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Building Strength and Resilience during the COVID 19 Pandemic A Focus on Parents with Substance Use

Video and audio recordings

Hendree Jones, Professor UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Executive Director UNC Horizons presents on work developed in summer 2020 regarding helping parents cope.

Addressing Compassion Fatigue and Promoting Self Care Strategies for Substance Use Service Professionals

Video and audio recordings

Moving Beyond 'People First' Language- A Glossary of Contested Terms in Substance Use

Book

Language is powerful in shaping view and opinions about groups of people. By changing the way we discuss substance use issues, we can start to reverse harmful stereotypes about addiction. Drug use is heavily stigmastised. People who use...

WHO Launches Year-long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco

News

The World Health Organisation has launched a year long campaign to help people quit their tobacco use. As part of the campaign “Commit to Quit" the WHO have announced a new Quit Challenge on WhatsApp and have published “More than 100...

UN Commission Reclassifies Cannabis

News

As part of the 63rd CND session, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took a number of decisions leading to changes in the way cannabis is internationally regulated. One of the key decisions included its reclassification out of the...

High Risk Substance Use and Overdose Among Youth Conference

25 January 2021

Online

The rising numbers of young people with high-risk substance use, especially suffering from overdose, is alarming. Adolescence and young adulthood (under the age of 25) is the period of highest incidence and greatest impact of mental health and substance use disorders, yet there are no youth-specific services in place.

Nudge Theory and Alcohol Policy: How Nudge Might Shape Drinking

Book

Summary Nudge theory aims to understand human decision making in order to optimise the outcomes from choices for decision makers. The theory has become increasingly popular amongst public health policymakers in recent years The use of nudge...

Global Drug Survey 2021

News

The Global Drug Survey uses an anonymous online survey to conduct the world’s biggest drug survey. The annual GDS survey runs from the middle of November each year for approximately 6 weeks. GDS partners with global media giants to act as...

Who Cares if They Die? They're Only Junkies.

14 December 2020

Online

United Kingdom

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Domestic Violence, Substance Misuse and Mental Ill-health: The Toxic Trio

Scientific article

14 November 2020

Within research examining adverse childhood experiences, the toxic trio describes the risk of child abuse and neglect stemming from a child’s exposure to domestic violence, parental mental health issues and/or learning disability, and...