Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Healthy_lifestyle%2C_Zlat%C3%A1_Ba%C5%88a_25_Slovakia_1.jpg Making Progress Without Quitting: How Cutting Down on Opioid Use Can Improve Lives Traditional treatments for prescription-type opioid addiction often focus on complete abstinence. However, this approach doesn’t always fit the needs of people struggling with opioid use, especially with the rise of fentanyl use. A harm reduction approach—including helping people cut back rather than quit entirely—may still…

Panel on “Continuum de la réduction des méfaits et les défis de son implantation dans les milieux de soins en santé mentale” Photo by Cédric Pek, 28 November 2024. On November 28, the Annual Scientific Day of the Centre of Expertise and Collaboration in Concurrent Disorders (CECTC) took place. Hundreds of stakeholders in the fields of mental health and substance…

  Although many more traditional mental health and public health interventions and prevention strategies exist, some of which have repeatedly demonstrated their effectiveness (1,2), the vast majority of these digital tools remain under-utilized by the population that could benefit from them. There are many reasons for this (financial, socio-economic, shortage of clinical staff, stigmatization) (3), and the scientific community has…