Publications by authors named "I G Yakovenko"
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- - The 2024 update of the 2018 National Guideline for Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder emphasizes the need for current scientific evidence to inform treatment practices for opioid use disorder in Canada.
- - A comprehensive review from 2017 to 2023 was conducted to revise the guidelines, involving a national committee including those with personal experience in opioid use disorder, and ensuring quality through established methods.
- - Key changes in the recommendations include recognizing methadone and buprenorphine as equally effective first-line treatments, introducing slow-release oral morphine as a second-line option, and highlighting that psychosocial interventions should be optional rather than mandatory.
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- PTSD and cannabis use disorder (CUD) often occur together, possibly due to learned associations between trauma cues and the desire for relief through cannabis.
- A study involving 202 participants explored the effects of writing about traumatic versus neutral topics on feelings and cravings related to cannabis, revealing notable differences in emotional responses and craving levels based on the type of writing and PTSD status.
- The findings suggest that online expressive writing can be an effective tool for addressing negative emotions and cravings in individuals with PTSD and CUD, offering potential strategies for prevention and treatment.
Trauma cue-elicited activation of automatic cannabis-related cognitive biases are theorized to contribute to comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and cannabis use disorder. This phenomenon can be studied experimentally by combining the trauma cue reactivity paradigm (CRP) with cannabis-related cognitive processing tasks. In this study, we used a computerized cannabis approach-avoidance task (AAT) to assess automatic cannabis (vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: While individuals have many motives to gamble, one particularly risky motive for gambling is to cope with negative affect. Conflict with one's romantic partner is a strong predictor of negative affect, which may elicit coping motives for gambling and, in turn, gambling-related problems. Support for this mediational model was demonstrated in relation to drinking-related problems.
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