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SPR 2025 Call for Submissions Now Open!
SPR 2025 Call for Submissions Now Open! The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Annual Meeting, which will be held May 27–30, 2025, in Seattle, WA.
Full details here: https://spr.confex.com/spr...
Historical Trends in Cannabis Use Among U.S. Adults Ages 19–55, 2013–2021
The study analyzed national data from the U.S. to track trends in cannabis use from 2013 to 2021, focusing on changes in use among young and middle-aged adults. Researchers also looked at whether these trends varied by sociodemographic...
Alcohol and Other Substance Use Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2021
Abstract
Adolescence is a critical phase of development and is frequently a period of initiating and engaging in risky behaviors, including alcohol and other substance use. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated stressors might have affected...
کمیونٹی مشغولیت: مادہ کے استعمال کی روک تھام کے موثر اور منصفانہ نظام کا ایک لازمی جزو
کمیونٹی کی مصروفیت کو اکثر کمیونٹی اور اس کے ممبروں کی صحت کو بہتر بنانے کے لئے ایک آلے کے طور پر حوالہ دیا جاتا ہے۔ یہ گائیڈ شواہد پر مبنی پروگراموں اور پالیسیوں کے نفاذ اور اسکیل اپ کی حمایت کے لئے کمیونٹی کی شمولیت سے متعلق شواہد کا...
Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention
Use of Electronic Cigarettes Among Cannabis-Naive Adolescents and Its Association With Future Cannabis Use
Abstract
Importance Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use has been reported to increase the likelihood of future cigarette smoking among adolescents. The prospective association between e-cigarette use and cannabis use has been less...
Using Adolescent Development to Inform Prevention Practice
Participants will review major social and biological factors of adolescent development and implications for ways to approach substance use prevention/intervention.
Objectives Include:
- Describe prevalence rates for adolescent...
Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Young Adults: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Patterns, Psychosocial Correlates, and Consequences
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Alcohol and marijuana are commonly used by young adults, and use of both substances, particularly at the same time, is prevalent among this population. Understanding the prevalence, patterns, correlates, and...
Severe bacterial infections in people who inject drugs: The role of injection-related tissue damage
Abstract
Background
In the context of the current U.S. injection drug use epidemic, targeted public health harm reduction strategies have traditionally focused on overdose prevention and reducing transmission of blood-borne viral...
کام کے ماحول کے عوامل اور اوپیوئڈ سے متعلق اموات کی روک تھام
امریکی کارکنوں میں اوپیوئیڈ استعمال کی خرابی (او او ڈی) اور اوپیوئیڈ اوورڈوز اموات (او او ڈی) عام ہیں ، لیکن کام سے متعلق عوامل کو خطرے کے عوامل یا او او ڈی کی روک تھام کے مواقع کے طور پر مناسب توجہ نہیں ملی ہے۔ بھاری جسمانی ملازمتوں، زیادہ...
روک تھام پلس تندرستی سے نئے مفت تشخیص کے اوزار
پریوینشن پلس ویلنیس (پی پی ڈبلیو) نے اپنے مفت پروگرام پری ٹیسٹ اور پوسٹ ٹیسٹ سروے اور فیڈلٹی چیک لسٹ کو روک تھام فراہم کنندگان کے استعمال کے لئے اپ ڈیٹ کیا ہے تاکہ اس بات کو یقینی بنایا جاسکے کہ ان کے پروگراموں کو قابل اعتماد طریقے سے نافذ...
President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week
President Biden issued the first ever Presidential Proclamation recognizing August 29, 2021 – September 4, 2021 as Overdose Awareness Week – a time to honor the lives lost to the overdose epidemic and recommit to both preventing overdoses...
Webinar | Media-Based Persuasive Prevention
Registration Open For FREE Virtual Summit: Reframing Global Prevention Practices and Policies During COVID 19
Join us for this free virtual summit featuring Ms. Giovanna Campello, Chief, UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, and Dr. Robert DuPont, President, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. and First Director, U.S. National...
مستقبل کے مطالعہ کی نگرانی: مختلف منشیات کے پھیلاؤ میں رجحانات
15 دسمبر کو ، منشیات کے غلط استعمال سے متعلق امریکی نیشنل انسٹی ٹیوٹ نے یونیورسٹی آف مشی گن کے محققین کی سربراہی میں سالانہ مانیٹرنگ دی فیوچر مطالعہ سے نئے اعداد و شمار کا اعلان کیا۔
16 دسمبر کو ڈیٹا پروسیسنگ میں ایک نقص پایا گیا۔ اس غلطی...
Washington State University PhD in Prevention Science
In 2012, Washington State University became the first to offer a PhD in Prevention Science.
The curriculum is designed to ensure that students both
(a) receive broad, interdisciplinary training in the area of prevention science; and
(b)...
The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19
The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19
Drugs of Abuse Resource Guide
Education plays a critical role in preventing substance abuse.
Drugs of Abuse, a DEA Resource Guide, is designed to be a reliable resource on the most commonly abused and misused drugs in the United States.
This comprehensive guide...
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