General guidelines on gender-based labour violence for workplaces in Mexico
Liaison and Partnership Office in Mexico of...
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The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM) in Scotland
The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM, also known as ‘Planet Youth’) is a community-based approach aiming to prevent young people’s substance use through reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors.
A new team, based in Dundee...
Contribution of Sport and Sport-based Interventions to Substance Use Prevention
Building on the UNODC Global Initiative on Youth Crime Prevention through Sport and its Line Up Live Up programme, the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, and relevant research on the contribution of sport to healthy...
Civil Society & COVID-19 - Responses to the Pandemic
Side event during the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) organized jointly by the UNODC Civil Society Unit and VNGOC.
Drug Experienced Young People in Contact with the Criminal Justice System.
The journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy has published a special edition focussing on Drug experienced young people in contact with the Criminal Justice System.
The collection of papers examines young peoples' experiences of...
Society for the Study of Addiction Launches Early Career Research Network
The new SSA Early Career Research Network launches on 19 May, providing a series of (initially online) events designed to support PhD students and post-doc academics through the early stages of their addiction research careers.
Run by...
Natural Recovery by the Liver and Other Organs After Chronic Alcohol Use
ABSTRACT
Chronic, heavy alcohol consumption disrupts normal organ function and causes structural damage in virtually every tissue of the body. Current diagnostic terminology states that a person who drinks alcohol excessively has alcohol...
Ring us, FICT: "Well the delegation to anti-drug policies to Minister Dadone. Start collaborative work starting from the centrality of the person and not of the substance"
Luciano Squillaci, FICT President: "We express satisfaction for several reasons: because the delegation to anti-drug policies has finally been assigned after years of emptiness, because it has been assigned to a Ministry and because it is a...
The rapidly changing composition of the global street drug supply and Its effects on high-risk groups for COVID-19
The majority of street drugs, in some cases more than ninety-five percent, now have multiple toxic adulterants. This research review brings to the attention of public health officials, addiction medicine specialists, treatment officials, therapists, and the general public the alarming increase of dangerous toxic adulterants being added to street drugs and their potentially lethal synergistic effects.
Who is an Addiction Professional?
ISSUP Kenya are pleased to present their Webinar on 'Who is an Addiction Professional?'
Eight guiding principles of the digital transformation of the health sector. A call to pan-American action
Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/53730/OPSEIHIS210004_spa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
The digitization of health services represents important cultural changes for both health personnel and the general population...
Brasil participa da 64ª Sessão da Comissão de Narcóticos e Drogas (CND) que aconteceu em Viena
Aconteceu em Viena, Áustria, de 12 a 16 de abril de 2021, a 64ª Sessão da Comissão de Narcóticos e Drogas (CND) das Nações Unidas.
A CND se reúne anualmente e é o principal órgão de formulação de políticas de drogas no sistema das Nações...
KYDA POSTER PRESENTATION IN UAPC20
KYDA presented a poster on family therapy interventions taking place at their centre during the second Uganda Alcohol Policy Conference. Family therapy is a collection of therapeutic approaches that share a belief in family-level assessment...
Alcohol Consumption and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA Levels in HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients
Abstract
Background: The impact of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA levels on the evolution of chronic HCV infection-related liver damage is controversial. Heavy alcohol use is believed to have a deleterious impact on the course of HCV...
Best Practices for Integrating Medical Students Into Telehealth Visits
Abstract
Telehealth has become an increasingly important part of health care delivery, with a dramatic rise in telehealth visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth visits will continue to be a part of care delivery after the...
Rapid assessment tool for critical data gathering
This tool is designed for rapid assessment of health and health-related institutions and evaluates their capacity to...
What PAHO Does The Project for the Development and Implementation of a Proposal for the "Comprehensive Approach to Concurrency Between Substance Use Disorders and Other Mental and Behavioral Disorders, in Latin American countries"
What PAHO does
The project for the development and implementation of a proposal for the "Comprehensive Approach to Concurrency Between Substance Use Disorders and Other Mental and Behavioral Disorders, in Latin American countries", it is...
Virtual Twelve Step Meeting Attendance During the COVID-19 Period A Study of Members of Narcotics Anonymous
Abstract
Objectives:
Face-to-face meetings are key components of Twelve Step (TS) fellowships’ support of members’ abstinence. Home confinement during COVID-19 made this less feasible. Our objective was to ascertain whether a...