This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...
Now in its 20th year of publication, the UNODC World Drug Report for 2017 is now available.
It consists of 5 accessible booklets:
Booklet 1 provides a summary of the subsequent 4 booklets. It also discusses the policy implications of...
This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the U...
Introduced by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 42/112 of December 1987 and observed annually since 1988, today marks the 29th International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
What is it?
د اروپا د مخدره توکو او روږدو کسانو د څارنې مرکز (EMCDDA) پدې وروستیو کې د 2017 لپاره د اروپا د مخدره توکو راپور خپور کړ. دا سند په ټوله براعظم کې د مخدره توکو وضعیت عمومی کتنه وړاندې کوی. پدې کې د مخدره توکو عرضه او کارول او همدارنګه د...
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...
ایا د لوړ خطر زده کونکی د معیاری درملو زده کړې نوښتونو په پرتله د روانی مداخلو څخه ډیره ګټه پورته کوی؟
ډیری څیړنې وړاندیز کوی چې په حقیقت کې یو شمیر د پام وړ مثبت اغیزې شتون لری چې د پخوانیو سره تړاو لری.
په هرصورت ، هغه څه چې خورا...
The World Health Organization has released a series of briefings on violence prevention. Of particular interest is Chapter 3: Preventing Violence by Reducing Availability and Harmful Use of Alcohol.
‘Harmful use of alcohol is a major...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
ګیلبرتو ګررا، د ملګرو ملتونو د نشه یی توکو او جرمونو پر وړاندې د مخنیوی د څانګې مشر ، په ویانا کې د یو ان او ډی سی په مرکز کې د " د مخنیوی د معیارونو د نوی کولو په اړه د تخنیکی مشورې په اړه غونډه پرانېزی.
جیف لی، د ایس ایس او پ اجرایوی...
Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research...
Background: Parental absence, due to death or separation from a parent, has been associated with smoking and alcohol consumption in adolescence and adulthood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether parental absence in...
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
مخکینی څیړنې د ځوانانو د خطرناک الکول کارولو او د ملګری چلند په اړه د دوی د تصور تر مینځ قوی اړیکې موندلې ، په بیله بیا د مصرف کولو پیسې او یو شمیر غیر ټولنیز چلندونه. په هرصورت ، د اغیزمن انتخابی مداخلو ډیزاین کولو لپاره...
What is already known about this topic?
The United States has experienced a sharp increase in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence that can be attributed to injection drug use. Some states have used public health laws and...