heat dies down as it becomes clearer that both controlled drinking and abstinence have their place among the gaols for alcohol treatment patients, and evidence...
A US national randomized study to guide how best to reduce stigma when describing drug‐related impairment in practice and policy
Drug‐related impairment is persistently stigmatized delaying and preventing treatment engagement. To reduce stigma, various medical terms (e.g. ‘chronically relapsing brain disease’, ‘disorder’) have been promoted in diagnostic systems and among national health agencies, yet some argue that over‐medicalization of drug‐related impairment lowers prognostic optimism and reduces personal agency.
Association of Cannabis Retailer Proximity and Density With Cannabis Use Among Pregnant Women in Northern California After Legalization of Cannabis for Recreational Use
This cross-sectional study found that, after the state-level legalization of cannabis for recreational use in California, greater retail availability was associated with higher odds of cannabis use among pregnant women; these results were...
Office-Based Addiction Treatment Retention and Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness
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Importance People experiencing homelessness have been disproportionately affected by the opioid overdose crisis. To mitigate morbidity and mortality, several office-based addiction treatment (OBAT) programs designed for this...
Assessment of Annual Cost of Substance Use Disorder in US Hospitals
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Importance A persistently high US drug overdose death toll and increasing health care use associated with substance use disorder (SUD) create urgency for comprehensive estimates of attributable direct costs, which can assist in...
National Release of 'Listen First' in Slovenia
‘Listen First’ and ‘The Science of Care’ materials have been translated into Slovenian and are being released nationally in Slovenia by the Institute for Research and Development (UTRIP) through its ‘Prevention Platform’ programme, which is...
ISSUP Kenya - Kenya National Youth Service UTC Cycle II Training
ISSUP Kenya conducted a UTC Substance Use Disorders, Cycle II training for the Kenya National Youth Service(NYS), at the NYS centre Yatta 8-12 February 2021.
The Director-General NYS, Madam Matilda Sakwa, EBS officially opened the training...
ISSUP Kenya Executive Committee Meeting
On Saturday 27th February 2021 the Executive Committee meeting of ISSUP Kenya took place. There were good discussions and more information will be forthcoming from the committee about the way forward for our organisation. In the meantime...
Line Up Live Up-the UNODC life skills evidence-informed training programme-TOT Training Uganda 23-26 Feb 2021
Line Up Live Up is a UNODC life skills evidence-informed training programme – that target individual risk factors can use sport to achieve positive skills formation and promote social development of a young person
The Line Up Live Up trai...
‘Dangerous Data’ Part 5: Inquiries Reject Fraud Allegations. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic
‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 5: INQUIRIES REJECT FRAUD ALLEGATIONS
Establishing fraud seemed the only way to fatally undermine the Sobells’ findings vindicating controlled drinking as a treatment goal, but inquiry after inquiry cleared the couple...
Webinar | Addictive Behaviors: Prevention and Treatment during COVID-19 Pandemic
ISSUP Lebanon are pleased to present their Webinar on the topic of Prevention and Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
With Crisis Comes Opportunity: Unanticipated Benefits Resulting from Pivots to Take-Home Naloxone (THN) Programs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in stay-at-home orders, which presented a significant challenge to the design and operation of an essential harm-reduction strategy in the opioid epidemic: community-based, take-home naloxone (THN)...