Prevention

Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations

Book

This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...

Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System

Book

Community engagement is often cited as a tool to improve the health of the community and its members. This guide will review evidence related to leveraging community engagement to support the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based...

Prevention Topics Page

Website

Drug prevention approaches range from those that target society as a whole (environmental and universal prevention) to interventions focusing on at-risk individuals (indicated prevention). The main challenges are in matching these different...

Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood

Book

3 March 2016

This guide, intended for parents, practitioners, and policymakers, begins with a list of 7 principles addressing the specific ways in which early interventions can have positive effects on development; these principles reflect findings on...

Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward

ISSUP Webinar

24 January 2023

ISSUP Malaysia would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar on Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward. The webinar is to inform and raise awareness on critical issues in the...

Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward

24 January 2023

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

ISSUP Malaysia would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar on Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward.

Time: 5PM Malaysia Time | 9AM UK Time | 10AM Czech Republic Time | 12PM Kenya Time

Register for the Webinar

Substance use prevention 'back to basics'- Reading list

Reading List

Earlier this month, Jeff Lee, senior consultant to ISSUP, delivered two webinars that reviewed what prevention of substance abuse entails. The webinars were intended to be a "back to basics” for anyone working in the prevention field that...

Targeting Sleep Behaviors to Prevent Youth Substance Use, Suicide & Violence: Free Webinar

30 November 2022

Saint Augustine/Florida

United States

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Guidelines and Recommendations for School-based Prevention

Book

Over the past 25 years, there has been a significant focus on the need to address young people’s health and behaviour as a major and necessary part of the school curriculum. The objectives for prevention have to include effective policies...

Prevention of problematic alcohol use in leisure contexts of the youth population

ISSUP Webinar

17 November 2022

On the occasion of World No Alcohol Day, ISSUP Chile invites you to participate in a webinar to share visions, strategies or opportunities to promote low-risk alcohol consumption in nighttime recreational spaces in our youngest population.