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Substance Use Monitoring and Surveillance: Challenges faced by LMICs

Opinion piece, commentary

24 January 2025

Substance use surveillance has emerged as a crucial public health strategy across Africa, particularly in light of the alarming rise in substance use among adolescents (1). This trend poses significant health risks that require a...

DIMS Annual Report 2022

Report

The DIMS annual report 2022 covers the concentrations, adulterations, and other relevant information produced by DIMS in the past year, and in doing so forms a topical image of the Dutch drug market. Spread out over all Dutch provinces, the...

Índice de prevención: instrumento de monitoreo sistémico de prevención

Este lunes 11 de abril, a las 20:00 hrs. se realizará la reunión académica del Grupo de Trabajo de Adicciones de Sonepsyn, junto a ISSUP-Chile.

Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems

News

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...

2020 NCCRED Symposium: Innovations in therapeutic practice for methamphetamine use disorder

20 November 2020

Online

Having held our inaugural symposium last year as part of APSAD in Hobart, NCCRED will host its second symposium on Friday 20th November from 11am-3pm.

NCCRED’s 2020 symposium, in line with the Centre’s aims, is a vital opportunity for the AoD sector to advance its collective response to emerging drugs:

EMCDDA 25 Years of Monitoring

Guide

In 2020, the EMCDDA celebrates 25 years of monitoring the drug situation in Europe.

National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program

Book

20 February 2019

Wastewater analysis is widely applied internationally as a tool to measure and interpret drug use within national populations, with the current national program in Australia representing world best practice. The National Wastewater Drug...

Drug-Related Homicide in Europe: A First Review of the Data and Literature

Book

1 May 2018

EMCDDA, Lisbon, May 2018 Series type: EMCDDA Papers Summary Homicide is a violent act that generates high social costs. In particular, drug-related homicide (DRH) has the potential to act as an indicator of wider drug-related crime...