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User-led interventions: an expanding resource?

This short paper outlines the growth of user-led interventions across Europe in the problem (as opposed to recreational) drug sector over recent years. It starts by attempting to define and categorise user-led...
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Responding to the needs of ageing drug users

Older people with drug problems (OPDP) are considered those aged 40 or over whose recurrent drug use is causing them harm or is placing them at a high risk of such harm...
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Treatment expectations and satisfaction of treatment-refractory opioid-dependent patients in RIOTT, the Randomised Injectable Opiate Treatment Trial, the UK's first supervised injectable maintenance clinics

Examines the extent to which opinions of patients need to be taken into consideration in shaping future treatment provision, and indicates a need for future research to examine the relationship between treatment...
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Interview: Opioid maintenance treatment — call for a joint European quality care approach

Dr Laura Brandt is one of the winners of the 2016 EMCDDA scientific award. The prize, inaugurated in 2011 by the EMCDDA and its Scientific Committee, celebrates scientific writing and distinguishes high-quality...
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Interview: Responses to new psychoactive substances in specialised treatment

Information on health responses to the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is emerging but, in many cases, remains anecdotal.
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What is needed in future drug treatment research? A systematic approach to identify gaps on effectiveness of drug treatment from the EMCDDA

The EMCDDA wants to contribute to the broader debate on how to translate evidence into action and it offers a possible way to support decision makers to set the health research agenda.
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Video: Treatment for cocaine dependence

While cocaine remains the most commonly used illicit stimulant in Europe, challenges still exist around the provision of treatment to users.  
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Heroin on trial: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials of diamorphine-prescribing as treatment for refractory heroin addiction

Supervised injectable heroin (SIH) is found to be an effective way of treating heroin dependence in a patient population previously considered unresponsive to treatment. It can improve the impact of comprehensive healthcare...
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Digital interventions for problematic cannabis users in non-clinical settings: findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis

Existing cannabis treatment programs reach only a very limited proportion of people with cannabis-related problems. The aim of this systematic review and metaanalysis was to assess the effectiveness of digital interventions applied...
Last updated : 04.12.2019
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  • Evidence of ineffectiveness

Las directrices internacionales basadas en la evidencia (OMS, 2014) no recomiendan la farmacoterapia para el tratamiento rutinario de la dependencia de los estimulantes y del cannabis en mujeres embarazadas

Name of response option
  • Farmacoterapia
Desired outcome(s)
  • improve treatment outcomes
  • retain patients in treatment
Area(s)
  • Treatment
Specific substance or pattern of use
  • cannabis
Target group(s) or setting(s)
  • pregnant women

References

WHO (2014) Guidelines for the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy
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