Mezi lidmi, kteří se zotavují z poruch užívání návykových látek, ti, kteří kouří, mají větší pravděpodobnost relapsu o tři roky později ve srovnání s těmi, kteří to nedělají, podle nových zjištění publikovaných v časopise Journal of...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has published an extended overview detailing the impact of certain drugs on brain functioning, as well as the most common experimental methods used in related research.
Neuroscientists...
New research from Cardiff University has found:
Intervence sociálních médií pro odvykání kouření – Tweet2Quit – posílá automatizovanou každodenní komunikaci soukromým svépomocným skupinám a podporuje vysoce kvalitní peer-to-peer diskuse online. Je to velmi nízké náklady a má potenciální...
One of our selection of hot topics, analyses of important issues which sometimes generate heated debate. Programmes distributing the opiate overdose antidote naloxone have become the great new hope for curbing the rise in drug-related...
This manual is designed to teach cultural competence concepts, values, and strategies for engagement and treatment with Hispanics and Latinos with substance use disorders (SUD). The manual introduces a basic understanding of cultural...
Contingency management (CM) is a widely used behavioural therapy for substance use disorders. It offers material rewards for attending sessions and adhering to prescribed medication courses, amongst other positive behaviours.
A study...
Nedávno publikovaná v časopise Pediatrics, první prospektivní studie syntetických kanabinoidů (SC) - chemických látek, které napodobují účinky marihuany - spojuje depresivní příznaky a konzumaci marihuany a alkoholu se zvýšeným rizikem...
Podle nové studie publikované v časopise s otevřeným přístupem PLOS ONE mají američtí vysokoškolští studenti, kteří konzumují střední až vysokou hladinu alkoholu a marihuany, trvale nižší bodový průměr (GPA).
Šetření porovnávalo...
A new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry claims that one’s desire for cocaine may be reduced by blocking signalling from a specific system in the brain primarily responsible for promoting wakefulness and appetite.
The...
Recently published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, a new study claims the existence of a link between childhood abuse and opioid use later in life.
According to the investigation, emotional abuse, specifically, more so than sexual or...
Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers:
Findings recently revealed in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and the Journal of Neuroscience suggest the cerebellum is co-responsible for the alterations in the brain that are linked with excessive substance abuse.
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A recent survey which looked at the drug habits of over 20,000 US high-school athletes has found those who play high-contact sports, such as hockey, are more likely to use heroin and prescription opioids for non-medicinal purposes.
The...
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...
Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...
In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...