Search

To what extent does socioeconomic position affect adolescent drinking behaviours?

A new article recently published in the academic journal BMC Public Health addresses this question in the context of six different European countries among...

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 European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...

New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...

New findings published in the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science suggest that flavoured e-cigarettes appeal particularly to youth and young adults.

From the study's sample population, 99% of 12-17-year-olds and 95% of young adults...

Objective: To analyze successful national smoke-free policy implementation in Colombia, a middle income country.

Materials and methods: Key informants at the national and local levels were interviewed and news sources and government...

In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...

The Evaluation Report on Drug Control (2014) for the Sixth Evaluation Round of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) measures the progress of actions taken by the 34 OAS (Organization of American States) member states to address the...

Public Health England’s recently published review reveals that the country’s drug misuse treatment system is performing well. However, there are still several areas that call for improvements.

Amongst the report’s findings, notable are:

The Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB) is an online database of freely available resources for evaluating drug prevention and treatment programmes and initiatives. You can search the archive by type of intervention (treatment or prevention)...

In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?

This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at...

The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.

The latest...

Smoking and its related harms cost the world more than $1 trillion and claim the lives of around 6 million people each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute.

$1...

In its first report for almost 20 years, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), has found the use of marijuana seems to be particularly connected to:

• Breathing problems
• Mental health issues such as psychosis, social anxiety and...

Smoking is a serious health issue worldwide. Prevalence, however, has steadily declined across Australia over the last several decades thanks to a number of successful public health campaigns. The number of smokers in the country is now...

According to new findings published in the journal Tobacco Control, more than 53 million people in 88 countries have stopped smoking between 2008 – 2014 because of tobacco control measures.

Statistically, this means that during the 4...