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Introdotta dalla Risoluzione 42/112 dell'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite del dicembre 1987 e osservata annualmente dal 1988, oggi ricorre la 29a Giornata Internazionale contro l'Abuso e il Traffico Illecito di Droga.
Cos'è?
...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...
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...
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...
Do high-risk pupils benefit more so from psychological interventions than standard drug education initiatives?
Much research suggests there are, in fact, a number of significantly positive effects associated with the former.
What is...
The World Health Organization has released a series of briefings on violence prevention. Of particular interest is Chapter 3: Preventing Violence by Reducing Availability and Harmful Use of Alcohol.
‘Harmful use of alcohol is a major...
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...
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.
...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...
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...
Contesto: L'assenza dei genitori, dovuta alla morte o alla separazione da un genitore, è stata associata al fumo e al consumo di alcol nell'adolescenza e nell'età adulta. Lo scopo di questo studio era quello di indagare se l...
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...
Ricerche precedenti hanno trovato forti associazioni tra l'uso pericoloso di alcol da parte degli adolescenti e la loro percezione del comportamento dei coetanei, così come i propri soldi da spendere e una serie di...
Cosa si sa già di questo argomento?
Gli Stati Uniti hanno registrato un forte aumento dell'incidenza del virus dell'epatite C (HCV) che può essere attribuito all'uso di droghe per iniezione. Alcuni stati hanno utilizzato...
Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United...
Il tabacco è la prima causa di morte prevenibile in tutto il mondo. Una Cochraine Review pubblicata di recente ha rilevato che confezioni di tabacco standardizzate o semplici potrebbero rendere i prodotti del tabacco meno attraenti e, a...
Una nuova ricerca pubblicata su The British Medical Journal sostiene la necessità di aumentare le tasse sui prodotti del tabacco nell'Asia meridionale, suggerendo che così facendo si potrebbe ridurre il consumo di almeno 1/3 e, a sua volta...
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...
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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