substance use

Webinar: How Do Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Affect Young People?

Video and audio recordings

This webinar will present an update on research into co-occurring mental and substance use disorders among young people in Australia. It will ask: how many young people experience co-occurring mental and substance use disorders? What is the...

A Qualitative Study of Drivers of Psychoactive Substance Use among Mekelle University Students, Northern Ethiopia

Scientific article

4 March 2019

Abstract Background Psychoactive substance (PS) use is a public health concern among University students. Understanding the factors underlay the use helps to underpin effective preventive interventions. However, there is dearth of...

Invitation to Conduct Research

News

The Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Drug and Alcohol Task Force, in conjunction with Southside Partnership and Dublin Rathdown Community Addiction Team, invites submissions from suitably qualified parties to conduct a research project to commence...

Addiction 101

Website

The Recovery Research Institute have developed a new website that aims to answer the most common questions asked about addiction. Addiction 101 addresses questions such as: What is the prevalence and cause of addiction? What does addiction...

New Resource: Time to Act!

Book

1 March 2019

Time to Act! outlines pragmatic and concrete actions, following the UN General Assembly Special Session 2016 (UNGASS 2016), for prevention of non-medical use of controlled substances, treatment of drug use disorders, social protection and...

Webinar: Compassionate Pragmatism an Integrative Approach to Treating Problematic Substance Use

Video and audio recordings

27 February 2019

Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D., Founder and Director The Center for Optimal Living will take us through a harm reduction approach which has compassion at its centre. This webinar looks at harm reduction across the range of risk behaviours...

The Substance Use Intervention Team: A Preliminary Analysis of a Population-level Strategy to Address the Opioid Crisis at an Academic Health Center

Scientific article

15 March 2019

Objective: In 2017, an academic health center in Chicago launched the multidisciplinary Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) to address opioid misuse across 18 inpatient units and in a new outpatient addiction medicine clinic. This report...

Drugs: North West Inaugural Conference

24 June 2019

Manchester

United Kingdom

Drugs: North West is a newly-formed network of researchers from across North West England. The network was established to foster multi-disciplinary collaborations between researchers across the region and to provide a platform to showcase the innovative work of its members.

Cross-Party Group on Alcohol and Drugs Next Meeting to Focus on ‘Street Valium’

26 February 2019

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The Cross Party Group on Alcohol and Drugs will host their Annual General Meeting in the Scottish Parliament on the 26th of February 2019.

Xchange Prevention Registry

Website

Xchange is an online registry of evidence-based prevention programmes. In its first phase, the registry will make available manualised interventions that European evaluation studies show have beneficial outcomes relating to substance use...