Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Prevention
Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland: A Qualitative Study of Children and Young People’s Own Drinking and Related Behaviour
Talk title:
Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland: A qualitative study of children and young people’s own drinking and related behaviour
Speakers:
Dr Briege Nugent & Ian Clark, Director of Iconic Consulting
Nicotine and the Developing Brain: A FENS-sponsored SRNT-E Mini-conference
During adolescence, the brain regions such as prefrontal cortex necessary for cognitive and executive function, working memory, motivated behaviour and emotional regulation are being reorganized. Cholinergic system and cholinergic nicotinic receptors are important role players in this maturation process of the brain from adolescence to adulthood.
Access to Drug Treatment Services in Nigeria: The Challenge of Addiction Workforce
Presentation by Drs. Chia Francis and Mashika Esther This webinar will illuminate the level of drug use in Nigeria, efforts made so far to address access to drug abuse treatment services in Nigeria, and details of a study regarding access...
GISA to Commence Online UPC Training in Nigeria
Global Initiative on Substance Abuse (GISA) will on July 20th, 2020 commence online dissemination of the Universal Prevention Curriculum for substance use disorders in Nigeria. More! https://gisainitiative.org
Video: Drug Prevention: Challenges and Experiences in Times of Pandemic
The Addiction Unit of the University Psychiatric Clinic, belonging to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile and the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile presented a seminar on prevention of drug use: challenges and experiences in times of pandemic.
Alcohol, MDMA and cannabis use: Impact on the adolescent brain
This webinar is for teachers, school staff, parents and others who are interested in understanding the effect of drugs on adolescent brain. It explores the development of adolescent brain and how this process is interrupted by the use of...
Building the Capacity of the Prevention Workforce Worldwide
Zili Sloboda presents on the international effort to create a substance use prevention workforce.
Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Factsheet
Drug overdoses have dramatically increased over the last two decades, and deaths from overdose have increased sharply since 2013. In 2016, more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. Of those overdose deaths, around 2 in 3 have...
Investing in Prevention: Standards and Innovation in Economic Evaluation
In this presentation, Dr. Crowley discusses key standards for economic evaluation as identified by a number of convergent efforts. In particular, the video discusses important role of administrative records for mapping the costs and...
Prevention of Prescription Drug Misuse Among the Latino Community
Prescription drugs have become an integral player in today’s opioid epidemic, but they had already been negatively impacting Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States. This webinar described how, utilizing the Strategic...