addictions counsellor | drug and alcohol addiction social counsellor | drug and alcohol addiction counsellor | substance abuse counsellor

drug addiction [ drug abuse | drug-taking | fight against drugs | drug addicts(UNBIS) ]

establish action plan for client's addiction | establish action plan for clients' addictions to drugs or alcohol | assess client's drug and alcohol addiction | assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions

...coholism Dipsomania Drug addiction .3 Withdrawal state A group of symptoms of variable clustering and severity occurring on absolute or relative withdrawal of a psychoactive substance after persistent use of that substance. The onset and course of the withdrawal state are time-limited and are related to the type of psychoactive substance and dose being used immediately before cessation or reduction of use. The withdrawal state may be complicated by convulsions. .4 Withdrawal state with delirium A condition where the withdrawal state as defined in the common fourth character .3 is complicated by delirium as defined in F05.-. Convulsion ...[+++]s may also occur. When organic factors are also considered to play a role in the etiology, the condition should be classified to F05.8. Delirium tremens (alcohol-induced) .5 Psychotic disorder A cluster of psychotic phenomena that occur during or following psychoactive substance use but that are not explained on the basis of acute intoxication alone and do not form part of a withdrawal state. The disorder is characterized by hallucinations (typically auditory, but often in more than one sensory modality), perceptual distortions, delusions (often of a paranoid or persecutory nature), psychomotor disturbances (excitement or stupor), and an abnormal affect, which may range from intense fear to ecstasy. The sensorium is usually clear but some degree of clouding of consciousness, though not severe confusion, may be present. Alcoholic:hallucinosis | jealousy | paranoia | psychosis NOS | Excl.: alcohol- or other psychoactive substance-induced residual and late-onset psychotic disorder (F10-F19 with common fourth character .7) .6 Amnesic syndrome A syndrome associated with chronic prominent impairment of recent and remote memory. Immediate recall is usually preserved and recent memory is characteristically more disturbed than remote memory. Disturbances of time sense and ordering of events are usually evident, as are difficulties in learning new material. Confabulation may be marked but is not invariably present. Other cognitive functions are usually relatively well preserved and amnesic defects are out of proportion to other disturbances. Amnestic disorder, alcohol- or drug-induced Korsakov's psychosis or syndrome, alcohol- or other psychoactive substance-induced or unspecified Excl.: nonalcoholic Korsakov's psychosis or syndrome (F04) .7 Residual and late-onset psychotic disorder A disorder in which alcohol- or psychoactive substance-induced changes of cognition, affect, personality, or behaviour persist beyond the period during which a direct psychoactive substance-related effect might reasonably be assumed to be operating. Onset of the disorder should be directly related to the use of the psychoactive substance. Cases in which initial onset of the state occurs later than episode(s) of such substance use should be coded here only where clear and strong evidence is available to attribute the state to the residual effect of the psychoactive substance. Flashbacks may be distinguished from psychotic state partly by their episodic nature, frequently of very short duration, and by their duplication of previous alcohol- or other psychoactive substance-related experiences. Alcoholic dementia NOS Chronic alcoholic brain syndrome Dementia and other milder forms of persisting impairment of cognitive functions Flashbacks Late-onset psychoactive substance-induced psychotic disorder Posthallucinogen perception disorder Residual:affective disorder | disorder of personality and behaviour | Excl.: alcohol- or psychoactive substance-induced:Korsakov's syndrome (F10-F19 with common fourth character .6) | psychotic state (F10-F19 with common fourth character .5) | .8 Other mental and behavioural disorders .9 Unspecified mental and behavioural disorder | Acute drunkenness in alcoholism Bad trips (drugs) Drunkenness NOS Pathological intoxication Trance and possession disorders in psychoactive substance intoxication | Psychoactive substance abuse | Chronic alcoholism Dipsomania Drug addiction | Delirium tremens (alcohol-induced) | Alcoholic:hallucinosis | jealousy | paranoia | psychosis NOS | Amnestic disorder, alcohol- or drug-induced Korsakov's psychosis or syndrome, alcohol- or other psychoactive substance-induced or unspecified | Alcoholic dementia NOS Chronic alcoholic brain syndrome Dementia and other milder forms of persisting impairment of cognitive functions Flashbacks Late-onset psychoactive substance-induced psychotic disorder Posthallucinogen perception disorder Residual:affective disorder | disorder of personality and behaviour ...

apply motivational incentives in counselling for addiction | encourage clients to change their behaviour through use of motivational techniques | apply motivational incentives in addiction counselling | use motivational incentives in addiction counselling

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction [ EMCDDA [acronym] European Monitoring Centre for Drugs ]

smoking [ addiction to tobacco | anti-smoking campaign | nicotinism | tobacco addiction ]

rehabilitation of addicts | rehabilitation of drug addicts

Maternal care for (suspected) damage to fetus from drug addiction

Fetus and newborn affected by maternal use of drugs of addiction

The representative of the Addiction Network is the Berlin addiction agency BOA e.V., which has carried out counselling, qualification and employment measures for people addicted to drugs and helped by medicine in the field of computers and new technologies.

[358] Unless specified otherwise, the information contained in this section is based on the following documents: Mental Health and Addictions, Ministry of Health Services, British Columbia, Brief to the Committee, 9 September 2003; Mental Health and Addictions, Ministry of Health Services, British Columbia, Development of a Mental Health and Addictions Information Plan for Mental Health Literacy, 2003-2005, 4 February 2003; Government of British Columbia, Child and Youth Mental Health Plan for British Columbia, February 2003; Addictions Task Group, Kaiser Youth Foundation, British Columbia, Weaving Threads Together – A New Approach to ...[+++] Address Addictions in BC, March 2001; Minister’s Advisory Council on Mental Health, Moving Forward, Annual Report, 2001; Ministry of Health Services, British Columbia, Revitalizing and Rebalancing British Columbia’s Mental Health System – The 1998 Mental Health Plan, 1998; Information on the Website of the Provincial Health Services Authority (www.phsa.ca) and the British Columbia Mental Health Society or Riverview Hospital (www.bcmhs.bc.ca).

The reality is that there would be fewer addicts looking for addiction treatment programs, because one thing that is clear from every study that has been done on InSite is that addicts are more likely to go into addiction treatment and counselling if they can go to a supervised injection site.

To help us understand this incredibly ambiguous, cumulative societal cost, it is helpful to think of it as something more tangible, like a calculation, let us say the total number of people addicted to all types of drugs, including alcohol, multiplied by the average severity of consequences of the addiction, both to the individuals addicted and to the people indirectly impacted by the addiction.