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Applying interventions designed to reduce and manage the symptoms of substance use disorders.
Empowering Students for Just Societies: A Handbook for Primary School Teachers
Foreword
Education has transformative power. It is broadly recognized that education plays a pivotal role in shaping the values of future generations and creating inclusive, peaceful, just and sustainable societies. To ensure that the...
SPR Early Career Prevention Scientists Training Programme Call for Applications
Programme Description: The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) is launching a new 2-year programme to support early-career prevention scientists with a focus on increasing underrepresented populations in prevention science research...
Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell D1: How Organisational Context Affects Screening and Brief Intervention
HOW ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT AFFECTS SCREENING AND BRIEF INTERVENTION
Selection and exploration of key studies starts with a review mapping influences which might obstruct or promote implementation efforts, then highlights a striking...
Differences in Availability and Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Residential Treatment Settings in the United States
Opioid use and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) continues to be a significant public health concern in the United States.
Several medications for OUD (MOUDs) are now considered by the medical community to be the criterion standard in OUD...
FDA Tobacco Education Posters (English and Spanish)
Free youth smoking prevention posters from FDA Tobacco for order or download in English or Spanish.
کنفرانس سالانه ICUDDR 2020: فراخوان پیشنهاد
کنسرسیوم بین المللی دانشگاه ها برای کاهش تقاضای مواد مخدر (ICUDDR) کنفرانس سالانه خود را در هتل Sukosol در بانکوک تایلند، جولای 13-15، 2020 برگزار می کند. ثبت نام کنفرانس در تاریخ 1 مارس آغاز خواهد شد.
این مرکز از بهبود سریع در مهارت ها...
Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell C1: Mandate - or Let Clinicians and Patients Decide When to Screen and Advise for Risky Drinking?
This week we focus on one section of the commentary on the matrix cell released last week which explored management’s influence on screening/brief intervention for risky drinking. A major issue facing management is whether to strongly...
Heavy Cannabis Use, Dependence and the Brain
Although cannabis use disorder (CUD) is one of the most common substance use disorders (SUDs), the impact of CUD on the brain remains unclear and understudied.
In a recent article, published in Addiction journal, researchers from the...
وبینار: کن سی وینترز در رشد مغز نوجوانان
چگونه مصرف مواد بر مغز در حال توسعه تاثیر می گذارد؟ شواهد برای پیشگیری و درمان مصرف مواد چه پیامدهایی دارد؟ اولین روز متخصص ما وبینار به بررسی مسائل متعددی در تقاطع رشد مغز نوجوان و مصرف الکل و مواد مخدر.
کن سی وینترز، دکترا دانشمند ارشد...
مراقبت آگاهانه از الکل و سایر مواد مخدر
تروما، به ویژه در دوران کودکی، می تواند بر روش رشد مغز ما تاثیر منفی بگذارد.
تجربه های نامطلوب دوران کودکی (ACEs) رویدادهایی بالقوه آسیب زا هستند که قبل از رسیدن به سن 18 سالگی تجربه می شوند، از جمله اما نه محدود به سوء استفاده یا غفلت...
Is Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Effective for Addressing Substance Use among Adolescents?
Nicotine, alcohol and marijuana are the most widely used substances among adolescents. These substances, however, can have serious negative consequences for brain development, making substance use among adolescents a major public health...
دعوت به مناقصه: کم و بدون نوشیدنی الکل
تغییر الکل بریتانیا در حال راه اندازی یک بررسی ادبیات و سیاست در مورد نوشیدنی های کم الکل و بدون الکل است.
کم الکل و نوشیدنی های بدون الکل به نظر می رسد به دست آوردن سهم بازار، توجه در صنعت نوشیدنی، آگاهی عمومی و محبوبیت، و تمرکز سیاسی...
What Has Happened Since – 2020 Report
The Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network (NordAN) was established in September 2000 as a network of non-governmental, voluntary organisations. Their aim is to reduce the consumption of alcohol and other drugs and support restrictive...
Smoking Greatly Increases Risk of Complications after Surgery
A joint study conducted by the World Health Organization and the University of Newcastle in Australia has found that people who quit smoking tobacco at least four weeks before they undergo surgery have a lower risk of complication and show...
Should Cigarette Pack Sizes be Capped?
In an attempt to prevent harmful tobacco use, countries have introduced policies such as the minimum number of cigarettes. This increases the cost of buying a packet of tobacco and it is hoped it will deter young people from buying.
In...
CCSA Alcohol Resources
Healthcare and allied health professionals — including family physicians, nurses, addiction specialists, psychologists and social workers — use alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) to help individuals...
Handbook on Quality Standards for Interventions Aimed at Drug Experienced Young People in Contact with Criminal Justice Systems
Executive Summary
As one of the objectives of the European Health Programme project “Exchanging Prevention practices on Polydrug use among youth in Criminal justice systems” (EPPIC), the present handbook of quality standards was produced...
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons: A Planning and Implementation Toolkit
People who have been incarcerated are approximately 100 times more likely to die by overdose in the first two weeks after their release than the general public. Despite high rates of opioid use disorder among justice-involved individuals...
پر کردن شکاف در NCDs: از وعده های جهانی تا پیشرفت محلی
بیماری های غیر مخابراتی به عنوان بزرگترین قاتل و علت معلولیت در جهان شناخته می شوند و بحران بهداشت جهانی را ایجاد می کنند که نیاز به پاسخ فوری سیاست دارد. این امر از سوی رهبران جهان در سه نشست سطح بالای سازمان ملل متحد در مورد ان سی دی ها...
Roadmap to a Smokefree 2030
In July 2019, the UK Government set out its ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030. Government guidelines say the next steps should have been announced by 6th January 2020, but it has yet to do so.
Several key charities, including...
