Background: Electronic cigarette usage has seen a significant increase globally in recent years, with many countries reporting a rise in users. However, the way African news portrays this phenomenon remains unclear.

Methods: This study employs a mixed-methodology approach to investigate this subject. The research focuses on news articles about electronic cigarette use obtained from AllAfrica, an online African news archive. A total of 38 online news and opinion articles published between June 2017 and June 2022 met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Content analysis revealed prevalent...

In the UK, alcohol presents an urgent and growing problem: 70 people die due to alcohol every day. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated this crisis, with alcohol-specific deaths having increased by 27% between 2019 and 2021, reaching record highs.

The estimated cost of alcohol on the UK healthcare system is £8.3 billion annually. Predictions show that unless alcohol consumption returns to pre- pandemic levels, by 2034 it will cost the already-stretched NHS in England an additional £1billion.Although alcohol harms have increased, sadly the provision of treatment has not: only one in five...

LATAR BELAKANG: Penerapan standar mutu Coolmine melibatkan periode manajemen perubahan, perencanaan strategis, dan pengembangan kebijakan nasional.

METODE: Studi kasus naratif yang berfokus pada kebijakan nasional dan perencanaan strategis internal.

KESIMPULAN: Dari tahun 2000, Coolmine memulai perjalanan manajemen perubahan yang membuat organisasi berada di garis depan perawatan narkoba dan alkohol di Irlandia dan internasional sambil mempertahankan kesetiaan kepada Komunitas Terapeutik. Strategi untuk jaminan kualitas dapat direplikasi di seluruh organisasi serupa.

Telah diumumkan bahwa otoritas lokal di seluruh Inggris akan mendapat manfaat dari dana pemerintah tambahan £ 421 juta hingga 2025 untuk meningkatkan perawatan dan pemulihan kecanduan narkoba dan alkohol.

Dana tambahan akan memungkinkan penciptaan lebih dari 50.000 tempat berkualitas tinggi untuk perawatan narkoba dan alkohol.

Pendanaan tersebut akan memungkinkan pemerintah daerah untuk:

• merekrut lebih banyak staf untuk bekerja dengan orang-orang dengan masalah narkoba dan alkohol
• mendukung lebih banyak lulusan penjara ke dalam layanan perawatan dan pemulihan
• berinvestasi dalam...

The VNGOC together with NYNGOC and the UNODC Civil Society Unit is organizing an online side event in the margins of the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum on 31 January 2023 at 8.30 AM. The event is titled: The central role of civil society in drug policies, COVID-19 and achieving the 2030 Agenda

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances – has been implemented in some jurisdictions to provide safer alternatives to the unregulated drug supply, yet no studies to date have explored professional stakeholder perspectives on this approach.

Methods

Purposive sampling was used to recruit professional stakeholders (n = 17) from four locations in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia...

Background

Interdisciplinary collaborations (i.e., where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are stated to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary approaches (i.e., where various disciplines work in parallel within their professional boundaries) in somatic health care settings. Nevertheless, research is lacking on interdisciplinary approaches for alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment of hospitalized patients as these types of approaches are still uncommon. This study aims to evaluate an innovative interdisciplinary AUD treatment...