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COVID-19 and Substance Use Disorder: Study Protocol for the International Society of Addiction Medicine Practice and Policy Interest Group Global Survey

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2020
Introduction: As one of the major health problems in the present century, the COVID-19 pandemic affected all parts of the global communities and the health of substance users are potentially at a greater risk of harm.
Alexander Baldacchino, Seyed Ramin Radfar, Cornelis De Jong, Parnian Rafei, Masud Yunesian, Gilberto Gerra, Kathleen Brady, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Mehrnoosh Vahidi, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili, Anja Busse, Elizabeth Saenz, Giovanna Campello, Kamran Niaz, Hamed Ekhtiari, Ali Farhoudian   +16 more
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Emergence of opiate substitution treatment in general practice

, 2010
In the nineteen nineties, the drug addiction treatment world took a change of direction. Until then "drug addiction" was confined to specialised approach, which treated it as the symptom of a disturbance inherent in the individual, psychological in origin.
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REDUCTION OF DAMAGE AS A STRATEGY FOR THE USE AND ABUSE OF SUBSTANCES IN MEXICO: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Ra Ximhai, 2017
Harm reduction is suggested as a paradigm shift in addressing problematic drug use, the goal of the model is to lessen the consequences of dependence.
Arodi Tizoc-Marquez, Karina Rivera-Fierro, Ulises Rieke-Campoy, Manuel Cruz-Palomares   +3 more
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Improving hospital-based opioid substitution therapy (iHOST): protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

NIHR Open Research
Background Opioid substitution therapy (also known as ‘opioid agonist therapy’ or ‘medication treatment of opioid use disorder’) is associated with improved health and social outcomes for people who use heroin and other illicit opioids.
Marisha Wickremsinhe, Dan Lewer, Adam Burns, Michael Brown, Rosalind Gittins, Niamh Eastwood, Vivian Hope, Adam Holland, Penny Lewthwaite, Aubrey Ko, Adrian Noctor, Ann-Marie Morris, Jenny Scott, Andrew Preston, Sedona Sweeney, Erica Smith, Magdalena Harris, Nerissa Tilouche   +17 more
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Efficacy of treatment in an opioid -dependent population group using the Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) tool. [PDF]

, 2009
A pilot study was performed to assess the effectiveness of treatment in an opioid dependent population using the Maudsley Addiction Profile (MAP) tool1.The primary outcome of the study was to assess if treatment had an effect on 1.
Collins, Ruth, Boggs, Bob, Taggart, Noel, Kelly, Martin, Drillington, Aileen, Swanton, Ivy, Patterson, Diane   +6 more
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Commentary on Nolan et al. (2014): Opiate substitution treatment and hepatitis C virus prevention: building an evidence base? [PDF]

Addiction, 2014
Vickerman P, Page K, Maher L, Hickman M.
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The Hero’s Substitution: Cross Sectional Study about Substitution Therapy for Heroin

Revista Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental, 2022
Catarina Cordeiro, Rodrigo Saraiva, Inês Simões, Fátima Ismail, Filipa Novais   +4 more
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Can production and trafficking of illicit drugs be reduced or merely shifted ? [PDF]

The production of cocaine and heroin, the two most important drugs economically, has been concentrated in a small number of poor nations for 25 years. A slightly larger number of developing nations have been affected by large-scale trafficking in these ...
Reuter, Peter
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Structural barriers in the context of opiate substitution treatment in Germany--a survey among physicians in primary care. [PDF]

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy, 2013
Schulte B, Schmidt CS, Kuhnigk O, Schäfer I, Fischer B, Wedemeyer H, Reimer J.   +6 more
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Pilot study of a social network intervention for heroin users in opiate substitution treatment: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

Trials, 2013
Day E, Copello A, Seddon JL, Christie M, Bamber D, Powell C, George S, Ball A, Frew E, Freemantle N.   +9 more
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