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First Licensed Female Drug Treatment & Rehabilitation Center in Bangladesh
On September 18th, 2016 Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) obtained the license for its first Female Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center from the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC). DAM’s Female Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center is...
Social Inequality and Marijuana Use
Are the poor smoking more? An article published recently in the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy sets out to answer just that. It explores the link between teenage marijuana use and income inequality in the national contexts...
Adieu untuk stereotip? Konsumsi Alkohol dan Tembakau di Prancis
Jika Anda diminta untuk memberikan daftar hal-hal yang paling kita kaitkan dengan identitas budaya Prancis, anggur dan rokok mungkin akan ditampilkan. Sebuah survei baru-baru ini, bagaimanapun, menunjukkan bahwa, seperti yang umumnya...
Drug Demand Reduction Education
India's Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment held a session on Recovery and Recovery Management. The session was attended by around 22 participants from 11 states across India including doctors, counsellors, psychologists and people...
Derecho a la salud y tabaquismo en las Américas
Una audiencia histórica. Por primera vez, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), en el marco del 157 Periodo de Sesiones, concedió una audiencia temática sobre tabaquismo ante...
Apa yang anak-anak ambil?
Hasilnya sudah masuk. Survei Tembakau, Alkohol, dan Obat-obatan Siswa Kanada 2014 - 15 menunjukkan bahwa, di satu sisi, tingkat merokok umumnya turun, sementara di sisi lain, eksperimen dengan obat sintetis dan resep meningkat di antara...
The Will to Stop: Explaining Smoking Habits
A new study carried out by researchers at the University of Stirling has discovered a link between self-control and lifelong smoking habits. It claims that children identified as having low levels of self-control by age eleven are more...
The TV Made Me Do It: Children and Alcohol Consumption
New research published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs supports evidence that alcohol adverts influence underage drinking. The authors suggest that the more exposure children receive to adverts for specific brands, the...
Marijuana on the Brain
According to new research smoking marijuana regularly distorts the brain’s natural risk and reward circuitry which, in turn, can affect people’s decision-making as well as their ability to maintain relationships. In this way, the study...
Music Videos Might Encourage Binge Drinking
A recent review carried out by researchers at the University of Nottingham's UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies suggests popular YouTube music videos that include aural and/or visual references to alcohol often glamourise consumption...
Higher Numbers Getting High
Marijuana use amongst adults in the United States is increasing. A study of over half-a-million people carried out between 2002 – 2014 and subsequently published in The Lancet suggests that this is because fewer perceive the drug to be...
Is Mass-Media Effective for Drug Prevention?
Mass-media can be a great means for sharing knowledge and information. A study recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) aimed to determine whether such channels are successful in reducing the intention to use, and the...
Laporan Kesehatan Australia 2016
Laporan Kesehatan dari Australian Institute of Health and Welfare mencakup berbagai masalah kesehatan, termasuk status kesehatan warga Australia, pengeluaran kesehatan, penyebab utama kesehatan yang buruk, faktor penentu kesehatan...
Low Self-Esteem Linked to Excessive Drinking Among Students
Student life and excessive drinking often go hand-in-hand. New research has found that it is students with low self-esteem that are more likely to indulge in unhealthy drinking behaviours than those with higher confidence levels. The...
Aplikasi Sadar Overdosis
Aplikasi Sadar Overdosis menawarkan saran praktis tentang tanda-tanda overdosis dan apa yang harus dilakukan jika tanda-tanda itu ada. Ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran di antara mereka yang mengalami penggunaan narkoba dan...
Vaping Ads Make Smoking Tobacco Seem Healthier
Up to 50% of children who try tobacco cigarettes for the first time are likely to become regular smokers within three years. At the same time, experimentation with e-cigarettes is increasing. It is now more common for 11- to 15-year-olds in...
Standar Internasional untuk Pengobatan Gangguan Penggunaan Narkoba
Gangguan penggunaan narkoba adalah masalah kesehatan global yang serius. Kantor PBB untuk Narkoba dan Kejahatan (UNODC) memperkirakan bahwa 246 juta orang, atau satu dari dua puluh 15 hingga 64 tahun, menggunakan obat-obatan terlarang pada...
Pelatihan UTC 1 dan 2 untuk Pelatih Nasional Tanzania SUD Professionals
ICCE melakukan pelatihan pertamanya di Dar es Salaam, Tanzania dari 22 Februari hingga 3 Maret 2016 di Kunduchi Beach Hotel. Pelatihan 9 hari direncanakan untuk memperkenalkan 15 peserta dari berbagai sektor profesional untuk ilmu kecanduan...
Membantu Anak Muda Menjalani Hidup Sehat
'Listen First' adalah inisiatif pencegahan narkoba yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran seputar mendengarkan anak-anak dan remaja sebagai langkah pertama untuk membantu mereka tumbuh sehat dan aman. Kampanye global ini menargetkan...
Internet dan Alkoholisme
Prevalensi pesta minuman keras tertinggi di antara orang berusia 18 hingga 24 tahun. Di Amerika Serikat sekitar 1.800 mahasiswa meninggal karena cedera terkait alkohol yang tidak disengaja setiap tahun. Mengingat pertumbuhan Internet dalam...