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New Access Routes to Undertreated Populations; How Do Problem Substance Users Recruited from An Unemployment office Differ from Drug Detoxification Treatment Inpatients?
(2021-12-09)
Background: Only a minority of subjects with substance use disorders (SUD) are in addic-tion-specific treatment (treatment gap). A co-operation between an unemployment office and a psychiatric hospital was established for ...
Availability of Illegal Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Western Germany
(2021-04-23)
Background: In response to the COVID-19-pandemic, a lockdown was established in the middle of March 2020 by the German Federal Government resulting in drastic reduction of private and professional traveling in and out of ...
Is the Urine Cannabinoid Level Measured via a Commercial Point-of-Care Semiquantitative Immunoassay a Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome Severity Predictor?
(2020-12-03)
Background: For cannabis-dependent subjects, the relationship between cannabis withdrawal syndrome (CWS) severity and the urine cannabinoid concentrations are unclear; we investigated this using a commercial point-of-care ...
High lifetime, but low current, prevalence of new psychotropic substances (NPS) use in German drug detoxification treatment young inpatients
(2020-10-19)
Background: Over the last 15 years, a large number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) has been identified, with their use being associated with a range of acute medical and psychopathological complications. Conversely, ...
Joint versus separate inpatient rehabilitation treatment for patients with alcohol use disorder or drug use disorder : an observational study
(2018-06-25)
Background: In many national treatment systems, patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD) and those with drug use disorders (DUD) are treated separately, while other systems provide joint treatment for both kinds of substance ...
Can reinforcement-based interventions to reduce drug use successfully be adapted to routine opioid maintenance treatment?
(2013-12-01)
Introduction. Comorbid substance related disorders are a major health problem for patients in opioid maintenance treatment (OMT). It was investigated whether a reinforcement scheme adapted to the regulatory and financial ...
Longitudinal patterns of benzodiazepine consumption in a German cohort of methadone maintenance treatment patients
(2011-08)
Objective: Cross-sectional studies show that considerable proportions of opiate dependents in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) consume benzodiazepines (BZD). The longitudinal patterns of BZD use over time were described ...