Prevention

Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...

Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work. It looks to promote sport and...

Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...

This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs. It asks which interventions are effective for...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) presents its Principles of Adolescent Drug Addiction Treatment. The document focuses exclusively on the realities of substance use among youth (12 to 17 years). Illegal substances, prescription...

Now in its 20th year of publication, the UNODC World Drug Report for 2017 is now available. It consists of 5 accessible booklets: Booklet 1 provides a summary of the subsequent 4 booklets. It also discusses the policy implications of the...

This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the...

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...