The aim of this article is to highlight how organizational knowledge and the experience of providing residential rehabilitation for people with drug and alcohol dependencies can inform the design and delivery of community-based services. It ...
This article seeks to highlight the problems of gambling addiction and substance misuse among Jamaica’s adolescents and how RISE Life Management Services has been tackling these issues through our targeted prevention and intervention services over ...
This article, prepared with the assistance of program staff at the Avcilar Community Center in Istanbul, Turkey, chronicles the developmental process that we underwent while designing and implementing community-based addiction services on behalf of C4 ...
Within residential treatment programs for substance use disorders (SUDs), there are many men who are fathers. Programs often do not focus on fatherhood or parenting as part of residential treatment programs, though there have been ...
Originating from the noble desire to ease the physical pain of our fellow human beings, the use of opioids has evolved into a catastrophic epidemic: billions of dollars in lost productivity; unprecedented health care costs; ...
The current opioid crisis in the US is a social and public health nightmare. Both the inherent and new challenges are vexing, formidable, and overwhelming our social, health care, and legal systems. Questions surrounding legitimate ...
Globally, opioids accounted for 55 percent of drug-related deaths in 2010 (Wakeman & Rich, 2018) and in the United States 116 people die from opioid overdoses every day (Seth, Scholl, Rudd, & Bacon, 2018). In ...
Financial incentives for quality improvement and timely performance feedback to treatment agencies are two potentially effective strategies for improving treatment quality. Until now, treatment for individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) has been the focus ...
We have more and easier access to addictive chemicals than ever before. Moreover, we now know the addiction potential of the refined sugar and flour in the food many of us consume on a regular ...
There are no consensus criteria for the diagnosis of the clinical syndromes referred to as hyperacusis and misophonia (Potgieter et al., 2019; Taylor, 2017; Tyler et al., 2014), although a working set of criteria for ...
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