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Resiliency, Substance Use & Sustainable Development Goals
A brief foray into the entangled issues of both growing culture and personal irresilience and the intersection of substance use and the growing environmental fragility.
"All the evidence is in and we now know Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD)...
Prevention Plus Wellness Programs Include SBIRT Protocol
Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs, like the SPORT, Marijuana, Vaping, Opioid and InShape PPW programs for adolescents and young adults include materials and directions for implementation as an optional Screening, Brief Intervention...
Looking Back: A retirement interview with Jeff Lee
Can a "treatment specialist" also be seen as a "prevention specialist" and vice versa?
National Prevention Week 2024
The National Prevention Week planning and promotional materials were created to help your ongoing prevention efforts. You can help raise awareness about the importance of positive mental health and substance misuse prevention by hosting...
Dreaming Up or Dreaming Off: Re-engaging the Keys for Sound Personhood in the AOD Context.
Abstract
Personhood is a profound and complex mix of Agency, Capacity, Personality, Knowledge and Experience. However, there are many factors and elements that mold and craft that personhood for better or the worse. We posit, as a rule...
Progress and Promise: 2024 Begins for ISSUP Philippines
The beginning of 2024 shows promise for the ISSUP Philippine Chapter as it continues to work in the background to bring its planned events and activities into fruition. In the month of January, representatives met with various organizations...
Civil society submission and appearance to the Health and Trade Committees of the Parliament of Uganda.
Since inception in 2009, Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance (UAPA) has actively collaborated with various government and stakeholders, including Parliamentarians, the Ministry of Health, Uganda Cancer Institute, the Ministry of Education and...
Mental Well-Being and Addictions: An Insight into the Migration Phenomenon through Health
Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ), host institution of the ISSUP Mexico Chapter, carries out various activities related to the challenges of migration.
On this occasion we share an article that is part of the International News...
Adicciones y bienestar mental: una mirada al fenómeno migratorio a través de la salud
Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ) institución anfitriona del Capítulo ISSUP México, lleva a cabo diversas actividades relacionadas con los desafíos de la migración.
En esta ocasión compartimos un artículo que forma parte de la ...
The WHO ASSIST package for hazardous and harmful substance use
The ASSIST package, which consists of a brief questionnaire, a guide for health professionals on how to use the questionnaire in detecting and responding to substance use and also a self-help manual for cutting down or stopping substance...
Build your Expertise: Five Benefits of Universal Treatment Curriculum Self-Led Courses
Pediatric Cannabis Poisoning Stakeholder Toolkit Cannabis
Recent research has revealed an increase in child hospitalisations resulting from accidental cannabis poisoning in various regions of Canada. Toddlers find cannabis edibles enticing due to their resemblance to common treats like candies...
Centros de Integración Juvenil participates in the 66th Commission on Narcotic Drugs
La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (UNODC) celebró la 66 Sesión de la Comisión de Estupefacientes (CND), donde participó como institución observadora de los Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ), miembro de la...
Centros de Integración Juvenil participa en la 66o Comisión de Estupefacientes
La Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (ONUDD), llevó a cabo el 66.° Periodo de Sesiones de la Comisión de Estupefacientes (CND, por sus siglas en inglés), donde Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ) participó como...
How the media can play its part in reducing the stigma surrounding substance use
In this blogpost, produced by academics from the University of Stirling, the authors discuss the See Beyond – See the Lives – Scotland campaign, which involves the stories of those left behind after losing a loved one to alcohol and drug...
UTC Self-Led Courses Available in English & Spanish!
Expand your knowledge of #treatment and #prevention for substance use disorders - Sign Up today for a UTC self-led course. UTC Courses 1-4 & 6-8 are now available in English & Spanish. Click here for more information: https://lnkd.in/gMT...
Guideline for peer-to-peer workers with opioid use disorder who receive opioid agonist therapy.
I am pleased to present to you the result of the work of our large team: the third version of the guide for peer consultants who work with people who received opioid agonist therapy.
In the guide, we tried to describe our four-year...
Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth
The report provides behavioural health professionals, researchers, policymakers and other audiences with a comprehensive research overview and accurate information about effective and ineffective therapeutic practices related to youth of...
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