Archive for the ‘Interventions’ Category
A Grounded Theory of Detoxification-Seeking Among Heroin Users in South East Ireland
No CommentsThis study explores a central phenomenon of detoxification-seeking among heroin users in the South East of Ireland, through a grounded theory approach.
The study conceptualises detoxification-seeking as a help-seeking behaviour, experienced by heroin users, but not all, in response to and as a consequence of the complex experience of being heroin dependent, and wanting to become abstinent. The core category, ‘forging a pathway towards abstinence from heroin’, provides an insight into challenges and tasks that research participants undertook when their aim was abstinence.
Toward a Syndrome Model of Addiction: Multiple Expressions, Common Etiology
No CommentsIt is common for clinicians, researchers, and public policy makers to describe certain drugs or objects (e.g., games of chance) as “addictive,” tacitly implying that the cause of addiction resides in the properties of drugs or other objects. Conventional wisdom encourages this view by treating different excessive behaviors, such as alcohol dependence and pathological gambling, as distinct disorders. Evidence supporting a broader conceptualization of addiction is emerging.
ROUTES TO RECOVERY: PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR DRUG MISUSE
No CommentsThe document describes for each psychosocial intervention the key competences for that intervention, presenting these within a common framework for describing such competences that is discussed in some detail. It also provides a specimen training curriculum for each intervention, a specimen protocol for implementation, specimen audit criteria, and adherence measures that can be used either for direct supervision and monitoring, or within wider clinical governance activity. Most of these tools are available in the appendices.
Prescribing heroin to addicts who can’t kick their habit helps them stay off street drugs
No CommentsSo far, doctors have had little hope of treating the 10 percent or more of heroin users who don’t respond to methadone, the standard anti-addiction medication. Fueled by drug cravings, those users often spiral downward into crime and diseases spread by dirty needles and unhealthy living.
Free Substance Abuse Treatment
No CommentsAccording to the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the most common reason why individuals with substance use problems do not seek treatment is the financial burden imposed by a lack of health insurance or health insurance without a behavioral health benefit, and/or insufficient means to pay for treatment.Nevertheless, a review of admissions to substance abuse treatment in 2007 shows that nearly 60 percent of all admissions did not have health insurance of any kind.
