Prevention

Testing a culturally adapted youth substance use prevention program in a Mexican border city: Mantente REAL

Scientific article

6 September 2021

Background: This article reports on a test of a youth substance use prevention program conducted in Nogales-Sonora, a Mexican city on the US border. Objective: The study tested the efficacy of a version of the keepin’ it REAL curriculum for...

Testing a culturally adapted youth substance use prevention program in a Mexican border city: Mantente REAL.

ICAP- Prevention Certified: My Journey

News

10 July 2024

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...

ICAP- Prevention Certificate- Caroline Kahiu

Students’ Experience with the Online Course in Prevention Science in Two Distinct University Settings: A Pilot Study

Scientific article

1 March 2024

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 Participated in the UNODC Consultation Meeting in Vienna for "Friends in Focus": Shaping the Future of Peer-to-Peer Drug Prevention

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.

Spanish Project of Best Practice Portal in Drug Demand Reduction and Behavioural Addictions

Scientific article

26 April 2024

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...

The Process of the Implementation of Quality Standards in Drug Prevention in Croatia: A Case Study

Scientific article

15 April 2024

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...

National Implementation of Quality Standards in Prevention and Treatment Services for Substance Use/ Addictions – A Case Study of Cyprus

Scientific article

31 March 2024

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...

International Diploma in Interventions for Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery of Substance Use Disorders

11 April 2024

Temuco

Chile

Jimena Kalawski, in partnership with The Universidad Católica De Temuco, will present a lecture on the International Diploma in Interventions for Prevention,

Implementing SPORT Alcohol & Cannabis PPW-SBIRT: Free Webinar

14 March 2024

SAINT AUGUSTINE

United States

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Handbook on Youth Participation in Drug Prevention Work

Booklet

1 January 2021

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...