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Connecting Evidence, Prevention, Law Enforcement and Community Action: Key Insights from ISSUP 2026
How do we go about translating evidence into effective action, strengthen prevention, address drug-related crime, improve access to treatment and recovery support, and build safer, healthier communities?
This age-old question was explored...
Para-Methoxymethamphetamine (PMMA) in tablets sold as ecstasy: Why this matters across our workforce
From Evidence to Practice: Advances in Substance Use Disorder Care
Evidence-based interventions can improve prevention, treatment and recovery outcomes, but knowing what works does not guarantee that people will benefit. Effective responses depend on trained professionals, supportive systems, coordinated...
Addressing Youth Substance Use and Crime: Risk Factors and Strategies
Protecting young people from substance use and crime: building safer communities and pathways to support
Young people's involvement in substance use and crime cannot be understood without considering the environments in which they grow up...
Faith-Based Approaches: The Role of Faith and Religious Institutions in Addressing Substance Use
Faith, spirituality and faith-based organisations can play an important role in addressing substance use, supporting recovery and responding to related vulnerabilities as well as crime. Across different cultural and community settings, they...
Victimisation des jeunes et dynamiques urbaines de la violence
Dans un contexte urbain marqué par des transformations sociales, économiques et technologiques rapides, la compréhension des dynamiques de victimisation chez les jeunes dans l’agglomération de Montréal apparaît essentielle pour soutenir l...
WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence: forty-eighth report
The forty-eighth meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) was convened from 20 to 22 October 2025 and was coordinated from WHO headquarters in Geneva. The forty-eighth WHO ECDD critically reviewed four substances...
Call for Papers: Prevention Science Special Issue on Relational Health
This special issue responds to the Society for Prevention Research’s growing emphasis on multilevel prevention and systems change by advancing a global dialogue on how multilevel, relational health promoting interventions can be designed...
Handbook on the crime prevention guidelines: Making them work
The present Handbook is one of a series of practical tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to support countries in the implementation of the standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice...