In May 2024, the National Authority for the Campaign hosted the first-ever National Drug Use Prevention Week. I had the privilege of co-hosting the event, where I shared my prevention story. Here's how it all began. A few years ago, NACADA...
BACKGROUND: Online learning has the potential to increase accessibility to high quality and cost-effective resources in prevention of risk behaviors. The aim of this pilot study was to assess the experience of university students with the...
ISSUP staff engaged at the 3rd Informal Technical Consultation for the "Friends in Focus" program, hosted by UNODC in Vienna from June 11th to 13th. Our team, including Deputy Chief Executive, Livia Edegger, and Scientific Support Coordinator, Rasha Abi Hana, collaborated with global experts and youth to shape this innovative peer-to-peer prevention initiative.
INTRODUCTION: In Spain, the offer of prevention programmes is very varied and structured, but today the challenge remains how to put evidence into practice. European Commission define a best practice as “a relevant policy or intervention...
INTRODUCTION: Prevention science and quality standards of drug prevention in the EU and in the world have developed in recent decades. Progress has been made in quality development in Croatia, but the experience of the process of improving...
INTRODUCTION: The Cyprus National Addictions Authority (NAAC) is the main coordinating body for all matters related to licit and illicit substances as well as pathological gambling in Cyprus and it is responsible, inter alia, for the...
Jimena Kalawski, in partnership with The Universidad Católica De Temuco, will present a lecture on the International Diploma in Interventions for Prevention,
The goal of the present handbook is to offer encouragement, examples, rationales and concrete advice on how to increase youth participation in substance use prevention, harnessing the insights of young people on the most important target...