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Strengthening Prevention Through Quality Standards: The Example of the European Drug Prevention Quality Standards (EDPQS)
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gambling in Europe
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted Europe‘s gambling market, reshaping consumer behaviour, market structure, and regulatory priorities. Restrictions on land-based venues and the cancellation of major sporting events accelerated a...
Ecological Momentary Assessment and Ecological Momentary Interventions in Substance Use Disorders Recovery
INTRODUCTION: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) can capture fluctuations in an individual’s recovery while minimizing recall bias by collecting real-time data in daily life. Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs) build on EMA to...
Towards Comprehensive Sexuality Education in the Czech Republic: A Qualitative Study of Practitioners‘ Perspectives on Key Themes and Methods
INTRODUCTION: This study explores the perspectives of Czech practitioners on sexuality education (SE) for upper primary school students (ISCED level 2). It focuses on the topics they consider relevant, including those currently...
Alcohol Labelling: Czech Expert Perspectives and Recommendations
INTRODUCTION: Consumption of alcohol has significant influence on the physical and mental health of the Czech population. Nevertheless, public awareness of alcohol-related consequences in the Czech Republic remains inadequate. One potential...
Prevalencia y caracterización de pacientes con historia de consumo de sustancias de abuso en una unidad de medicina intensiva en Uruguay en 2013 y 2023
Resumen
Introducción: El consumo de sustancias de abuso es una problemática central en salud pública a nivel nacional e internacional. El perfil de los consumidores ha cambiado en los últimos años, específicamente tras la pandemia de COVID...
INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY IN RECOVERY
The reality that recovery from substance use disorders (SUD) can emerge through multiple pathways and not be linear, too, was powerfully demonstrated during the January Pathways to Progress Summit hosted by the 1:11 Project Africa at...
Prevention Unpacked with Dr. Zili Sloboda: Vision, Legacy & The Future of Prevention Pt.4
Huduma ya Tiba Saidizi kwa uraibu wa afyuni: Nafasi ya Asasi za Kiraia
Personal Liberation Journey: A Case Study Through a Decolonial Development Perspective
This case study explores how domestic power dynamics can function as micro‑colonial systems, mirroring the hierarchy, control, and dependency found in colonial structures. After marriage, the author experienced restricted mobility...
Personal Liberation Journey: A Case Study Through a Decolonial Development Perspective
Quality Rights materials for training, guidance and transformation
Overview
As part of the QualityRights Initiative, WHO has developed a comprehensive package of training and guidance materials. The materials can be used to build capacity among mental health practitioners, people with psychosocial...
WHO QualityRights module on transforming services & promoting rights
The goal of this module is to provide training and guidance for mental health and social services on how to transform and improve services towards a recovery-oriented approach which respects human rights. This module contains two...
Community mental health centres Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
Executive summary
Mental health has received increased attention over the last decade from governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and multilateral organizations including the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank. With...
The power of people who use drugs as mass media influencers in changing public opinion during the global overdose epidemic
Background
Thousands of people have lost their lives due to overdose-related fatalities linked to the potent synthetic opioid epidemic, as mortalities increase annually. British Columbia (B.C.) Canada has been an exception, where the...
Adolescent community reinforcement approach in secure care for adolescents with substance use and serious norm-violating behaviour: a randomised feasibility trial
Abstract
Background Adolescents placed in state-run secure youth homes (by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care) due to substance misuse and serious norm-violating behaviour (including offending) are in pressing need of...
Buprenorphine initiation from fentanyl using low-dose intramuscular ketamine: a pilot study
Abstract
Background
Buprenorphine is an effective medication for treating opioid use disorder but is underutilized partly due to patient apprehensiveness of the severe withdrawal symptoms it can induce when started, particularly by...
AHMAD SHAH
From a U.S.-supported exchange to global leadership, Ahmed Shah’s journey shows how international exposure can create lasting impact.
An Emerging Leaders of Pakistan (ELP) 2013 alumnus, Ahmed turned his exchange experience into a career...
Prevention Unpacked with Dr. Zili Sloboda: Workforce, Capacity & Global Development Pt.3
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