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Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Algorithm May Expose Thousands of Under-18s to Harmful Targeted Adverts
A recent study, conducted by the Guardian and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, has revealed that Facebook has marked hundreds of thousands of children as “interested in” adverts about gambling and alcohol.
Facebook gains information...
What is the Link Between Unemployment and Alcohol Use?
Youth unemployment has remained stable at a high-level in many countries over the past several decades.
Over the same period, evidence has emerged which suggests that unemployment can negatively affect an individual’s mental and physical...
Marketing of Heated Tobacco Products in the Czech Republic - The Role of Social Media
Over the years, there has been a global decline in tobacco consumption, and countries have made significant progress in developing evidence-based and cost-effective tobacco control measures. As a result, tobacco industries have had to...
Peningkatan pengetahuan pembuat kebijakan Indonesia tentang sifat, pencegahan dan pengobatan gangguan penggunaan narkoba
30 pembuat kebijakan dari Kementerian Sosial Indonesia, Badan Narkotika Nasional (BNN), Kementerian Kesehatan, Kementerian Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia, Kementerian Dalam Negeri, dan entitas lainnya berpartisipasi dalam lokakarya tiga hari...
Free Webinar: Practical Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention
Webinar Objectives:
- Examine evidence-based & evidence-informed substance use Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) screening & brief interventions
- List differences between typical substance use prevention and Prevention Plus Wellness programs ...
GISA Organises National TOT on UPC School Based Track in Nigeria
GISA Organises National Training of Trainers on UPC School Based Track in Nigeria
Between July 9 and 18th 2019, Global Initiative on Substance Abuse (GISA) in collaboration with the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme and the Bureau of...
Monitoring the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis as a Public Health Threat in Europe
This technical report focuses on an elimination barometer for viral hepatitis to help countries assess progress towards eliminating hepatitis C and B among people who inject drugs (PWID).
The barometer is being developed by the EMCDDA...
Depresi dan Pesta Minuman Keras di antara Pasangan dan Pasangan Militer
Diakui bahwa konsumsi alkohol berbahaya lebih umum di antara mereka yang pernah bertugas di angkatan bersenjata Inggris.
Namun ini bukan hanya masalah bagi individu yang telah bertugas di ketentaraan. Dalam sebuah studi baru-baru ini yang...
Konsumsi alkohol Rusia
Dalam hal konsumsi alkohol global, Rusia secara konsisten dianggap sebagai salah satu negara dengan rekam jejak konsumsi alkohol berat tertinggi.
Namun, angka terbaru telah menemukan konsumsi alkohol Rusia telah menurun sebesar 43% dari...
European Prevention Curriculum
This week the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the European Prevention Curriculum - a handbook designed for decision, opinion and policy makers in science-based prevention of substance use. The...
Perangkat Standar Kualitas Pencegahan Obat Eropa
Si Standar Kualitas Pencegahan Obat Eropa telah ditetapkan untuk menyediakan seperangkat kriteria komprehensif untuk membantu pengguna mempelajari cara mengenali kegiatan pencegahan 'berkualitas tinggi', menguraikan aspek struktural dan...
Prevention of Drug-Related Deaths
Opioids are a class of drugs that act on the nervous system to produce feelings of pleasure and pain relief. Opioids have a high potential for causing addiction in some people and can cause life-threatening health problems, including the...
Criminal Justice Continuum for Opioid Users at Risk of Overdose
Worldwide, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of opioid-involved overdose deaths.
Certain sections of the population are more vulnerable to the risk of developing opioid use disorder and overdosing. One such group are those in...
Penggunaan Pengobatan Yang Dibantu Obat untuk Gangguan Penggunaan Opioid dalam Pengaturan Peradilan Pidana
Keberhasilan pengobatan dan pemulihan individu dengan gangguan penggunaan opioid (OUD) dapat bervariasi. Paling sering, kombinasi faktor menambah kompleksitas untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas layanan dan intervensi.
Di seluruh dunia...
EDPQS Toolkit 4: Adaptasi dan Diseminasi
Standar Kualitas Pencegahan Obat Eropa telah 
ditetapkan untuk memberikan seperangkat kriteria komprehensif untuk membantu pengguna mempelajari cara mengenali kegiatan pencegahan 'berkualitas tinggi', menguraikan aspek struktural dan...
EDPQS Toolkit 3: Training
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been 
established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural...
EDPQS Toolkit 2: Self-Assessment & Reflection
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been 
established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural...
EDPQS Toolkit 1: Funding & Decision-Making
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a 
comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural...
SPR 2020 Call for Papers Now Open!
This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution...
Call for Abstracts - NIDA International SPR Poster Session
The International Program and the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will host the 13th Annual NIDA International SPR Poster Session at the SPR 28th Annual Meeting in...