A new guidance document for commissioning drug and alcohol services has been released by the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCPMH). Guidance for commissioners of drug and alcohol services [pdf] presents an overview of key considerations for those with local remits for developing treatment services
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-liaison, commissioning, from-the-invest, health, highlights-ten, impact-changes, local strategy, nice, public-health, recovery, resources-now, support-drug
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The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week’s PLOS Medicine…
Abstract Aim To investigate the association between patterns of alcohol consumption and self-reported physical and mental health in a population with a high prevalence of hazardous drinking. Design Cross-sectional study of an age-stratified random sample of a population register. Setting The city of Izhevsk, The Russian Federation, 2008-9.
Abstract Background and aims Cross-study comparisons of effect sizes suggest that varenicline is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in aiding smoking cessation, but evidence from direct comparisons is limited. This study compared biochemically verified 52-week sustained abstinence rates in smokers attending the same clinical service according to whether they used varenicline or NRT in their quit attempt.
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Also tagged 519-varenicline, aiding-smoking, carbon-monoxide, choice, large-smoking, medication, nrt, primary-outcome, quit, study, study-compared, their-choice, therapy-options
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The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this week’s PLOS Medicine…
Recent bulletins from the drug and alcohol bank : TEENAGE PEER INFLUENCE ON DRINKING IS NO ILLUSION Is the peer influence on which many prevention programmes are based an illusion due to other factors like pupils sharing similar environments or choosing like-minded friends?
An Alcohol Concern briefing has warned of a 150% rise in hospital admissions for over 60’s with alcohol related mental health problems in the last decade. The briefing 'Trends in alcohol related admissions for older people with mental health problems: 2002 to 2012' finds a disproportionate rise amongst older adults, despite an overall rise in all adults and accounting for a growing older population. The briefing looks at hospital data for those admitted to hospitals in England with mental and behavioural disorders associated with alcohol use. Dr Tony Rao, an alcohol and older people mental health specialist and author of the report, warned that “increasing numbers of older people are living with alcohol related dementia, anxiety and depression – and it’s their loved ones, carers and the rest of society who are left picking up the pieces.
Most of the deaths that result from underage drinking are not traffic-related, warns Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
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Also tagged deaths, die-each, drunk, drunk-driving, from-underage, madd, mental, mothers, services, substance, substance-abuse, the-deaths, the-new
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In this issue describe the various barriers which drug users with mental health problems need to overcome in order to access a targeted threshold service. Whilst their work is illuminating in terms of understanding these barriers, it raises the question of what a low threshold service is. The term ‘low-threshold’ has become an expression widely used in the field of psychoactive drug use and harm reduction.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged crucial-feature, documented, from-convenient, from-the-same, other-potential, potential, provided-onsite, simple-services, such-situations, their-reduction, tired-or-unwell, valid-documents, waiting-periods, work
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People with mental illnesses are more than seven times more likely to use cannabis weekly compared to people without a mental illness, according to researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) who studied U.S. data.
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Also tagged addiction, centre, estimated-203, from-the-centre, mental-illness, million-people, seven-times, the-most, weekly-compared, widely-used
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