In last week's issue, we wrote about the recent study of telehealth services for substance use disorder (SUD) treatment in Psychiatric Services (see “Telehealth effectiveness addiction; Jury is still out,” ADAW , Oct. 18, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adaw.33227 ). A comment from National Association Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) that came too late press shows many pr...

a b s t r a c t abstract- methamphetamine has rapidly become more prominent in iran, which is now second most common drug behind heroin. moreover, initiation of methamphetamine abuse is a major cause of failure of opioid treatment programs such as methadone maintenance treatment. this calls for development of more effective treatment methods for methamphetamine addiction, and especially develop...

aims: drug addiction is a mental, social, and economic problem that comes from abnormal and illicit consumption of substances such as alcohol, opium, hashish, and etc., making the addict psychologically and physiologically dependent to those substances. this study was designed and performed to evaluate the pattern of drug abuse change in the addicts visiting addiction treatment centers of kasha...

Social media addiction is characterized by excessive use of social media, which has a negative impact on the normal life individuals. Previous research mainly focused causes addiction, while treatment strategies and specific mechanisms SMA insufficient. We reviewed internal evidence effective exercise intervention therapy, proposed conceptual model for at neurophysiological, psychological, leve...

Aim: A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding de-addiction treatment in clients with alcohol addiction selected communities of Gurugram. Methodology: Non-Experimental design was adopted present study. Purposive sampling technique used select sample size 100 addict residing The assessment carried out using a structured questionnaire de addiction. Result:The findings showed that maxi...

Despite the benefits of smartphones, many adverse effects have emerged. However, to date, there was no particular approach to treat or prevent smartphone addiction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of a home-based daily journal of smartphone use (HDJ-S) in Korean adolescents. Three hundred thirty five middle school students participated in this study. The seve...

BACKGROUND When used in general medical practices, buprenorphine is an effective treatment for opioid dependence, yet little is known about how use of buprenorphine affects the utilization and cost of health care in commercial health systems. METHODS The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to examine how buprenorphine affects patterns of medical care, addiction medicine services,...

In this article, we propose a discrete mathematical model which describes the propagation of drug phenomenon in human population. The population is unscrewed five compartments: "S" People likely to become addicts, "M" Moderate "H" Heavy "T" receiving addiction treatment, "R" recovered people who have completely abstained from addiction. Our goal find better strategy reduce number heavy addicts ...

Little is empirically known about clinical supervision in addiction treatment. This study describes multiple domains of clinical supervision in addiction treatment from the perspectives of clinical supervisors and their counselors. Survey data were obtained from 484 matched clinical supervisor-counselor dyads working in diverse addiction treatment programs across the United States. Supervisors ...

Medication-assisted treatment for opiate addiction is cost-effective. This proposition is supported by scientific literature; the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy concur. The implications of this evidence for public policymakers, however, require an understanding of the meaning of the term “cost-effecti...