Trends in Telemedicine Use for Addiction Treatment

Molfenter, Todd; Boyle, Mike; Holloway, Don C.; Zwick, Janet

doi:10.30953/tmt.v2.19

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“…Mobile vans providing needle exchange can service a wider catchment area and have been shown to effectively reach remote/hidden populations of PWUD (Islam and Conigrave 2007). Interventions for PWUD delivered via mobile devices (e.g., text message interventions, smartphone applications) have also shown promise in improving access to care and dissemination of services in rural areas (Ingersoll et al 2014;Marsch, Carroll, and Kiluk 2014;Molfenter et al 2015). Considering that mobile phones were ubiquitous among study participants and that accessing drug treatment services was difficult from their rural villages, mobile-based interventions could be beneficial for this population.…”

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Emerging Drug Use Trends in Kelantan, Malaysia

Desrosiers

Chooi

Zaharim

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Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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The primarily rural and agrarian Kelantan province of Malaysia has high rates of drug use and is characterized by unique sociocultural factors. Combining qualitative and ethnographic methods, we investigated drug use and treatment needs of people who use drugs (PWUD) in rural areas of Kelantan. In February 2014, field visits, participant observation, and focus group discussions (FGDs) with 27 active PWUD were conducted in rural areas surrounding the capital city of Kelantan. The findings indicate a high prevalence of opiate and amphetamine type stimulants (ATS) use in these areas. FGD participants reported initiating drug use at early ages due to peer influences, to relieve boredom, to cope with problems, and a high saturation of villages with other PWUD was reported as a major contributor to their own continued drug use. They reported a trend of drug use initiation at younger ages and increased drug use among females. Participants were interested in treatment; however, their limited knowledge about treatment options and perceived limited availability of services were barriers to treatment seeking. Easy access to drugs, primarily from Thailand and facilitated by the use of mobile phones, resulted in an expanding prevalence of drug use that underscores the need to bolster education and prevention efforts and accessibility of treatment services in Kelantan.

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Emerging Drug Use Trends in Kelantan, Malaysia

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Chooi

Zaharim

et al. 2016

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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“…The project exhibited that in spite of the significant enthusiasm for addiction telemedicine, yet execution challenges exist. (Todd Molfenter, et al 2015).…”

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Feasibility study of the telemedicine systems deployment in rehabilitation centers for addiction therapy

Sadeghzadeh

2018

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Objective: This study aim was to determine the feasibility to establish a telemedicine system in one of the rehabilitation and addiction treatment centers in Tehran. Materials and Methods: This study was descriptive-cross sectional. The research population consisted of 28 people, who were the head and Senior Executive Manager, financial director, IT manager, physicians, nurses and counselors of the addiction center. Due to the small number of statistical population, a total number of sampling was performed. The field research tool was interview, observation and standard questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed by professors and experts and its reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.87). SPSS software was used to analyze the data. Results: Our studied center, has the sufficient technical infrastructures needed to implement Telemedicine, and the IT department has a good level of awareness about telemedicine technology. The center does not have any strategic plan that includes telemedicine, and the manager board does not support telemedicine, but the center has the support of the chief executive manager on this matter. The shortage of technical staff, insurance and reimbursement problems, initial costs and medical staff shortages, current costs, and training and medical staff resistance are, in the order of priority, the major barriers to telemedicine implementation, and time barriers, employee attitudes, privacy and licensing issues , issues of confidentiality and competition are less important. Conclusion: Considering that the Rehabilitation and Addict Treatment Center has the technical infrastructures necessary for the implementation of the telemedicine system, as well as the IT department manager is familiar with telemedicine technology, the cost of deploying this system in the center is not significant and is cost-effective. It is recommended to develop an appropriate strategic plan, conduct training programs to change the administrative staff culture and coordinate with the insurer's organizations.

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“…P.Anand 1 , P.Arjun 2 , N.Bharath Kumar 3 , K.Gowtham 4 1 Assistant Professor , 2,3,4 Student of R.M.K Engineering College…”

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“…When there is a patient who is in an urgent need of doctor's attention, there are chances that the patient might not survive the time that it takes for an ambulance to reach him. According to a recent article in The Dailymail (UK), thousands die because of the Ambulance delays [2]. The biggest problem is that even if the ambulance goes to a location as close as a couple of miles, it might still take about 15 minutes for it to reach the patient.…”

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Trends in Telemedicine Use for Addiction Treatment

Abstract: Methods: A project conducted from February 2013 to June 2014 investigated the adoption of telemedicine

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Emerging Drug Use Trends in Kelantan, Malaysia

Emerging Drug Use Trends in Kelantan, Malaysia

Feasibility study of the telemedicine systems deployment in rehabilitation centers for addiction therapy

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