Practice

HIV and people who use drugs: Factsheet

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

The 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy has bold and critical new targets on realizing human rights, reducing stigma, discrimination and violence and removing harmful punitive laws as a pathway to ending inequalities and ultimately ending AIDS...

Key considerations to integrate HIV and mental health interventions

Book

22 April 2022

A new publication by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV and mental health services and other interventions, including linkages to social protection services, for people living with...

Responding to drug-related infectious diseases: EMCDDA mini guide

Guide

Sharing drug injecting equipment increases the risk of transmitting and acquiring blood-borne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. While hepatitis C is the most prevalent blood-borne viral infection among people who inject drugs...

Disruptions to U.S. local public health’s role in population-based substance use prevention and response during COVID-19

Scientific article

7 November 2022

Background COVID-19 dramatically limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not...

Brief counselling by a doctor can reduce drinking

Scientific article

A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that alcohol-targeted brief interventions (short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour) delivered in doctors’ offices and...

United Nations Synthetic Drug Toolkit

Guide

The United Nations Synthetic Drug Toolkit supports the international community in implementing comprehensive response measures to address the synthetic drug problem. The toolkit was developed in response to Commission on Narcotic Drugs...

Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations

Book

This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...

Prevention Topics Page

Website

Drug prevention approaches range from those that target society as a whole (environmental and universal prevention) to interventions focusing on at-risk individuals (indicated prevention). The main challenges are in matching these different...

Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood

Book

3 March 2016

This guide, intended for parents, practitioners, and policymakers, begins with a list of 7 principles addressing the specific ways in which early interventions can have positive effects on development; these principles reflect findings on...

European Drugs Winter School 2023

13 February 2023

Online

Illicit drugs in Europe: demand, supply and public policies

Special Focus on Displaced Populations and Drug Related Issues

Our two week online Winter School (13th to 24th of February 2023) prepares professionals and students to meet the complex policy challenges that face Europe and the World in the field of drugs.