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EMCDDA Updates on Best Practice
A new European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Best Practice report will be published in early 2017. It will take an in-depth look at substance use prevention in Europe.
The report's stated aim is "not to rate...
Which European City Consumes the Most Cocaine?
A new study suggests that Londoners consume the most cocaine during the week. However, it was also found that, when weekends were taken into account, the Belgian city of Antwerp overtook the UK’s capital for cocaine consumption. The results...
Smoking in Films: Adolescents and Unregulated Exposure
In its latest Smoke-Free Movies Report, the World Health Organisation (WHO) advised governments that films featuring tobacco use ought to be classified for their adult content. Published in the journal Tobacco Control, a new study supports...
Alcohol Use Disorders: Resilience and Risk Behaviour
New research suggests that certain personality traits, such as having a lack of restraint or being impulsive, increase the likelihood of developing alcohol use disorders. On the flip side, the study found that people with high resilience...
Energy Drinks and Alcohol…Cocaine
A new study carried out by researchers at Purdue University, and subsequently published in the journal PLOS ONE, has found that mixing alcohol with energy drinks may affect the adolescent brain in much the same way as does taking cocaine...
Scottish Substance Use: The Numbers
The latest Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) provides a national overview of the prevalence of smoking, alcohol consumption and drug use in 2015, as well as looks at trends over time. It assesses risk...
Contingency Management and Drug Disorders
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) defines contingency management as “a general behavioural intervention technique used in the treatment of drug dependence … designed to weaken drug use and strengthen...
د والدینو د ډولونو او د الکولو استعمال
د الکولو استعمال د ماشومانو او ځوانانو په منځ کې عام دی د دې سره سره چې د خطر - چلند دا ځانګړی شکل د سړی په روانی او ټولنیز پرمختګ باندې منفی اغیز کولی شی. یوه تازه لیکنه چې د نشه یی توکو په ژورنال کې چاپ شوې ده: زده کړه ، مخنیوی او پالیسی...
Alcohol Abuse Interventions in Primary Care Settings
A recent review of studies focusing on excessive drinkers identified and counselled in primary care settings has found that, when combined with screenings and assessments, brief, regular intervention sessions lead to greater reductions in...
ماریونا او زوکړه: اغیزې څه دی؟
د امریکا څلور ایالتونه په اوس وخت کې د آر تفریحی ماریخوانا کارولو ته اجازه ورکوی او څلورویشت طبی ماریونا 
ته اجازه ورکوی. که څه هم، د امېدنی په وخت کې د سګرټ څکول یا مصرف په صورت کې د انسان د امېدرانو د ودې په اړه د نشه یی توکو د اغېز د...
Adolescence, Alcoholism and Interventions
Substance abuse entails a whole host of social, physical and mental health problems. A recent overview published in the Journal of Adolescent Health evaluates the effectiveness of interventions focused on smoking, alcohol or combined drug...
USA and Europe: Drug Use Compared
This month saw the release of the findings from the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). The publication shows the country-by-country results for the use of various legal and illegal drugs. Thirty-five European...
Are Drinking Cultures in the West Changing?
Levels of alcohol consumption have generally decreased in the West over the last ten years. A series of papers published in a recent special issue of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy focuses on this topic of drinking cultures...
Social Inequality and Marijuana Use
Are the poor smoking more? An article published recently in the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy sets out to answer just that. It explores the link between teenage marijuana use and income inequality in the national contexts...
What Are Kids Taking?
The results are in. The 2014 – 15 Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs Survey shows that, on the one hand, smoking rates are generally down, while on the other, experimentation with synthetic and prescription drugs is increasing...
یوه تازه کتنه چې د ناتیګهم د انګلستان Is Mass-Media Effective for Drug Prevention?
Mass-media can be a great means for sharing knowledge and information. A study recently published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) aimed to determine whether such channels are successful in reducing the intention to use, and the...
د اعلانونو جوړول د تمباکو څکول صحی ښکاری
تر ۵۰٪ پورې هغه ماشومان چې د لومړی ځل لپاره د تنباکو سګریټ هڅه کوی ، په دریو کلونو کې به په منظم ډول سګرټ څکوونکی شی. په ورته وخت کې، د ای- سګریټو په اړه تجربه مخ په زیاتیدو ده. دا اوس په انګلستان کې د ۱۱ - ۱۵ کلنو ماشومانو لپاره ډیر عام دی...
د مخدره توکو د استعمال اختلالاتو درملنې لپاره نړیوال معیارونه
د مخدره توکو کارول یوه جدی نړیواله ستونزه ده. د ملګرو ملتونو د نشه یی توکو او جرمونو اداره (یو این او ډی سی) اټکل کوی چې په ۲۰۱۳ کال کې ۲۴۶ میلیونه کسانو، چې عمرونه یې له ۱۵ څخه تر ۶۴ کلونو پورې دی، یو یې غیر قانونی مخدره توکی کارولی دی. د...
The Internet and Alcoholism
The prevalence of binge drinking is highest amongst 18- to 24-year-olds. In the United States around 1,800 college students die from unintentional alcohol-related injuries each year. Given the growth of the Internet in the last twenty years...