Cannabis early detection and Treatment

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Cannabis early detection and Treatment

• Pleven 2006
• Emmanuel Streel

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Cannabis and therapeutic strategies

• Cannabis clinic experience
• History
• Philosophy
• Services
• Evaluation
• Therapeutic intervention
• Various collaboration
• School
• GPs
• Psychiatrists

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Population

• A specific profile ?
• Types of patients
• Children / Teenagers / Young adults
• Double diagnose (psychosis,)
• Patients with a specific demand
• Sleep
• Addiction
• health
• Why
• Psychological or neuropsychological concerns
• Family
• School
• GPs (nicotine addiction and cannabis)

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How ?

• 1st consultation
• The patients will
• Proposal
• Physical
• Blood tests
• Aim immediate action
• Psychology
• Anamnesis
• Testing (psychology and neuropsychology)
• Aim to help the patient to focus on the drug
  intake

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• 2nd and 3rd consultation
• Anamnesis (heteroanamnesis) and testing
• To do between consultation
• Blood test
• Questionnaires
• For-against
• gains and losses
• Long-term objectives
• Daily intake
• 4th consultation
• Feed back and set-up of therapeutic strategy

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• Basics
• Immediate action
• Importance of evaluation
• Drug intake monitoring
• Give several appointments
• To start the therapy within 15 days
• Treatment

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Early detection ?

• We find what we are looking for

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Early detection

• Acknowledge the cannabis problem
• Stress clinic
• Alcohol clinic
• Pain clinic
• Cannabis Center
• Clinical work
• information - evaluation
• Research
• Network of excellence

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Interventions

• Brief interventions involving
• Assessment
• Motivational interviewing
• Social support
• Intensive psychotherapy
• Group-based treatment
• Access to community-based support