Substance-Related Disorders - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Consequences of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in China: recommendations for integrated care of HIV-infected drug users.

29 Sep 2009 Drug abuse is a complicated social phenomenon rather than a neural disease. It especially fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Researchers have shown interest in HIV-infected drug users as the socially and medically marginalized population, but they did not ... Read more...

The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Environmental contingencies inherent in neighborhoods and communities have been shown to affect individual behavior. The authors analyzed neighborhood and individual factors predicting initial outpatient treatment attendance and ... Read more...

Application of a standardized assessment methodology within the context of an evidence-based treatment for substance abuse and its associated problems.

30 Aug 2009 Administrators of community-based treatment programs are increasingly being required to utilize psychometrically validated instruments to measure the effectiveness of their interventions. However, developers of psychometric measures have often ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Substance-Related Disorders - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• Public accountability in addiction treatment. 8 Oct 2009
• Applying health care reform principles to mental health and substance abuse services. 5 Oct 2009
• Consequences of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS in China: recommendations for integrated care of HIV-infected drug users. 29 Sep 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 2009
• Application of a standardized assessment methodology within the context of an evidence-based treatment for substance abuse and its associated problems. 30 Aug 2009
• Toward a theory of motivational interviewing. 30 Aug 2009
• Influence of gender, sexual orientation, and need on treatment utilization for substance use and mental disorders: findings from the California Quality of Life Survey. 12 Aug 2009
• Attitudes towards 12-step groups and referral practices in a 12-step naive treatment culture; a survey of addiction professionals in Norway. 10 Aug 2009
• Mexican drug violence intertwined with US demand for illegal drugs. 3 Aug 2009
• Approach to treatment of mental illness and substance dependence in remote Indigenous communities: results of a mixed methods study. 30 Jul 2009
• The impact of emotional and material social support on women's drug treatment completion. 30 Jul 2009
• Methamphetamine colitis: a rare case of ischemic colitis in a young patient. 30 Jul 2009
• Family behavior therapy for substance abuse and other associated problems: a review of its intervention components and applicability. 8 Jul 2009
• A "community-friendly" version of integrated group therapy for patients with bipolar disorder and substance dependence: a randomized controlled trial. 29 Jun 2009
• Substance use disorders and ADHD. 29 Jun 2009
• Déjà vu--maybe? 29 Jun 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care: findings from the 2007 Australian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 29 Jun 2009
• Comorbidity in Australia: findings of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 29 Jun 2009
• 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: methods and key findings. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Substance-Related Disorders'

Definition: Disorders related to substance abuse, the side effects of a medication, toxin exposure, and ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS.

Descriptor UI: D019966

Alternative terms: Substance-Related Disorders; Drug Dependence; Dependence, Drug; Drug Addiction; Addiction, Drug; Drug Habituation; Habituation, Drug; Drug Usage; Usage, Drug; Substance Use Disorders; Disorder, Substance Use; Substance Use Disorder; Glue Sniffing; Sniffing, Glue; Organic Mental Disorders, Substance-Induced; Organic Mental Disorders, Substance Induced; Substance Abuse; Abuse, Substance; Abuses, Substance; Substance Abuses; Substance Dependence; Dependence, Substance; Substance Addiction; Addiction, Substance; Drug Abuse; Abuse, Drug; Drug Use Disorders; Disorder, Drug Use; Drug Use Disorder;

Related Mesh Headings: Drug and Narcotic Control; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Street Drugs; Designer Drugs; Codependency (Psychology); Alcohol-Related Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739; F03.900;

History Note: 98(63)

Technical Notes: consider also PSYCHOSES, SUBSTANCE-INDUCED or PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC; /diag: consider SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION