scholarly journals 347 - Canadian Guidelines on Alcohol & Cannabis Use Disorders Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 109-109
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
World Population ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Cannabis Use Disorders

The United Nations 20171 report on World Population Aging predicts that the number of persons over age 60 years will reach nearly 2.1 billion by the year 2050, representing 22% of the overall population. Despite this predicted demographic surge there is a vast lack of awareness of substance use disorders (SUDs) in older adults, a phenomenon that has been called “an invisible epidemic” by the Royal College of Psychiatrists2. Older adults, principally baby boomers, face the highest risk for SUDs3, but often go underrecognized, undertreated and underrepresented in clinical trials.Vaccarino et al in 20184 has put out a Call to Action to better serve the unmet needs of this population. There is an urgent need for raising awareness and improving education regarding SUDs, especially among older adults. There is also a great need for better training of health care professionals to improve their skills, knowledge, and attitudes towards treating SUDs in older adults. Policy and decision makers regarding health care delivery systems need to be better informed to make wiser decisions in order to improve access and availability of age-specific SUD treatments in older adults. To this end, The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH)5, with a grant from the Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) of Health Canada, has recently created and published an introductory paper 6 and a set of four guidelines on the prevention, assessment, and treatment of alcohol7, benzodiazepine8, cannabis9, and opioid10 use disorders among older adults.This is Part 2 of a two-part presentation of CCSMH’s SUD guidelines highlighting the alcohol and cannabis use disorders in older adults; the second presentation will highlight benzodiazepines and opioid use disorder in older adults.

scholarly journals 346 - Canadian Guidelines on Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use Disorders in Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 107-107
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
World Population ◽  
Benzodiazepine Use ◽  
Health Care Delivery Systems ◽  
Part Presentation

The United Nations 20171 report on World Population Aging predicts that the number of persons over age 60 years will reach nearly 2.1 billion by the year 2050, representing 22% of the overall population. Despite this predicted demographic surge there is a vast lack of awareness of substance use disorders (SUDs) in older adults, a phenomenon that has been called “an invisible epidemic” by the Royal College of Psychiatrists2. Older adults, principally baby boomers, face the highest risk for SUDs3, but often go underrecognized, undertreated and underrepresented in clinical trials.Vaccarino et al in 20184 has put out a Call to Action to better serve the unmet needs of this population. There is an urgent need for raising awareness and improving education regarding SUDs, especially among older adults. There is also a great need for better training of health care professionals to improve their skills, knowledge, and attitudes towards treating SUDs in older adults. Policy and decision makers regarding health care delivery systems need to be better informed to make wiser decisions in order to improve access and availability of age-specific SUD treatments in older adults. To this end, The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH)5, with a grant from the Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) of Health Canada, has recently created and published an introductory paper6 and a set of four guidelines on the prevention, assessment, and treatment of alcohol7, benzodiazepine8, cannabis9, and opioid10 use disorders among older adults.This is Part 1 of a two-part presentation of CCSMH’s SUD guidelines highlighting the opioid and benzodiazepine use disorders in older adults; Part 2, second presentation, will highlight guidelines related to alcohol and cannabis use disorder in older adults.

Attitude of Health Care Professionals Toward Patients With Substance Use Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia A.M. Mahmoud, ◽  
Mona M. El Shiekh, ◽  
Amira R. Kirolos, ◽  
Yomna A. El Hawary
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Health Care Professionals

Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults: Implications for Care Delivery

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 2317-2323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Sahker ◽  
Susan K. Schultz ◽  
Stephan Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Care Delivery

Substance Use Disorders in Health Care Professionals

2010 ◽  
pp. 1375-1398 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Kenna ◽  
Jeffrey N. Baldwin ◽  
Alison M. Trinkoff ◽  
David C. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Health Care Professionals

scholarly journals Variations in the Visual Probe Paradigms for Attention Bias Modification for Substance Use Disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvyn Zhang ◽  
Daniel S. S. Fung ◽  
Helen Smith
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Attention Bias Modification ◽  
Stimulant Use ◽  
Probe Task ◽  
Visual Probe

Advances in experimental psychology have provided evidence for the presence of attentional and approach biases in individuals with substance use disorders. Traditionally, reaction time tasks, such as the Stroop or the Visual Probe Task, are commonly used in the assessment of attention biases. The Visual Probe Task has been criticized for its poor reliability, and other research has highlighted that variations remain in the paradigms adopted. However, a gap remains in the published literature, as there have not been any prior studies that have reviewed stimulus timings for different substance use disorders. Such a review is pertinent, as the nature of the task might affect its effectiveness. The aim of this paper was in comparing the different methods used in the Visual Probe Task, by focusing on tasks that have been used for the most highly prevalent substance disorders—that of opiate use, cannabis use and stimulant use disorders. A total of eight published articles were identified for opioid use disorders, three for cannabis use disorders and four for stimulant use disorders. As evident from the synthesis, there is great variability in the paradigm adopted, with most articles including only information about the nature of the stimulus, the number of trials, the timings for the fixation cross and the timings for the stimulus set. Future research examining attentional biases among individuals with substance use disorders should take into consideration the paradigms that are commonly used and evaluate the optimal stimulus and stimulus-onset asynchrony timings.

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