Prevention

Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Efforts to Strengthen a Culture of Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Scientific article

17 January 2020

Abstract This article discusses how decision-makers can be supported to strengthen a culture of prevention. This article presents an example of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) work to engage with decision-makers to...

11th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

7 October 2020

Lisbon

Portugal

The EUSPR Board has decided to move its Eleventh Conference and Members’ Meeting and Workshops to an online event. The face to face event scheduled October 7th -9th 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal is cancelled.

Call for Team Applications: Fifteenth Annual Sloboda and Bukoski SPR Cup

News

Significant advances in prevention science are often due to a team of individuals working closely together across many years. In recognition of the importance of the collaborative process to the field, the Society for Prevention Research...

Free Webinar: Academic Programmes in Drug Treatment and Prevention at Paraguayan Universities

31 January 2020

Webinar

Title

Academic Programmes in Drug

8th Annual Drug Prevention Summit

Website

21 January 2020

Join together with drug prevention professionals from across the U.S. at our 8th Annual Drug Prevention Summit on February 17th and 18th, in Tampa, Florida. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to hear from many influential leaders...

Engaging Youth in Substance Use Prevention (EYTSUP) - 2019/2020

News

Project Goals To educate and train professionals and students on preventing their societies from the hazardous effects of substance use. Key Achievements During Project It was initially intended to invite 20 professionals from different...

Prevention Plus Wellness Youth and Teacher Resources

Website

13 January 2020

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides easy to use evidence-informed resources to help prevention and health specialists and parents prevent youth and young adult alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, e-cigarette, and opioid use while promoting...

Policy Brief: Alcohol Taxation and Pricing Policies in the Region of the Americas

Book

The need to reduce alcohol-related harms has been recognized by the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (adopted by the Sixty-third World Health Assembly), the United Nations Sustainable...

Harm to Others from Drinking: Patterns in Nine Societies

Book

25 October 2019

The adverse impact of alcohol consumption include the negative consequences of drinking on individuals other than the drinkers themselves, including both health and social problems. Alcohol’s harm to others (HTO) is an interactional...

Prevention of Substance Use

Book

This volume provides a serious examination of substance use prevention research and practices as components of the continuum from health promotion through to prevention and health care in sub-groups and in the general population. Extensive...