Lena Lundgren

TL;DR: A need to understand Suds as biopsychosocial disorders and use evidence-based policies to destigmatize SUDs is highlighted and a suite of multi-sectorial actions and strategies are recommended to strengthen, modernize and complement addiction care systems which will become resilient and responsive to future systemic shocks similar to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored barriers to implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) in community-based addiction treatment organizations (CBOs) by comparing staff descriptions of barriers for four EBPs: Motivational Interviewing (MI), Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA), Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), and Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (CBT).

TL;DR: The results suggest that treating mental health problems in IDUs who are not drug free could reduce HIV risk behaviors and the need to develop new intervention methods for high-level drug treatment users who may be "cycling" through treatment with low levels of treatment completion.

TL;DR: The authors examined patterns of drug treatment entry among 28,000 adult injection drug users (IDUs), with special attention to racial and ethnic differences, and found that African American IDUs were half as likely as Caucasian IDUs to enter methadone maintenance treatment.

TL;DR: This national study of MSW programs examines prevalence of addiction courses and specializations and concludes that social work education has not met addiction workforce development needs and there is no evidence this pattern will change.