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The ISSUP staff team met in June to discuss the coming months and updates to the website. The ISSUP team work remotely in various different locations internationally so it is great to come together face to face to work on big developments...

In our third Student Membership Update we have sourced some funding and research opportunities, and events that we are sure will be of interest. 

One great way to be more active in this field is to join ISSUP as a member and to contribute...

It's been a decade since the financial crisis drove up the unemployment rate in the U.S. and forced people in the prime of their careers to give up looking for work.

Even today, as employers add jobs at a furious pace, the workforce...

The rapid adoption of e-cigarettes has been driven, at least in part, by a huge jump in the potency of e-liquids.

CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONG teenagers is on the wane. While data show smoking among teenagers has dropped over the past few years...

New Brunswick jails aren't offering any addiction treatment or therapy for mentally ill inmates, according to the province's auditor general.

Kim MacPherson's investigation into treatment in jails revealed a patchwork system where no one...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is now accepting applications for $930 million in State Opioid Response Grants. SAMHSA will...

Los resultados de un estudio en el que han participado 1.276 personas de 80 países diferentes, todas ellas residentes en España o en países hispanohablantes, apuntan a que más de la mitad de los menores de 18 años experimentan problemas...

Lessdrugs is an project supported by the EIT Health initiative. Bringing together Imperial College London, Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing and the University of Copenhagen the pilot project implements microlearning to explore choices...

Sideal is a self-help app available in Spanish for people experiencing alcohol dependance. The app offers advice on reducing consumption and abstinence.

The app can be used to set and track goals that someone has set for themselves or one...

Hanover Hospital and its affiliated healthcare clinics has become a model for how a healthcare system that is fully engaged in embracing evidence-based treatment of opioid use disorders can make significant change.

A little more than a...

Likewise cancer, addiction is a complex disease that requires being addressed by an integral, balanced and multidisciplinary approach. Currently, within the healthcare systems, there are available treatment options for cancer that are...

An opioid crisis is spreading throughout Africa. This comprehensive article traces consumption of tramadol across the continent, focusing on the scenario in various African countries in addition to the complexities of deciding on how to...

A webinar on opioid use disorder by Dr. Dennis McCarty is now available through the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) website. 

The hour long webinar took place in April 2018 and discusses treatment and prevention. The webinar...

Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation has allowed researchers to reduce how "excited" the brains of chronic cocaine and alcohol users become in response to drug cues.

Drug addiction is a chronic disease affecting 5.4 percent of the...