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Recovery, reintegration, abstinence, harm reduction: the role of different goals within drug treatment in the European context

24.10.2017
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the different goals of ‘drug treatment’ within a European context and the key implications for those planning or delivering health and social responses. The...
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User-led interventions: an expanding resource?

24.10.2017
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

24.10.2017
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

04.11.2013
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

15.11.2016
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

20.06.2016
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

29.08.2014
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

20.05.2014
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

06.07.2015
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

04.05.2016
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...
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