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Impact of COVID-19 on drug markets, use, harms and drug services in the community and prisons
Source: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/13745/TD0321143ENN_002.pdf
Summary
Since early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the way we live, with European countries having to introduce...
EMCDDA Trendspotter Study on COVID-19 and Drugs
The EMCDDA releases today the third in a series of rapid ‘trendspotter’ studies exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the drug situation and responses to it. Revisiting and reviewing findings from two studies in 2020 on the effects of the...
College Students’ Perspectives on an Alcohol Prevention Programme and Student Drinking
There are a number of interventions designed to reduce harmful levels of alcohol consumption among college students.
In order to design effective programmes, it is important to understand the attitude of students towards these kinds of...
Drinking Transitions During Lockdown
Watch the video of the research presentation “Understanding drinking transitions during lockdown: social inequalities, alcohol and the COVID-19 pandemic” by Dr Emily Nicholls (University of York), delivered at the SHAAP/SARN 'Alcohol...
Managing Co-occuring Alcohol and Other Drug and Mental Health Conditions
This website provides evidence-based information, training and resources to assist with the management of co-occurring, or comorbid, AOD and mental health conditions.
The content is based on the second edition of the “Guidelines on the...
Medications for Opioid Overdose, Withdrawal & Addiction
This infographic shows the different types of medications prescribed for opioid overdose, withdrawal, and addiction.
Medications for opioid addiction, overdose, and withdrawal work in various ways.
- Opioid Receptor Agonist: Medications...
COVID-19 Perceived Impact and Psychological Variables as Predictors of Unhealthy Food and Alcohol Consumption Trajectories: The Role of Gender and Living with Children as Moderators
Abstract
The present study examines the trajectories of unhealthy food and alcohol consumption over time and considers whether perceived impact of COVID-19 and psychological variables are predictors of these trajectories. We ascertained...
General guidelines on gender-based labour violence for workplaces in Mexico
Liaison and Partnership Office in Mexico of...
The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM) in Scotland
The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM, also known as ‘Planet Youth’) is a community-based approach aiming to prevent young people’s substance use through reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors.
A new team, based in Dundee...
Contribution of Sport and Sport-based Interventions to Substance Use Prevention
Building on the UNODC Global Initiative on Youth Crime Prevention through Sport and its Line Up Live Up programme, the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, and relevant research on the contribution of sport to healthy...
Civil Society & COVID-19 - Responses to the Pandemic
Side event during the 64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) organized jointly by the UNODC Civil Society Unit and VNGOC.
Drug Experienced Young People in Contact with the Criminal Justice System.
The journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy has published a special edition focussing on Drug experienced young people in contact with the Criminal Justice System.
The collection of papers examines young peoples' experiences of...
Society for the Study of Addiction Launches Early Career Research Network
The new SSA Early Career Research Network launches on 19 May, providing a series of (initially online) events designed to support PhD students and post-doc academics through the early stages of their addiction research careers.
Run by...
Natural Recovery by the Liver and Other Organs After Chronic Alcohol Use
ABSTRACT
Chronic, heavy alcohol consumption disrupts normal organ function and causes structural damage in virtually every tissue of the body. Current diagnostic terminology states that a person who drinks alcohol excessively has alcohol...
Ring us, FICT: "Well the delegation to anti-drug policies to Minister Dadone. Start collaborative work starting from the centrality of the person and not of the substance"
Luciano Squillaci, FICT President: "We express satisfaction for several reasons: because the delegation to anti-drug policies has finally been assigned after years of emptiness, because it has been assigned to a Ministry and because it is a...
The rapidly changing composition of the global street drug supply and Its effects on high-risk groups for COVID-19
Who is an Addiction Professional?
Eight guiding principles of the digital transformation of the health sector. A call to pan-American action
Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/53730/OPSEIHIS210004_spa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
The digitization of health services represents important cultural changes for both health personnel and the general population...
Brazil participates in the 64th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) that took place in Vienna
The 64th Session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna, Austria, from April 12 to 16, 2021.
The CND meets annually and is the main drug policy-making body in the United Nations (UN) system...
