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Webinar: Use of the Electronic Medical Record in Prevention Research

15 June 2017

Webinar

United States

Medicine: Mind the Gap is a webinar series that explores research design, measurement, intervention, data analysis, and other methods of interest for prevention science.

Technical Consultation on Updating the Prevention Standards

News

Gilberto Gerra, Chief of the Drug Prevention and Health Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opens the meeting on the "Technical consultation on updating the prevention standards" at UNODC headquarters in Vienna...

ISSUP at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting

News

Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...

How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?

Scientific article

1 June 2017

The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction. New research presented...

Parental Absence in Early Childhood and Onset of Smoking and Alcohol Consumption before Adolescence

Scientific article

10 October 2016

Abstract Background: Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in...

5th Annual NFAR Technology Summit: Implementing Technology to Improve SUD Services

26 July 2017

Reno

United States

The goal of the 2017 NFAR (National Frontier & Rural) Technology Summit is for attendees to gain usable skills and knowledge related to how technology can expand and enhance

Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Brief Interventions for Heavy Drinking in Primary Health Care across Europe

Scientific article

24 August 2016

Background Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due to...

Gender-Specific Predictors of At-Risk Adolescents’ Hazardous Alcohol Use

Scientific article

15 May 2017

Abstract Background Previous research has found strong associations between adolescents’ hazardous alcohol use and their perception of peer behavior, as well as own spending money and a range of antisocial behaviors. However, there is...

State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016

Scientific article

12 May 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and treatment...

Current and Binge Drinking Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2015

Scientific article

12 May 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United States...