Clinical Management of Substance Use Disorders: Future Trends

Dear Colleagues,

Drug use is a huge social, medical and economic problem worldwide. Nowadays, increasingly younger people are turning to drugs, the choice of which is increasing. In the face of constantly appearing novel psychoactive substances, we remain powerless. Unfortunately, despite progress in many fields of medicine, addiction treatment remains relatively ineffective. Both harm reduction strategies and the pursuit of complete abstinence are not effective enough. For this reason, it is necessary to search for new solutions in the field of addiction treatment. On the other hand, it is important to avoid an epidemic of addiction but, in doing so, not to cause an epidemic of opioid phobia, which can lead to inadequate treatment and suffering for pain patients.

Undoubtedly, the search for mechanisms of addiction and new ways of treating addicts is necessary. This Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine will report on the current trends in drug-use-disorder prevention and treatment strategies, highlighting novel targets of therapeutic intervention as well as new therapeutic approaches.

Dr. Anna Klimkiewicz
Guest Editor

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