Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA) Practice Guide 2023
This guide was drawn from HEALing Communities Study (HCS) learnings to-date and expert insights to provide guidance regarding implementation of ORCCA menu strategies.
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Addiction Language Guide
The Addiction Language Guide serves as a comprehensive resource designed to address and combat stigmatizing language associated with addiction. Stigmatizing language often involves attaching negative labels and stereotypes to specific...
New guidance for drug checking services in health risk communication
The new guidance for drug checking services manual by EMCDDA underlines the need for approaches that are grounded in the best evidence available or principles of effective and safe health risk communication. To date, there has been...
New Guidance on Alcohol
"Drink Less, Live More" is the message of a new advertising campaign launched by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) to promote Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health. Starting in early October, the digital campaign...
Recovery: The Many Paths to Wellness (Chapter 5 from Facing Addiction in America)
The Many Paths to Wellness: Explore Chapter 5 in "Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health," which defines the concept of recovery from substance use disorders and reviews methods used by...
Health & Wellness in Recovery: Programs & Topics
The American Addictions Centers provide insights into how a healthy diet and exercise can enhance overall health and recovery. This resource offers an overview of the root of addiction and how to overcome it through healthy life habits...
Synthetic Opioids: Navigating a Changing Landscape in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
This 35-minute module focuses on how primary care providers can navigate the changing landscape of opioid use disorder in relation to synthetic opioids.
Healing Families, Helping Systems: A Trauma-Informed Practice Guide for Working with Children, Youth & Families
This guide is concerned with advancing understanding and action about trauma-informed approaches that support program and service delivery for/with children, youth, and families. A trauma-informed approach is a system-wide approach that is...
World Drug Report 2023
For the first time since its conception, this year the World Drug Report consists of two products, a web-based element and a set of booklets.
The effects of the cost of living crisis on families and friends of someone with a substance use problem
The impact of addiction on family finances is multiple.
It is therefore no surprise to find that the cost of living crisis is causing additional difficulty and strain to families affected by substance use, adding further complexity to the...
How have governments communicated UK alcohol duty policy changes?
Pricing, including taxation, is a key tool to address harm from alcohol and is identified by the World Health Organization as a ‘best buy’ policy (meaning it is both effective in reducing harm and cost-effective). However alcohol was 72%...
European Drug Report 2023: Trends and Developments
The European Drug Report 2023: Trends and Developments presents the EMCDDA’s latest analysis of the drug situation in Europe. Focusing on illicit drug use, related harms and drug supply, the report contains a comprehensive set of national...
The Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Drug Use Prevention within School Settings A Guiding Document
In the context of law enforcement, the UNODC has developed a guiding document to help support a change of culture on how to make use of the science of prevention for the betterment of the health and safety development of youth.
The UNODC...
Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and related substances
Introduction
The markets for hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and related semi-synthetic cannabinoids (SSC) are rapidly evolving areas with relatively limited information currently available.
The European situation presented in Section 1 can...
The future of drug monitoring in Europe until 2030
Introduction
Patterns of drug use and developments in the drug market in Europe are becoming more complex and dynamic, with major implications for drug monitoring and research. This observation prompted the European Monitoring Centre for...
Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health: Final Report
Canada’s Guidance on Alcohol and Health provides evidence-based advice on alcohol to support people in making informed decisions about their health. The guidance is based on the latest research on alcohol-related risks and replaces Canada’s...
Reakce na infekční nemoci související s drogami: minipříručka EMCDDA
Sdílení injekčního zařízení zvyšuje riziko přenosu a získání infekcí přenášených krví, jako je HIV a hepatitida B a C. Zatímco hepatitida C je nejčastější virovou infekcí přenášenou krví u lidí, kteří injekčně užívají drogy (PWID), injekční...
Bulletin kanadské komunitní epidemiologické sítě o užívání drog (CCENDU): Aktualizace užívání stimulantů a souvisejících škod v Kanadě a ve Spojených státech
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) je celokanadská síť komunitních partnerů koordinovaná Kanadským centrem pro užívání návykových látek a závislost (CCSA). Síť má místa v Britské Kolumbii, Manitobě, Thunder Bay...
Rodiny lidí, kteří užívají drogy: zdravotní a sociální reakce
Tato minipříručka je jednou z rozsáhlejších příruček, které společně zahrnují Zdravotní a sociální reakce na drogovou problematiku: evropský průvodce.
Poskytuje přehled nejdůležitějších aspektů, které je třeba vzít v úvahu při plánování...
Děti, jejichž rodiče užívají drogy: slibné postupy a doporučení
Tato zpráva se zaměřuje na děti vyrůstající v rodinách postižených drogovou a alkoholovou závislostí, jakož i na služby, programy a postupy, které pomáhají chránit dětství a zaručovat potřeby dětí a zároveň se zabývají potřebami rodičů.
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