Epidemiology of Migration Substance Use Disorder in Latin American Populations and Migration to the United StatesmigrationLatin AmericaHispanics in the United Statesalcoholillicit drugssubstance abuse disordershealth service useDifferent rates of substance abuse disorders among foreign and native-born Hispanics ...
Today’s medical and scientific communities define addiction as a disease, a health condition like cancer or diabetes. And the Americans With Disabilities Act prohibits employers from discriminating against a person with a substance-use disorder (so long as they are not currently engaged in the ille...
Is substance abuse a disorder? Which countries have the lowest rates of substance use disorder? How many people are diagnosed with bipolar disorder? What causes substance abuse disorders? Drug addiction is a complex problem in America. What do you think is the primary reason why drug use is ...
Here are some tips to help employees who are struggling with a substance use disorder: Help reduce the stigma around addiction. Treat it as a disease instead of a character flaw. Offer treatment as part of your employee benefits program. Educate managers and human resources staff about...
These models address the impact of disease and services on the client’s overall well being. With this in mind, the goal for treatment of addiction is recovery, which is an improved quality of life. However, substance use disorder in a chronic disease perspective, and quality of life, have...
Analysis of data gathered between 2008 and 2012 from more than 111,500 adults with full-time jobs revealed that 9.5 percent of them had an alcohol or illicit-drug disorder in the previous year. "Substance use issues pose an enormous risk to the health, safety and productivity of American wor...
Illinois Rep.Anna Moellerfor her work on House Bill 0002, amending the Substance Use Disorder Act to pilot overdose prevention sites, and for her work limiting step therapy. Mississippi Rep.Sam Creekmorefor his leadership to pass HB 1222, which f...
/PRNewswire/ -- Recovery Centers of America (RCA), a healthcare network of substance use disorder treatment facilities on the East Coast and Midwest, announced...
Demographic trends of binge alcohol use and alcohol use disorders among older adults in the United States, 2005-2014 Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2017) J.Menniset al. Racial and ethnic disparities in outpatient substance use disorder treatment episode completion for different substances ...
In Latin America, treatments are one of the main tools for reducing risks associated with substance use disorders (SUD) (Marín-Navarrete et al., 2018). Nevertheless, it is common to find a high proportion of people who do not complete the treatment (Nordheim et al., 2018, Simon et al....