Prevalence of drug use in the DC Metropolitan Area institutionalized population, 1991.

Shipping list no.: 94-0324-P.

The wildcat experiment : an early test of supported work in drug abuse rehabilitation /

Mode of access: Internet.

Employer's guide to the employment of former drug and alcohol abusers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Comprehensive narcotic addiction and drug abuse care and control act of 1969. Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, first and second sessions.

Hearings held Sept. 18-Nov. 3, 1969, in Washington, D.C.; Jan. 26, 1970, in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Summary statistics, civil commitment program for narcotic addicts

Mode of access: Internet.

A trajetória de um serviço público em álcool e outras drogas no município de Vitória : o caso do CPTT

Comunicação oral apresentada na 18th World Conference of Social Work realizada em 2006 em Munique, Alemanha.

Programa de competências pessoais e sociais para adultos em exclusão social

Trabalho apresentado em XIII Congreso Internacional Galego-Portugués de Psicopedagoxía, Área 8 Interculturalidad, inclusión social y educación. Universidad da Coruña, 3 de Setembro de 2015.

Acute pain in adults admitted to the emergency room: development and implementation of abbreviated guidelines.

AIM: Although acute pain is frequently reported by patients admitted to the emergency room, it is often insufficiently evaluated by physicians and is thus undertreated. With the aim of improving the care of adult patients with acute pain, we developed and implemented abbreviated clinical practice guidelines (CG) for the staff of nurses and physicians in our hospital's emergency room. METHODS: Our algorithm is based upon the practices described in the international literature and uses a simultaneous approach of treating acute pain in a rapid and efficacious manner along with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. RESULTS: Pain was assessed using either a visual analogue scale (VAS) or a numerical rating scale (NRS) at ER admission and again during the hospital stay. Patients were treated with paracetamol and/or NSAID (VAS/NRS <4) or intravenous morphine (VAS/NRS > or =04). The algorithm also outlines a specific approach for patients with headaches to minimise the risks inherent to a non-specific treatment. In addition, our algorithm addresses the treatment of paroxysmal pain in patients with chronic pain as well as acute pain in drug addicts. It also outlines measures for pain prevention prior to minor diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. CONCLUSIONS: Based on published guidelines, an abbreviated clinical algorithm (AA) was developed and its simple format permitted a widespread implementation. In contrast to international guidelines, our algorithm favours giving nursing staff responsibility for decision making aspects of pain assessment and treatment in emergency room patients.

Apoyo social a drogodependientes en programa de mantenimiento con metadona en una prisión

Goal: To learn more about the social support available to patients participating in a prison methadone maintenance program (PMM). Methodology: Descriptive, with controls. Setting: A penitentiary in Albolote (Granada) Population Sample: The total prison population was 1,579; 364 patients were included in the PMM; 35 were female and 329 were male. 60 patients, 7 women and 53 men, were used as cases. 30 non-drug dependent prisoners, 3 women and 27 men, were the control group. They had no antecedents of problems with drug addiction. Interventions: Interviews with cases and controls to learn about their addictive antecedents, family structure, socio-economic level, and a hetero-applied MOS questionnaire was completed. Percentages of each social support variable were obtained and compared using the chi-squared technique. Results: The overall support received is low in 38 cases (74.5%) and in 9 controls (30%): p = 0.0001. OR 0.1466, confidence interval at 95% (0.0538-0.3989). Support received is normal in 13 cases (25%) and 21 controls (70%): p = 0.0007. OR 0.69, confidence interval at 95% (0.44-0.93). All of the variables were statistically significant for non-drug addicts, except for emotional support, which was the same for both groups. Conclusion: The perception of inmates participating in the methadone maintenance program was that they received less social support than the non-drug dependent inmates.

Estudi de la viabilitat d'incorporar la figura del/de la psicopedagog/a al CAS Teresa Ferrer

Anàlisi de funcionament del Centre d’Atenció i Seguiment de drogodependents (CAS) Teresa Ferrer), i posterior proposta de viabilitat per incorporar la figura del/de la psicopedagog/a en un centre com aquest. Es busca un suport legal que ho recolzi, i es fa una exposició de totes les funcions que podria assolir aquest nou professional, incloent-hi les que actualment ja es duen a terme i altres que es podrien realitzar

First consumption ever of multiple substances: applying an expert-based taxonomy to a Swiss national sample of adolescents.

The use of multiple legal and illegal substances by adolescents is a growing concern in all countries, but since no consensus about a taxonomy did emerge yet, it is difficult to understand the different patterns of consumption and to implement tailored prevention and treatment programs directed towards specific subgroups of the adolescent population. Using data from a Swiss survey on adolescent health, we analyzed the age at which ten legal and illegal substances were consumed for the first time ever by applying a method combining the strength of both automatic clustering and use of substance experts. Results were then compared to 30 socio-economic factors to establish the usefulness of and to validate our taxonomy. We also analyzed the succession of substance first use for each group. The final taxonomy consists of eight groups ranging from non-consumers to heavy drug addicts. All but four socio-economic factors were significantly associated with the taxonomy, the strongest associations being observed with health, behavior, and sexuality factors. Numerous factors influence adolescents in their decision to first try substances or to use them on a regular basis, and no factor alone can be considered as an absolute marker of problematic behavior regarding substance use. Different processes of experimentation with substances are associated with different behaviors, therefore focusing on only one substance or only one factor is not efficient. Prevention and treatment programs can then be tailored to address specific issues related to different youth subgroups.

Acute opiate overdose: characteristics of 190 consecutive cases.

AIMS: To characterize the population of drug users consulting the Emergency Room (ER) of a university hospital with acute opiate overdose (AOO) and to assess rate of referral to specialized treatment programme. DESIGN: Survey of a 12-month sample of AOO patients. MEASUREMENTS: Medical and psychosocial features of the drug users, details of emergency treatment and referral by a mobile resuscitation team (SMUR) and the ER of our hospital (CHUV-Lausanne, Switzerland). In addition fatal AOO cases were collected by the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) during the same period. FINDINGS: One hundred and eighty-four cases of AOO (134 patients) were treated. The files of the IFM detailed six additional deceased cases. This population of drug users was characterized by an over-representation of men (73%), by young age (27.4 years), by a high rate of multi-drugs use (90%) and by a high rate of multiple previous overdoses (2.6). Average length of stay was 20.1 hours but 41% of cases stayed less than 8 hours. Only one patient was readmitted within an 8-hour period. When discharged, 78% returned home. Unexpectedly, 67% of patients were not referred to any therapeutic programme for drug addiction. CONCLUSION: This study shows the low mortality of AOO when treated but also demonstrates the need to improve psychosocial evaluation and referral of drug addicts admitted with AOO.

Toivo paranemisesta : nuoren naisen päihdetarinan rakentuminen haastattelussa

Abstract: Constructing a "drug-story" of a young woman in a research interview

Facteurs associés à l’alliance thérapeutique en toxicomanie : effets modérateurs de la judiciarisation et des troubles sévères de santé mentale

La toxicomanie a des répercussions importantes tant pour les individus qui en souffrent que pour la société en général (MSSS, 2007). L’efficacité des traitements offerts aux toxicomanes est toutefois affaiblie par la difficulté à maintenir et à engager en traitement cette clientèle (Meier et al., 2006). Dans ce contexte, et puisque la qualité de l’alliance thérapeutique est associée aux résultats et à la persévérance en traitement (Martin et al., 2000; Meier et al., 2005a), l’alliance qui se développe entre le client et le thérapeute en cours de thérapie peut être vue comme une piste de solution prometteuse pour améliorer l’efficacité des traitements de la toxicomanie. La présente étude se propose d’identifier les facteurs associés à l’alliance thérapeutique développée par une clientèle toxicomane en traitement (n = 269). L’étude s’intéresse également à l’influence de doubles problématiques (toxico-justice, toxico-santé mentale) sur les relations existantes entre l’alliance et ces facteurs (effets modérateurs). Les liens entre l’alliance thérapeutique et différentes variables (santé mentale, consommation, satisfaction envers les services, motivation, soutien social, pressions légales) ont été examinés à l’aide d’analyses de régression hiérarchique. Les résultats indiquent que le profil de consommation évalué avant l’entrée en traitement covarie avec l’alliance thérapeutique. Les troubles cognitifs et la satisfaction envers les services sont les deux principales variables évaluées lors de la thérapie de groupe qui sont associées à l’alliance. Des effets modérateurs de la présence de problématiques associées à la toxicomanie (justice, santé mentale) sur la relation entre certaines variables indépendantes et l’alliance ont finalement été observés.

Entourage d'un toxicomane. Profil clinique: besoins, interventions et impacts.

Rapport de stage présenté à la Faculté des Arts et des Sciences en vue de l'obtention du grade de Maîtrise ès sciences (M.Sc.) en criminologie.