CAMH Knowledge Exchange gives you quick access to the best available online information, tools and resources. As it evolves, KnowledgeX will also provide opportunities to collaborate and communicate with other addiction and mental health professionals.
Outstanding guide by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the US National Institutes of Health, with simple 4-step structured approach to help you incorporate alcohol screening and intervention into your practice.
Four interactive, 10-minute video cases featuring evidence-based clinical strategies. Each Patient has a different level of severity and readiness to change. Free CME/CE credits for physicians ( AAFP approved) and nurses through Medscape®
An article that assesses the effectiveness of brief intervention, delivered in general practice or based primary care, to reduce alcohol consumption and whether outcomes differ between trials in research settings and those in routine clinical settings.
An article that evaluates the effectiveness and safety of benzodiazepines in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal.
An article to assess the effectiveness of AA or TSF programmes compared to other psychosocial interventions in reducing alcohol intake, achieving abstinence, maintaining abstinence, improving the quality of life of affected people and their families, and reducing alcohol associated accidents and health problems.
Several neuropsychological hypotheses have been formulated to explain the transition to addiction, including hedonic allostasis, incentive salience, and the development of habits. A key feature of addiction that remains to be explored is the important individual variability observed in the propensity to selfadminister drugs, the sensitivity to drug-associated cues, the severity of the withdrawal state, and the ability to quit. In this review, we suggest that the concept of self-regulation, combined with the concept of modularity of cognitive function, may aid in the understanding of the neural basis of individual differences in the vulnerability to drugs and the transition to addiction. The thesis of this review is that drug addiction involves a failure of the different subcomponents of the executive systems controlling key cognitive modules that process reward, pain, stress, emotion, habits, and decision-making. A subhypothesis is that the different patterns of drug addiction and individual differences in the transition to addiction may emerge from differential vulnerability in one or more of the subcomponents.