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From harm to hope: A ten year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives

Book

6 December 2021

Here you can read the UK governments 10-year plan to reduce illegal drug use. The 10-year plan is also the formal, substantive response to the Independent Reviews of Drugs led by Dame Carol Black and accepts all of her key recommendations...

United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Reconvened Sixty-fourth Session

9 December 2021

Online

The reconvened sixty-fourth session will take place 9-10 December 2021.

Minimum unit pricing evidence from Scotland and Wales

14 January 2022

Online

United Kingdom

Is minimum unit pricing working? Examining the evidence from Scotland and Wales

About this event

Professor Eileen Kaner, Newcastle University, will share with us the findings of the Impact of minimum unit pricing on alcohol purchases in Scotland and Wales study, as published in The Lancet.

Public expenditure on supply reduction policies

Book

1 June 2017

Supply reduction is often the main approach used for addressing the illicit drug problem. Evaluating drug policy is an integral part of a cost-efficient approach to tackle illicit drugs. This report takes a first step towards a systematic...

Costs and Unintended consequences of drug policy

Book

1 November 2017

Evaluation is an integral part of a good governance approach to public policy. This principle applies equally to the component of drug policy designed to counter the availability of and access to illicit drugs. Estimation or full costing of...

Addiction treatment in India: Legal, ethical and professional concerns reported in the media

Scientific article

4 October 2021

This study is a content analysis of newspaper reports from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019 looking into legal, ethical and professional concerns regarding the treatment of substance use disorders in India.

Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Health approach

Book

13 August 2021

The Public Health Agency of Canada developed The Blueprint for Action: Preventing substance-related harms among youth through a Comprehensive School Approach with a policy paper. These new resources for preventing substance-related harms...

Lisbon Addictions 2022

23 November 2022

Lisbon

Portugal

The next European Conference on

14th European Public Health Conference 2021 Public health futures in a changing world

10 November 2021

online

The European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the European Public health Conference (EPH) are pleased to invite you to the 14th EPH conference.

The conference will address the following themes

Tobacco Control in Africa

News

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one in five African adolescents use tobacco and predict a doubling of deaths related to tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries between 2002 and 2030. Here, you can find out more...