Prevention

Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use. 

EDPQS Toolkit 1: Funding & Decision-Making

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The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural...

SPR 2020 Call for Papers Now Open!

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This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution...

Call for Abstracts - NIDA International SPR Poster Session

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The International Program and the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will host the 13th Annual NIDA International SPR Poster Session at the SPR 28th Annual Meeting in...

SPYM Newsletter

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The latest SPYM newsletter provides an account of the visit from Deputy Secretaries and Directors, Government of India. It also discusses the ways art can be used therapeutically with children, new teacher training programmes and outreach...

Public Health 2020

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Winnipeg
Canada

Public Health 2020 is the national conference where public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics, students and trainees come together to strengthen efforts to improve health and well-being, to share the latest research and information, to promote best practices and to advocate for public health issues and policies grounded in research.

Scholars International Conference on STD, HIV and AIDS Research

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Tokyo
Japan

The Scholars International Conference on STD, HIV and AIDS Research will be held on November 18-19, 2019 in Tokyo Japan.

Over 100 specialists in STD from all over the world are expected to come together to discuss on exploring challenges to the control and prevention of STD/AIDS.

Webinar: Alcohol, MDMA and Cannabis Use: Impact on the Adolescent Brain

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Webinar

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This webinar is for teachers, school staff, parents and others who are interested in understanding the effect of drugs on the adolescent brain. It will explore the development of adolescent brain and how this process is interrupted by the use of alcohol, MDMA and cannabis.