Prevention

Strategy for Preventing Opioid Use Disorder in Communities

Book
Key Issues Substance use often begins in adolescence. Any substance use in adolescence can have detrimental effects on the developing brain. Effects of substance use/misuse accumulate over time increasing societal costs and public health...

Using Adolescent Development to Inform Prevention Practice

Video and audio recordings
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Participants will review major social and biological factors of adolescent development and implications for ways to approach substance use prevention/intervention. Objectives Include: - Describe prevalence rates for adolescent substance use...

Schools and drugs: health and social responses

Guide
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A new handy mini guide by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) on evidence-based policymaking for prevention of drug use in schools and educational settings.
EMCDDA