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Using Technology-Based Therapeutic Tools in Behavioural Health Services
For anyone interested in digital health behaviour interventions this manual from SAMHSA will prove interesting. Exploring how technology-assisted care can be implemented, the value of technology based assessments and the ways in which the...
School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works?
School-Based Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention – What Works? is a new briefing paper published by Mentor-Adepis. It outlines several approaches that have been shown to work effectively, and issues cautions about those that have not...
Drug Policy Evaluation
Drug Policy Evaluation: A Seven-Step Guide to Support the Commissioning and Managing of Evaluations is a new resource from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). The document addresses the key issues...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators is a publication by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
It is the second edition of the 1998 EMCDDA...
Synthetic Cannabinoids: What Health Risks Do They Pose?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...
Socioeconomic Position and Adolescent Drinking: What's the Link?
To what extent does socioeconomic position affect adolescent drinking behaviours?
A new article recently published in the academic journal BMC Public Health addresses this question in the context of six different European countries among...
Έκθεση του ΠΟΥ για την παγκόσμια επιδημία καπνού για το 2017
Η τελευταία έκθεση σχετικά με την παγκόσμια επιδημία καπνού από τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας (ΠΟΥ) είναι τώρα διαθέσιμη για λήψη.
Μεταξύ των βασικών ευρημάτων της είναι ότι περίπου 4,7 δισεκατομμύρια άνθρωποι (63% του παγκόσμιου...
Προς μια νέα συναίνεση για την εκπαίδευση της ιατρικής εθισμού
Μια νέα μελέτη ζητά τη γνώμη εμπειρογνωμόνων στον τομέα του εθισμού, με σκοπό την επίτευξη συναίνεσης σχετικά με τις απαραίτητες βασικές δεξιότητες που πρέπει να καλύπτει η ιατρική εκπαίδευση.
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...
Global Smoking Rates on Decline Thanks to Demand-Reduction Measures
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
Οι γεύσεις διαδραματίζουν σημαντικό ρόλο στην πρόσληψη ηλεκτρονικού τσιγάρου μεταξύ των νεότερων πληθυσμών, σύμφωνα με μελέτη
Νέα ευρήματα που δημοσιεύθηκαν στο περιοδικό Tobacco Regulatory Science δείχνουν ότι τα αρωματισμένα ηλεκτρονικά τσιγάρα απευθύνονται ιδιαίτερα στους νέους και τους νέους ενήλικες.
Από τον πληθυσμό του δείγματος της μελέτης, το 99% των...
Smoke-free Implementation in Colombia: Monitoring, Outside Funding and Business Support
Objective: To analyze successful national smoke-free policy implementation in Colombia, a middle income country.
Materials and methods: Key informants at the national and local levels were interviewed and news sources and government...
Αποτελεσματικότητα Bank Matrix Bite: Ο ομιλητής στη διαδρομή ομιλίας προς την ανάκαμψη
Στις ψυχοκοινωνικές θεραπείες, η θέσπιση της σχέσης πελάτη-εργαζομένου είναι η θεραπεία. Δομημένο γύρω από την κλασική διατύπωση του Carl Rogers για τις «απαραίτητες και επαρκείς συνθήκες» για τη θεραπευτική πρόοδο, το κύτταρο στο Alcohol...
Evaluation Report on Drug Control for the Sixth Evaluation Round of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM)
The Evaluation Report on Drug Control (2014) for the Sixth Evaluation Round of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) measures the progress of actions taken by the 34 OAS (Organization of American States) member states to address the...
Reviewing England's Drug Misuse Treatment System
Public Health England’s recently published review reveals that the country’s drug misuse treatment system is performing well. However, there are still several areas that call for improvements.
Amongst the report’s findings, notable are:
- ...
Δωρεάν πόρος για την αξιολόγηση των παρεμβάσεων πρόληψης και θεραπείας φαρμάκων
Η Τράπεζα Μέσων Αξιολόγησης (ΕΤΕπ) είναι μια ηλεκτρονική βάση δεδομένων ελεύθερα διαθέσιμων πόρων για την αξιολόγηση προγραμμάτων και πρωτοβουλιών πρόληψης και θεραπείας των ναρκωτικών. Μπορείτε να αναζητήσετε το αρχείο ανά είδος παρέμβασης...
Parental Socioeconomic Status and Teenage Smoking Rates: What's the Link?
In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?
This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at their...
ESPAD Report 2015
The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.
The latest...
Revealed: The Global Cost of Smoking
Smoking and its related harms cost the world more than $1 trillion and claim the lives of around 6 million people each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute.
$1 trillion...
The Multiple Health Effects of Marijuana Use
In its first report for almost 20 years, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), has found the use of marijuana seems to be particularly connected to:
- Breathing problems
- Mental health issues such as psychosis, social anxiety and...
