Practice

Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence

Book

10 May 2010

This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were: To explore...

Supporting families affected by substance use and domestic violence

Validity and Reliability of the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in University Students

Scientific article

15 January 2016

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...

Real Voices in Volunteering

Book

1 January 2012

Adfam published this volunteering toolkit to provide all the information, policy, law and resources needed on volunteering, families and substance use. Volunteers have always played an essential role in the family support and substance use...

Webinar: Promising and Established Practices for Family Caregiver Engagement

28 February 2017

Webinar

Canada

Date & Time:

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)

Join the first webinar in the Family Caregiver Community of Interest Series: "Breaking Barriers: Family Navigation Program."

Webinar: Enhancing Residential Addiction Treatment Services

3 February 2017

Webinar

Canada

Date & Time:

Fri, 3 February 2017

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST

Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016

Scientific article

3 February 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...

New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers

News

This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free. Service providers can now...

Webinar "Change is in the Air: Taking Initiative Towards a Tobacco-Free Texas"

7 February 2017

Webinar

United States

Webinar date and time:

Tue, Feb 7, 2017: 2 pm EST

Free Resource for Evaluating Drug Prevention and Treatment Interventions

News

The Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB) is an online database of freely available resources for evaluating drug prevention and treatment programmes and initiatives. You can search the archive by type of intervention (treatment or prevention)...

10th European Public Health Conference

1 November 2017

Stockholm

Sweden

The European Public Health Conference aims to contribute to the improvement of public health in Europe by offering a means for exchanging information and a platform for debate to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of public health and health services research as well as public health training and education in Europe.