Unit of addictive behaviors of Paterna awarded at the International Congress of pathology Dual.
-responsible for the unit have received the second prize for his clinical case of Holy hand ”
Valencia, 2011-October unit of addictive behaviors (UCA) in Paterna has been awarded in the competition of clinical cases of the II International Congress of Dual pathology which was held from 5 to 8 October in Barcelona.
Amparo Sánchez Máñez, doctor responsible for the unit, and Carmen Palau Muñoz and Nieves HermosÃn Carpio clinical psychologists have been awarded the second prize for his clinical case of Holy hand ”.
The case raises the benefits of the use of new drugs for the treatment of opioid dependence in a certain profile of patients in follow-up in units of addictive behavior ”, identifies the responsible.
On the other hand, the professionals presented a poster entitled symptoms disejecutiva and pathology dual in a group of older consumers ”, as well as an oral communication, in charge of Carmen Palau, on the severity of the addiction and co-morbidity with other mental disorders, a group of women addicted to opiates, from a gender perspective.
Dual pathology
The dual pathology is the concurrency of substance use disorders and other mental disorders, and affects a large number of patients.
Congress keynote was by DRA. Nora Volkow, Director of NIDA, USA (National Institute of drugs of abuse of United States) under the title the brain and dual pathology ”.
The doctor pointed out that 10% of people exposed to the consumption of drugs becomes addicted. Among the factors responsible for it highlighted the importance of genetics, the environment where they develop youth, age of onset in consumption, as well as the evolutionary stage in which the teenage brain is located.
