Clinical Guidelines in Stimulant Use Disorder: Applications and Evaluation

This Research Topic brings together the latest research focused on areas relating to clinical guidelines in the diagnosis and assessment, evaluation, or management of stimulant use disorder.

Contributions could include, but are not limited to, papers on the following themes:
• reliability or validity of existing guidelines in the diagnosis, assessment, evaluation, or management of stimulant use disorder
• limitations of current guidelines and research addressing these limitations
• comparisons of diagnostic criteria between guidelines or between guidelines and other models used in the diagnosis and assessment, evaluation, or management of stimulant use disorder
• studies examining prevalence rates or clinical implications relating to specific guidelines
• research addressing cultural, socioeconomic or other factors relating to the development or use of clinical guidelines in stimulant use disorder
• Reviews and Mini-reviews of current international guidelines
• Opinion and Perspective articles on their application, limitations, and challenges.

Keywords: clinical guidelines, stimulant use disorder, cocaine use disorder

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