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WHA adopts Global Alcohol Action Plan
Childhood Traumatic Grief: Youth Information Sheet
Most of you who experience the death of someone important adjust and recover over time. However, some of you may have more trouble adjusting and may develop Childhood Traumatic Grief. This can happen if the death was sudden, such as from a...
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Twelfth Session)
ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviours: Targeting Adolescents in Nigeria.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain...
Strategy for Preventing Opioid Use Disorder in Communities
Key Issues
- Substance use often begins in adolescence.
- Any substance use in adolescence can have detrimental effects on the developing brain.
- Effects of substance use/misuse accumulate over time increasing societal costs and public...
Economic benefits of increased Hep C testing and treatment
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...
Building resilience in survivors of sexual exploitation: The role of children in activities implemented by NGOs in Uganda
Abstract
Children are increasingly affected by sexual exploitation (SEC), and the subsequent hardships arising out threaten their lives. Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of trauma or other significant sources of...
اطلاقی روک تھام سائنس بین الاقوامی جشن روک تھام ہفتہ
8-14 مئی قومی روک تھام ہفتہ ہے!
ہر روز اے پی ایس آئی اپنے ایک روک تھام کے نگیٹس، روک تھام کی بات چیت اور روک تھام کی تصویروں کو نمایاں کرے گا، جو سب ایک مخصوص روک تھام کے موضوع پر مرکوز ہیں۔
روزانہ کی جھلکیاں دیکھنے کے لئے اے پی ایس...
Peer-facilitated treatment access for hepatitis C: The Live Hep C Free project
This article explores the lessons learned during the implementation of a peer-facilitated hepatitis C virus hepatitis C testing and treatment access project called the Live Hep C Free project in contributing to micro-elimination efforts.
...Alcohol advertising patterns and harm-reduction messaging
This presentation focussed on the strategies used by alcohol marketers to promote their products, impending trends in alcohol distribution, effective approaches for messaging about alcohol-related harms, and public support for a range of...
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...
Peer to Peer User Guide-Drug and Alcohol Peer to Peer Prevention Program
This guide is developed to facilitate the work of Peer Counsellors in training Peer Educators in substance abuse prevention. It is based on the experience from the peer to peer drug prevention programs conducted by UYDEL. This peer to peer...
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...
Schools and drugs: health and social responses
Training on Universal Prevention Core Course (UPC - Core Course) for Prevention Professionals
In order to appropriately address the concerning global levels of substance Abuse Management and substance Prevention, it is vital that staffs are trained to deliver evidence-based Prevention intervention.
At the start of March 2022, the...
UNODC Training for Albanian Policymakers on the Nature, Prevention, Treatment and Care of Drug Use Disorders
UNODC organized a training for 19 Albanian policymakers on the Nature, Prevention, and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders from 12-14 April 2022 in Tirana, Albania. Participants from the Ministries of Health and Social Protection, Education...
UNODC Listen First
A UNODC drug use prevention initiative that promotes the well-being of children and youth, their families and their communities. Presenter: Jenny Roston Lundstrom, Coordinator - UNODC PTRS
Alcohol-related violence & deprivation
Watch the research presentations on alcohol-related violence and deprivation by Lucy Bryant (Institute of Alcohol Studies, IAS) and Dr Carly Lightowlers (University of Liverpool), delivered at the SHAAP/SARN 'Alcohol Occasionals' webinar...
MUP and homeless/street drinkers & service providers
Watch the video of the SHAAP/SARN 'Alcohol Occasionals' webinar presentation, held over Zoom on 31 March 2022: "Minimum Unit Pricing (#MUP): Qualitative study of the experiences of homeless drinkers, street drinkers and service providers"...
Lanzamiento del Capitulo Español de ISSUP
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