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Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Synthetic Cannabinoids: What Health Risks Do They Pose?
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...
Why Are Many American Adults Misusing Prescription Painkillers?
Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults
Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes...
¿Es posible una lucha real?
Geraldine González Willim es experta en la prevención y el tratamiento de adicciones de drogas legales o ilegales. En esta entrevista, detalla sobre los planes de acción aplicables al Paraguay para luchar contra un flagelo que cada día...
Line Up Live Up Trainer Manual: Preventing Drug Use by Promoting Active Lifestyles
Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.
It looks to promote sport and...
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: A Potential Role in Cancer Prevention for Young Adults
Excessive or risky alcohol use is a preventable cause of significant morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and worldwide. Alcohol use is a common preventable cancer risk factor among young adults; it is associated with increased risk of...
EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse
Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...
Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood
The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2017) is a special volume that supplements the organisation’s Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, released in 2003...
WHO's 2017 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report
The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download.
Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least...
The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
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Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills Training Programmes
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills Training Programmes offers a treasure trove of information on such initiatives, answering key questions like:
- Who is the target group?
- W...
Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention
Published by the Society for Prevention Research in 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention is an important document for those working within substance use prevention.
With the aim of professionalising the field, it...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
افغانستان میں بچوں کے لئے مداخلت کا نفاذ اور تشخیص
حالیہ مطالعے میں افغانستان میں 4 سے 18 سال کی عمر کے 783 بچوں کو فراہم کیے جانے والے مادہ کے استعمال یا فعال طور پر استعمال کرنے والے بچوں کے لئے ایک نئی مداخلت کے اثرات کا جائزہ لیا گیا۔ انہوں نے بیرونی مریضوں یا رہائشی علاج کے دوران چائلڈ...
Towards a New Consensus for Addiction Medicine Training
A new study asks for the opinions of addiction experts, with a view to reaching a consensus on the necessary core skills that medical education ought to cover.
کیا شخصیت اور شراب نوشی سے دوسرے ہاتھ کے نقصانات کے درمیان کوئی تعلق ہے؟
شراب کے استعمال سے 'سیکنڈ ہینڈ نقصان' میں حادثات اور / یا تشدد ، نیند میں خلل ، املاک کی تباہی ، تعلقات اور / یا مالی مسائل شامل ہوسکتے ہیں۔
اگرچہ پچھلی تحقیق سے پتہ چلا ہے کہ 70 فیصد انڈرگریجویٹ طالب علموں کو اپنے ساتھی طالب علموں کے...
Call for Papers: Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth through the Power of Prevention
The Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Parents Are a Key Influence on Teenage Drinking Habits, Study Finds
A new study that provides details of drinking habits and influential factors among Australian teenagers appears in the latest edition of the academic journal BMC Public Health.
The investigation’s findings notably include:
- Most...
The Role of Science in Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Opioid misuse and addiction is an ongoing and rapidly evolving public health crisis, requiring innovative scientific solutions. In response, and because no existing medication is ideal for every patient, the National Institutes of Health...
Using Behavioral Triage in Court-Supervised Treatment of DUI Offenders
San Joaquin county in California has pointed the way forward to a system which conserves treatment resources yet achieves greater reductions in drink/drug-driving incidents. The first evaluation of systematically escalating offenders to...