This annual statistical report presents information on drug misuse among both adults and children. The topics covered include: •Prevalence of drug misuse, including the types of drugs used •Trends in drug misuse over recent years •Patterns of drug misuse among different groups of the population •Health outcomes related to drug misuse including hospital admissions, drug treatment and number of deaths.
Information for commissioners and providers of substance misuse services to help make the case for investing in drug and alcohol treatment and interventions.
Addiction to playing computer games will be listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the WHO. WHO's 11th International classification of diseases will include the condition 'gaming disorder' when it is published later this year. Symptoms include impaired control over gaming, increased priority given to gaming, and escalating or continuing gaming despite negative consequences.
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Tailored, more inclusive approaches to recovery are critical, and a civil and human right.' Th ese are the words of a gay man who attended an NHS rehab program for alcoholism in which he felt the service did not meet his needs in considering the links between his addiction and sexuality (Prest, 2017). Th is is the kind of situation in which the confi dential monitoring of patients' sexual orientation could lead to patients and service users who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) receiving better, more bespoke services from the NHS, and one of the reasons that NHS England and NHS Digital have published a new standard to improve the recording of sexual orientation data. Monitoring this data will enable health and social organizations to demonstrate that they provide equal access to services for LGBT individuals and contribute to the improvement of care providers' understanding of inequalities in health and care outcomes for different populations.
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We are excited and optimistic about the new care model which has been clinically proven to be effective, with many positive benefits. Its focus will be on greater collaboration with service users, with a shift towards venues in the community where more people can access expert help.
To estimate the long-term efficacy of an internet-based brief intervention (IBI) in decreasing alcohol use among men on 1.) number of drinks/week and 2.) monthly or more binge drinking prevalence. In addition, overall changes in alcohol use were assessed.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
To review systematically the published literature on extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX, Vivitrol®), marketed as a once-per-month injection product to treat opioid use disorder. We addressed the following questions: (1) How successful is induction on XR-NTX?; (2) What are adherence rates to XR-NTX?; and (3) Does XR-NTX decrease opioid use? Factors associated with these outcomes as well as overdose rates were examined.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
To estimate the extent to which specific sexual behaviours (being sexually active, having multiple sex partners, casual sex, condomless casual sex, anal sex, and condomless anal sex) change during periods of methamphetamine use.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
To estimate predictors of time to smoking relapse and test if prediction varied by quit duration.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Alcohol consumption is common in Western countries and has been increasing in older adults. Latest figures from Great Britain suggest 75% of those over 65 years drink, an increase from 71% 10 years ago. Chronic heavy intake is a well-established cause of brain atrophy and dementia, with a recent long-term prospective study from the USA reporting a doubling of the odds of later severe memory impairment in those with a history of an alcohol use disorder. Drinking of moderate amounts has been reported to be protective for brain health in a number of epidemiological studies, including some claims of possibly reducing dementia risk. Rigorous recent research has questioned this belief, with new evidence of harmful associations in moderate drinkers compared with abstainers.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Background: Up to 75% of people with serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have co-occurring substance use disorders (dual diagnosis). Dual diagnosis can have an adverse effect on treatment and prognosis of SMI.
Objectives: To evaluate the effects of risperidone compared to treatment with other antipsychotics (first-generation and other second-generation antipsychotics) used in people with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance misuse.
Open access. Women-only addiction services tend to be provided on a poorly evidenced assumption that women want single-sex treatment. We draw upon women's expectations and experiences of women-only residential rehabilitation to stimulate debate on this issue.
Open access. To assess how far motivation to reduce alcohol consumption in increasing and higher-risk drinkers in England predicts self-reported attempts to reduce alcohol consumption and changes in alcohol intake during the following 6 months.
Adolescents and young adults increasingly view cannabis as a relatively safe drug. Perception of risk associated with cannabis use is negatively correlated with the prevalence of use, but the causal nature of this association is debated. The aim of this study is to quantitate the reciprocal associations between cannabis use and risk perception in a longitudinal panel of emerging adults.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Open access. Although smoking cessation medications have shown effectiveness in increasing abstinence in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), it is unclear to what extent benefits persist over time. This paper assesses whether the benefits of smoking cessation medications decline over the first year.
We investigated the potential of computer-based models to decode diagnosis and lifetime consumption in alcohol dependence (AD) from grey-matter pattern information. As machine-learning approaches to psychiatric neuroimaging have recently come under scrutiny due to unclear generalization and the opacity of algorithms, our investigation aimed to address a number of methodological criticisms.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Healthcare professionals can use these resources to understand:
outcomes of alcohol and drug treatment services in secure settings in England
the profile of adults and young people accessing alcohol and drug treatment services in secure settings
Blog post. Further investigation of the effects of psilocybin may lead to new interventions to create positive changes in healthy people. By Emma Young