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The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
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Podcast: Alcohol Alerts
This episode focuses on data released ahead of the first anniversary of the Scottish Government's flagship health policy of minimum unit pricing. You might be mistaken in thinking the issue is a simple one – has minimum unit pricing led to...
Podcasts: Say Why to Drugs
The internet is full of misinformation about recreational drugs - both legal and illegal.
Dr Suzi Gage, a psychologist interested in understanding associations between substance use and mental health, tackles one substance per episode -...
Follow the Data Podcast: Tobacco Industry Watchdogs
Episode 32: Tobacco Industry Watchdogs Soundcloud Podcast
The Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP) competition was launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies at the March 2018 World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Cape Town...
Gender Differences in the Bidirectional Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Sleeplessness
Abstract
Background
The degree to which the relationship between alcohol use and sleeplessness is unidirectional or reciprocal is unclear due to great variation among the results of previous studies. The aim of the present study was to...
Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder among Special Subpopulations: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Abstract
Aim
To collate prevalence estimates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) among special subpopulations (defined by service use).
Design
Systematic literature review and meta‐analysis of original, quantitative studies...
Smoke Signals: What Does Legalised Cannabis Mean for Mental Health?
Smoke Signals: what does legalised cannabis mean for mental health?
Chaired by: Ian Hamilton, University of York
Panellists:
- Prof Val Curran, Professor of Psychopharmacology, UCL
- Dr Marta Di Forti, Psychiatrist, London
- Dr Suzi Gage...
A Public Health Approach to Alcohol Use and its Related Harms in Iran
In Iran, alcohol consumption, production, and trade are criminalised for Muslim citizens; however, bootleg alcohol and harmful alcohol consumption is a burden that should not be overlooked.
Currently the Iranian Ministry of Health has...
Combined Effects of Marijuana and Nicotine on Memory Performance and Hippocampal Volume
Highlights
- Examined drug effects of tobacco, marijuana and combined marijuana + nicotine use.
- Hippocampal volumes were smaller in marijuana users (with or without nicotine).
- Abnormal brain-behavior relationships in combined marijuana +...
Infografika zdanění alkoholu
Zdanění alkoholu má obrovský potenciál pro globální zdraví, pro pomoc při dosahování cílů udržitelného rozvoje a také pro významný příspěvek k financování zdraví a rozvoje.
Tato infografika, navržená společností IOGT International...
Seminar Presentation: Ecological Momentary Assessment of Alcohol Use
The majority of existing knowledge on patterns of alcohol consumption is based on retrospective-recall methodologies.
These are cost-efficient and convenient but are limited in their capacity to record data on the circumstances of alcohol...
Informační přehledy o alkoholu a jiných drogách na pracovišti
S cílem pomoci pracovištím reagovat na alkohol a jiné škody související s drogami na pracovišti vypracovalo Národní centrum pro vzdělávání a odbornou přípravu v oblasti závislostí řadu informačních přehledů o běžně užívaných drogách a...
Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions
This fact sheet describes the best practices that community-based behavioural health, and probation and parole agencies can implement to ensure that reentry for people who have opioid addictions is safe and successful.
Dobrovolní výzkumní pracovníci Wanted - Mentor UK
Mentor UK hledá dobrovolníky, kteří by pomohli udržovat aktuální znalosti o prevenci a vzdělávání v oblasti alkoholu a drog v komunitním, rodinném a školním prostředí.
Role bude zahrnovat výzkum rolí a psaní briefů, které přispějí k...
Evaluating Early Help: A Guide to Evaluation of Complex Local Early Help Systems
This guide seeks to improve the evaluation of early help by setting out some principles that could help places to make progress in evaluating local services.
STAD v Evropě Manuál
Příručka pro komunity, které zabraňují škodám souvisejícím s alkoholem.
Program jihovýchodní Asie o protidrogové politice 2019
Release, britské centrum odborných znalostí v oblasti drogového a protidrogového práva, s hrdostí zve k podávání přihlášek do programu 2019 South East Asian Fellowship Program on Drug Policy. Fellows budou hostit na Release v Londýně ve Velké Británii.
Webinar: Supporting Frontline Workers with Key Information and Resources about Ice
This webinar provides information about:
- How crystal methamphetamine affects people and communities
- Worker safety and preventing, managing and recovering from ice-related critical incidents
- The impacts of using ice with alcohol and...
Alcohol and Older People
The Swedish Society of Medicine, the Swedish Society of Nursing and IOGT-NTO have come together to produce a report on the elderly’s increased sensitivity to the effects of alcohol which, may increase the risk of disease and accidents, even at relatively low consumption levels.
Výzva k provedení výzkumu
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Drug and Alcohol Task Force ve spolupráci s Southside Partnership a Dublin Rathdown Community Addiction Team vyzývá příspěvky od vhodně kvalifikovaných stran k provedení výzkumného projektu , který má být zahájen v...
