Binge drinking is a pattern of intermittent excessive alcohol consumption that is highly prevalent in young people. Neurocognitive dual-process models have described substance abuse and adolescence risk behaviours as the result...
Patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often develop early onset substance use disorder (SUD) and show poor treatment outcomes. Both disorders show similar reward-processing alterations, but it is unclear...
Previous studies have established a role of sex hormones in alcohol use disorder (AUD).Only few clinical investigations with low numbers of patients with AUD have focused on the sulphated form of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA-S)...
Some evidence suggests that males and females may differ in their responses to acute cannabis effects, including subjective drug effects and behavioural effects, and cannabinoid pharmacokinetics. This is significant given...
Heavy cannabis use (HCU) is frequently associated with a plethora of cognitive, psychopathological and sensorimotor phenomena. Although HCU is frequent, specific patterns of abnormal brain structure and function underlying HCU...
Animal models of alcohol (ethanol) self-administration are crucial to dissect the neurobiological mechanisms underlying alcohol dependence, yet only a few of these induce pharmacologically relevant levels of alcohol consumption...
“Training of Addiction Professionals for Pakistan Addiction Treatment Practitioners”
February 22-25, 2022 (8 am to 6pm)
Multan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Don't forget to register for the 65th CND!
NGOs with ECOSC status can attend the 65th CND online or in person. Everyone else will be able to follow the public webcasts of the plenary.
Make sure to register on time and fill out the VNGOC...
Around the globe there are children at risk because they live in homes where a parent or other adult misuses drugs or alcohol. Identifying at risk youth requires cultural knowledge, understanding, awareness, and empathy. This event will...
Abstract:
Pains experienced as a result of negative recovery capital are often thought to stimulate motivations for positive behavioural change, usually through a ‘rock bottom’ type moment. Whilst recovery capital and barriers to...
Summary
Background: Patients with addiction are a vulnerable group in which there is little data on the infection and severity of COVID-19. The objective of this study was to analyze the seroprevalence against SARS-CoV-2 in users in...
RESUMEN
Introducción: Las guías actuales para el manejo del dolor en pacientes con adicciones no contemplan el tratamiento del dolor agudo. Objetivo: Describir los esquemas de tratamiento analgésico y la dosis promedio de opioide...
Introduction. Migration has an effect on the individual, social and family spheres, these effects will require adaptation processes that affect lifestyles, will be reflected in the processes of health, disease and risk behaviors...
The devastating consequences of stigma on youth:
In February, Starling's Community released a first-of-its-kind report highlighting the deeply rooted ways stigma harms children exposed to the stress of a parent's unaddressed trauma and...
To investigate how alcohol container labels can be used to build public awareness, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction commissioned Enhanced Alcohol Container Labels: A Systematic Review and developed a summary of the report...
Alcohol use by people under the legal drinking age of 21 has decreased over the past few decades, but the decreases were more pronounced for males than for females. In 2020, more girls and young women reported past-month alcohol use than...
Authors: Ms. Patricia Martínez-Redondo and Dª. Elisabete Arostegui Santamaria
Edit and distribute: Ministry of Health. Secretary of State for Health. Government Delegation for the National Plan on Drugs
Year of edition: 2021
The...
It has been a long-standing debate in the research and medical societies whether alcohol consumption is linked to the risk of prostate cancer (PCa). Many comprehensive studies from different geographical areas and nationalities...
Mental health encompasses a range of mental, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning and occurs along a continuum from good to poor. Previous research has documented that mental health among children and adolescents is...