Local people using drug and alcohol support services have enjoyed a ‘Celebration of Recovery’ hosted by Cheshire East Substance Misuse Service.
The service, part of Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), held its second annual event to recognise the efforts of staff and service users over the past 12 months.
More than 100 people attended CWP’s Celebration of Recovery at Clonter Opera Theatre in Congleton. The event showcased interactive stalls and a theatre production before the service premiered an inspirational video highlighting its recent work with local people.
This literature review attempted to identify current knowledge of the end of life care needs of patients with drug and alcohol addiction, particularly in the UK, and to identify any existing good practice guidance.
Three themes emerged: first, the need to improve recognition of substance misuse in patients receiving palliative care, and how to meet the pain management challenges palliative care teams face when caring for patients who have current or past opiate, benzodiazepine or alcohol addictions. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
A series of classical and modern films portraying alcoholism and recovery will be screened in cinemas across Shropshire next week.
Shropshire Recovery Film Season starts on Monday 14 November in support of national Alcohol Awareness Week 2016 which runs until Saturday 20th November.
Although the precise drug mechanism of action of acamprosate remains unclear, its antidipsotropic effect is mediated in part through glutamatergic neurotransmission. SSSFT staff can use the OVID link, or you can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
We found 64 new studies through surveillance of this guideline.
This included new evidence on formal psychosocial interventions that support current recommendations. We also identified new evidence on brief interventions and self-help, and residential, prison and inpatient care. We asked topic experts whether this new evidence would affect current recommendations on drug misuse in over 16s in this guideline. Generally, the topic experts thought that an update was not needed.
We did not find any new evidence for the sections on general considerations or identification and assessment of drug misuse.
None of the new evidence considered in surveillance of this guideline was thought to have an effect on current recommendations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommend the tailoring of a brief intervention (BI) programme of research to ensure that it is both culturally and contextually appropriate for the country and the environment in which it is being tested. The majority of BI research has been conducted with non-opioid dependent participants. The current study developed a tailored BI for illicit drug use and alcohol use to a methadone maintained opioid dependent polydrug using cohort of patients.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) identified Internet gaming disorder as a new potential psychiatric disorder and has recognized that little is known about the prevalence, validity, or cross-cultural robustness of proposed Internet gaming disorder criteria. In response to this gap in our understanding, the present study, a first for this research topic, estimated the period prevalence of this new potential psychiatric disorder using APA guidance, examined the validity of its proposed indicators, evaluated reliability cross-culturally and across genders, compared it to gold-standard research on gambling addiction and problem gaming, and estimated its impact on physical, social, and mental health. : Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
To compare acute effects of alcohol on set-shifting task performance (relative to sober baseline performance) during ascending and descending limb breath alcohol concentration (BrAC), as well as possible moderation of these effects by baseline individual differences. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Substance misuse treatment statistical bulletin and commentary, presenting National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) results for adults in contact with structured alcohol and drug treatment agencies in England between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.
Within the field of addiction research, individuals tend to operate within silos of knowledge focused on specific drug classes. The discovery that tobacco dependence develops in a progression of stages and that the latency to the onset of withdrawal symptoms after the last use of tobacco changes over time have provided insights into how tobacco dependence develops that might be applied to the study of other drugs.
Exclusion based on substance use was common in published RCTs for PTSD treatments. Many RCTs used restrictive criteria in terms of SUD diagnosis; Reporting of substance-related outcome findings was uncommon; Most findings reported suggest no disadvantage in PTSD treatment for those with SUD; No clear evidence exclusion criteria relates to PTSD outcome or participant dropout; There is no current evidence that PTSD treatment worsens comorbid SUD. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
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Alcohol misuse often develops during adolescence involving interacting factors deriving from personality, environment and life events that can be assessed with well-established instruments. However, for specific research purposes, involving the assessment of large data sets, it may be beneficial having a short tool of key items representing the most important risk factors. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
This study examines the type of alcohol-related problems that commonly occur before the onset of depressive experiences to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the alcohol-depression comorbidity relationship. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Defensiveness in response to threatening health information related to excessive alcohol consumption prevents appropriate behaviour change. Alternatively, self-affirmation may improve cognitive-affective processing of threatening information, thus contributing to successful self-regulation. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
In this article, we describe the Mindfulness-based approaches that are commonly offered at present. We highlight ways in which these approaches may be useful in the addictions field. We also make suggestions for clinicians who may be interested in offering MBAs within their own service. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Alcohol is the most commonly used recreational drug in the world and the third leading cause of preventable death. Alcohol consumption and alcohol problems have increased steadily over the past six decades. Methods likely to reduce alcohol problems (e.g. minimum pricing, restricting licensing hours and increasing the availability of alcohol treatment) tend not to be supported by the drinks industry. Methods favoured by the industry (e.g. public education, industry self-regulation and product warning labelling) are less effective or do not work. The recent history of alcohol policy clearly demonstrates how the financial power of industry can influence governments and undermine effective public health measures, for instance by lobbying, political donations, confusion marketing and creating financial vested interests by grants from industry-sponsored ‘social aspect organisations’. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.