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Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions

Book

29 November 2018

This fact sheet describes the best practices that community-based behavioural health, and probation and parole agencies can implement to ensure that reentry for people who have opioid addictions is safe and successful.

Voluntary Researchers Wanted - Mentor UK

News

Mentor UK is looking for volunteers to help maintain up-to-date knowledge of alcohol and drug prevention and education in community, family and school settings. The role will involve role researching and writing briefs that will contribute...

Drug Trends and Drug Awareness Training

13 June 2019

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Update your drug awareness knowledge with information on current trends in drug use including NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) with this credible and informative course. We discuss the most commonly used drugs and explore ways of working with people.

Course aims

This course aims to equip delegates with confidence in knowledge in drug trends, and practical tips when working with people who take drugs.

31st International Conference on Cancer Research and Therapy

9 September 2019

Zurich

Switzerland

31st International Conference on Cancer Research and therapy

September 09-10,2019 Zurich, Switzerland

Theme: Battle together for a cancer-free world

Evaluating Early Help: A Guide to Evaluation of Complex Local Early Help Systems

Book

This guide seeks to improve the evaluation of early help by setting out some principles that could help places to make progress in evaluating local services.

STAD in Europe Manual

Book

A manual for communities preventing alcohol-related harm.

South East Asian Fellowship Program on Drug Policy 2019

News

Release, the UK’s centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law, is proud to invite applications to the 2019 South East Asian Fellowship Program on Drug Policy. Fellows will be hosted at Release in London, UK.

Webinar: Supporting Frontline Workers with Key Information and Resources about Ice

Video and audio recordings

7 September 2018

This webinar provides information about: How crystal methamphetamine affects people and communities Worker safety and preventing, managing and recovering from ice-related critical incidents The impacts of using ice with alcohol and other...

Fifth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference

4 September 2019

Prato

Fifth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference will be held from the 4th to the 6th September 2019 at the Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy, near Florence.

The theme of the event is Rethinking ‘Change’: New Theories, New Topics, New Questions, New Methods.

Alcohol and Older People

Book

1 March 2019

The Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish Society of Nursing and IOGT-NTO have come together to produce a report on the elderly’s increased sensitivity to the effects of alcohol which, may increase the risk of disease and accidents, even at relatively low consumption levels.