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Ενημερωτικό δελτίο: Παγκόσμια Ημέρα κατά της Χρήσης και της Παράνομης Διακίνησης Ναρκωτικών
Το ψήφισμα 42/112 της Γενικής Συνέλευσης των Ηνωμένων Εθνών του Δεκεμβρίου 1987, το οποίο εορτάζεται ετησίως από το 1988, σηματοδοτεί σήμερα την 29η Διεθνή Ημέρα κατά της Χρήσης και της Παράνομης Διακίνησης Ναρκωτικών.
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...European Drug Report 2017
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Community Convening Guide: Substance Use Prevention, Screening, and Early Intervention
A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...
Παρεμβάσεις χρήσης ουσιών με στόχο την προσωπικότητα: Λειτουργούν;
Οι μαθητές υψηλού κινδύνου επωφελούνται περισσότερο από ψυχολογικές παρεμβάσεις παρά από τις συνήθεις πρωτοβουλίες εκπαίδευσης για τα ναρκωτικά;
Πολλές έρευνες δείχνουν ότι υπάρχουν, στην πραγματικότητα, ορισμένες σημαντικά θετικές...
Πρόληψη της βίας μέσω μέτρων μείωσης της κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ
Ο Παγκόσμιος Οργανισμός Υγείας δημοσίευσε μια σειρά ενημερώσεων σχετικά με την πρόληψη της βίας. Ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον παρουσιάζει το Κεφάλαιο 3: Πρόληψη της βίας μέσω της μείωσης της διαθεσιμότητας και της επιβλαβούς χρήσης αλκοόλ.
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Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
How to Implement Effective School-Based Drug Education
Technical Consultation on Updating the Prevention Standards
Gilberto Gerra, Chief of the Drug Prevention and Health Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opens the meeting on the "Technical consultation on updating the prevention standards" at UNODC headquarters in Vienna.
...ISSUP at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting
Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research...
Parental Absence in Early Childhood and Onset of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption before Adolescence
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Background: Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in...
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Gender-Specific Predictors of At-Risk Adolescents’ Hazardous Alcohol Use
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Background
Previous research has found strong associations between adolescents’ hazardous alcohol use and their perception of peer behavior, as well as own spending money and a range of antisocial behaviors. However, there is...
State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016
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What is already known about this topic?
The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and...
Τρέχουσα και υπερβολική κατανάλωση αλκοόλ μεταξύ μαθητών γυμνασίου — Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής, 1991-2015
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Κάθε χρόνο από το 2006 έως το 2010, η υπερβολική κατανάλωση αλκοόλ ευθύνεται για περίπου 4.300 θανάτους μεταξύ ατόμων ηλικίας <21 ετών και, το 2010, η κατανάλωση αλκοόλ από ανήλικους...
Does Plain Packaging Cause a Reduction in the Prevalence of Smoking?
Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death worldwide. A recently published Cochraine Review has found that standardised, or plain, tobacco packaging could make tobacco products less appealing and, in turn, lead to a reduction in...
Higher Taxes Needed to Lower Smoking Rates in South Asia
New research published in The British Medical Journal supports the need to increase taxes on tobacco products in South Asia, suggesting that doing so could reduce consumption by at least 1/3 and, in turn, avoid around 35 - 45 million...
What Is There to Know About Psychosocial Interventions in Drug Treatment?
Psychosocial interventions are psychological or social interventions used to tackle issues related to substance abuse and behavioural addictions. They can be employed to identify and treat problems, as well as to assist with user...
New Publication: EMCDDA’s Prevention of Addictive Behaviours
An updated version of the publication Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is now available in English. Global in scope, it provides an up-to-date review of prevention science...
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