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Quality Assurance
Quality assurance refers to the systematic processes used to monitor, evaluate, and improve the quality of services addressing substance use disorders. These processes help ensure that prevention, treatment, and recovery services are safe, effective, ethical, and aligned with recognised professional standards and evidence-based practices. Quality assurance may include service standards, accreditation, supervision, monitoring of outcomes, client feedback, and continuous quality improvement mechanisms. By promoting accountability and consistent service delivery, quality assurance supports better health outcomes and strengthens substance use systems of care.
Pilot Training of Stakeholders on Alternatives to Incarceration for People Who Use Drugs in Contact with the Criminal Justice System in Nigeria: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
BACKGROUND: Studies have reported a high prevalence of substance misuse among people who use drugs (PWUD) in contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in Nigeria. Further, there is limited access to treatment resulting in high rates of...
Adaptation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Recovery Capital (MIRC) to the Czech Environment
INTRODUCTION: While international attention toward addiction recovery research is growing, in the Czech environment there is still a lack of research data and tools for measuring this concept. The primary objective of the research project...
IPREV: A National Interactive Platform for Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Risk Behaviour – A Case Study of a Comprehensive School- and Community-Based Prevention System
BACKGORUND: Infrastructural support has become a critical factor in the implementation of prevention at the regional and national level. The complexity of risk behaviour prevention requires a diverse and systematic approach.
AIM: This...
Educating Educators on Substance Use: Insights from the Blended Approach
The school-based drug prevention training program under study is about the combined use of an online learning format and a traditional face-to-face session. This study aims to identify the factors that facilitated or impeded the successful...
Call for Abstracts: Lisbon Addictions
The 2027 edition of Lisbon Addictions will take place from 20–22 October 2027 under the overarching theme ‘Addiction in times of disruption: science, technology and whole-of-society responses’.
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Advancing the science of evaluating Collegiate Recovery Program processes and outcomes: A recovery capital perspective
Collegiate recovery programs (CRPs) offer resources and programming for postsecondary students in addiction recovery to ensure they can initiate or maintain their recovery and complete college. To achieve these goals, CRPs offer a variety...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We know what works, why don’t we use it? Some reflections from our work with Member States
For more than 15 years, UNODC has been promoting evidence-based practice on drug use, as well as treatment, harm reduction and recovery services for people who use drugs and people with drug use disorders, both in the community and when in...
Recent U.S. drug alerts: Turning emerging evidence into workforce preparedness
Recent United States alerts on fentanyl analogues, medetomidine, cychlorphine, drug mixtures and concentrated 7-OH products highlight evolving challenges across the substance use workforce. They invite us to review local preparedness, understand testing limitations and strengthen links between frontline services, laboratories and public-health partners. A useful response brings together clinical, prevention, recovery and peer perspectives, with clear responsibilities for turning relevant findings into action. For the global ISSUP community, these alerts offer lessons in preparedness while requiring careful consideration of local evidence, resources and service arrangements. Staying informed through trusted sources and sharing practical responses through ISSUP can help translate emerging knowledge into safer care and more responsive support for individuals, families and communities.
The prevalence, risk and protective factors and service needs in relation to the comorbidity of substance use and neurodiversity
This report was commissioned by Citywide because Community Drugs Projects had recognised a need for support to develop better service delivery for people who were neurodivergent. Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign is a national network of...
Substance Use and Health Competencies for All Prescribers
Developed by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), the Workforce Competencies provide an evidence-informed framework outlining the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed by professionals working in substance...
Foundational Habits for Early Career Professionals
This webinar discusses the how, why, and what of foundational habits. Foundational habits are beneficial actions we make part of our routine to be successful long-term.
The Role of Faith Communities in Addressing Substance Use and Crime – Reading List (Part 2)
In this second reading list, we continue exploring the growing evidence on the role and contribution of faith communities and faith-based organisations in addressing substance use and crime, with a particular focus on treatment engagement...
Explore the UNODC World Drug Report 2026: Drug Market Patterns and Trends
The UNODC World Drug Report 2026 introduces a new interactive platform that allows users to explore the latest global, regional, and subregional trends in drug demand and supply through dynamic data visualisations, maps, graphs, and...
The Role of Law Enforcement in the Reduction of Substance Use and Other Behavioral Health Risks: Substance Use as a Focus: United States as an Example
This paper explores how law enforcement can contribute to the prevention of substance use and other behavioural health risks beyond their traditional enforcement role. Using the United States as an example, it argues that police and other...
