Practice

COVID-19 Response: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Community Health Workers

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This online course provides an overview of how community health workers (CHWs) can support their communities by providing appropriate mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this course you will learn how to...

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics

Scientific article

1 January 2017

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics - This paper (synoptic version, peer reviewed and published in Journal of Global Drug Policy & Practice) is a review of and research into the social...

Alcohol and self-harm: A qualitative study

Scientific article

Executive Summary This qualitative study was commissioned by Alcohol Change UK in Wales to explore how and why alcohol and self-harm are related, and how alcohol, self-harm, and related services, are experienced and understood. Eleven...

Health Harming Products and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention in Scotland

6 September 2021

Online

United Kingdom

A cross-party discussion on the impact of health-harming products to launch a new report on by ten of Scotland's leading health charities

Overdose recognition and management: Reading list

Reading List

According to the World Health Organisation, around half a million deaths each year are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids, with more than 30% of those deaths caused by overdose. Signs, symptoms...

Identifying content-based engagement patterns in a smoking cessation website and associations with user characteristics and cessation outcomes: a sequence and cluster analysis

Scientific article

12 January 2021

Tobacco smoking is the greatest cause of sickness and early death worldwide, with 8 million people dying each year from a smoking-related condition. The use of pharmaceutical or behavioural assistance improves smokers' chances of quitting...

Substance use and the workplace: Supporting employers and employees in the trades

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The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction partnered with Health Canada to produce Substance Use and the Workplace: Supporting Employers and Employees in the Trades. This collection of resources contains links from more than 30...

Advances in Technology in the Addiction Profession, Part V: Connection? Can an App Really Do That?

27 August 2021

Online

Description: An increased number of clients present with depression and anxiety, which results from - or may be caused by - social isolation and loneliness. As clinicians, the goal is to decrease symptoms and help make connections between feelings and behavior. Can an app help clinicians better help their clients?

Launch event: Dame Carol Black’s independent review of drugs, part 2

Video and audio recordings

Take-home naloxone

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Opioid overdose deaths can be prevented through timely administration of naloxone, a potent opioid antagonist drug that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid analgesics by binding to the opioid receptors in the central nervous system...