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Prevention
Evidence-informed strategies and interventions designed to reduce the likelihood of substance use and related harms. Prevention efforts aim to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors at the individual, family, community, and societal levels. These approaches may include education, family and school-based programmes, community initiatives, and policies that promote healthy environments. Prevention can be universal (targeting entire populations), selective (targeting groups at higher risk), or indicated (targeting individuals already showing early signs of risk). By addressing the factors that influence substance use before problems develop or escalate, prevention plays a key role in comprehensive responses to substance use disorders and related social and health challenges.
Higher Taxes Needed to Lower Smoking Rates in South Asia
New research published in The British Medical Journal supports the need to increase taxes on tobacco products in South Asia, suggesting that doing so could reduce consumption by at least 1/3 and, in turn, avoid around 35 - 45 million...
What Is There to Know About Psychosocial Interventions in Drug Treatment?
Psychosocial interventions are psychological or social interventions used to tackle issues related to substance abuse and behavioural addictions. They can be employed to identify and treat problems, as well as to assist with user...
New Publication: EMCDDA’s Prevention of Addictive Behaviours
An updated version of the publication Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is now available in English. Global in scope, it provides an up-to-date review of prevention science...
Global Smoking Rates on Decline Thanks to Demand-Reduction Measures
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
ISSUP Mexico 2017
At the beginning of April ISSUP’s Deputy Executive Director, Joanna Travis-Roberts, headed to Cancún, Mexico to plan for this year’s Annual ISSUP Workshop.
Πρότυπα και βέλτιστες πρακτικές θεραπείας του ΕΚΠΝΤ
Ανακαλύψτε τι λειτουργεί (και τι όχι) στους τομείς της πρόληψης των ναρκωτικών, της θεραπείας και της κοινωνικής επανένταξης.
Characteristics of Fentanyl Overdose — Massachusetts, 2014–2016
Summary
What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths.
What is added by this report?
Approximately two thirds of...
Background on Alcohol Marketing Regulation and Monitoring for the Protection of Public Health
This document provides evidence for arguments supporting alcohol marketing regulation, and suggests key elements that can be considered by countries in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating effective regulation. It also...
Η αυξανόμενη ανάγκη αντιμετώπισης της χρήσης νέων ψυχοδραστικών ουσιών
Μια πρόσφατη εργασία που δημοσιεύθηκε στο International Journal of Drug Policy εξετάζει τις τρέχουσες αντιδράσεις στον τομέα της υγείας σε νέες ψυχοδραστικές ουσίες (NPS), επισημαίνοντας βασικά ζητήματα για την ενημέρωση του σχεδιασμού και...
Περιορισμένες ευκαιρίες; Φροντίδα ατόμων με διαταραχές χρήσης ουσιών
Σύμφωνα με μια νέα μελέτη, οι περισσότεροι επαγγελματίες υγείας έχουν λίγες ευκαιρίες να μάθουν για την κατάχρηση ουσιών σε εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα πριν από την υπηρεσία.
ISSUP at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Earlier this week ISSUP attended the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) at the Vienna International Centre.
Αξιολόγηση κοινοτήτων που νοιάζονται (CTC)
Οι «κοινοτικοί συνασπισμοί» είναι μια προληπτική στρατηγική που συντονίζει τις δραστηριότητες και τους πόρους για τη μείωση της χρήσης ουσιών από εφήβους και της παραβατικής συμπεριφοράς, κινητοποιώντας τις κοινότητες για την προώθηση...
Preventing and Treating Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued a new evidence-based guideline for combatting tobacco use by children and young adults aged 5 – 18, suggesting that physicians ought to have a more active role in the prevention...
Can Drug Prevention Programmes Reduce Substance Use by Participants’ Friends?
Besides reducing substance use between its participants one prevention programme also reduced drug use among the friends of those who took part.
Great Resources for Teachers
Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...
Drug Misuse Prevention: Targeted Interventions
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released guidelines that cover targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, ‘legal highs’ and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or...
Φάρμακα στον εγκέφαλο: Νευρολογικές σαρώσεις προβλέπουν μελλοντική χρήση ουσιών
Μια νέα μελέτη που δημοσιεύθηκε στο περιοδικό Nature διαπίστωσε ότι οι σαρώσεις εγκεφάλου μπορούν να προβλέψουν εάν οι έφηβοι θα αναπτύξουν συμπεριφορές λήψης ναρκωτικών αργότερα στη ζωή τους.
Αξιολογήθηκε δείγμα 14χρονων. Η έρευνα...
Ύπνος και χρήση ουσιών: Ποιος είναι ο σύνδεσμος;
Μια νέα μελέτη αναφέρει μια σχέση μεταξύ της ημερήσιας κόπωσης και της κατανάλωσης αλκοόλ, μαζί με τις σχετικές βλάβες, στο μέλλον.
Counselling Parents and Teens about Marijuana Use in the Era of Legalisation of Marijuana
Abstract
Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...
Καλύτερη μνήμη εργασίας, λιγότερος πειρασμός: Κατάχρηση ουσιών και νευρο-μηχανισμοί
Νέα έρευνα που δημοσιεύθηκε στο περιοδικό Addiction δείχνει ότι η κακή μνήμη εργασίας και η αδυναμία ελέγχου των παρορμήσεων κατά την εφηβεία είναι βασικοί προγνωστικοί παράγοντες για μελλοντική κατάχρηση ουσιών. Η «μνήμη εργασίας»...