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Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
The Licensing Act (2003): Its Uses and Abuses 10 Years on
Seen as excluding health concerns and requiring an individualistic and ‘premises by premises’ approach, interviews with stakeholders and a revisiting of the 2003 Licensing Act for England and Wales suggest it could nevertheless be used to...
Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel
Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.
This is compared with around one third of the average population.
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...
Standar Pengetahuan untuk Ilmu Pencegahan
Diterbitkan oleh Society for Prevention Research pada tahun 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention adalah dokumen penting bagi mereka yang bekerja dalam pencegahan penggunaan zat.
Dengan tujuan memprofesionalkan bidang...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management
There is no more important document for doctors treating problem drug use in the UK than the so-called ‘Orange guidelines’. This major update will substantially inform judgements of what constitutes acceptable medical practice - should...
UK Health Professionals Call for Minimum Unit Pricing of Alcohol in England
Senior health professionals are calling for Westminster to introduce minimum unit pricing of alcohol and clampdown on drinks advertising in England.
They claim that within the next five years up to 63,000 people across the country will die...
ISSUP di Forum Internasional Penyalahgunaan Narkoba Tahunan ke-22
Forum Internasional National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ke-22 diadakan di Montreal, Kanada dari tanggal 16 - 19 Juni 2017.
Advertising of Tobacco Products at Point of Sale: Who Are More Exposed in Brazil?
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Objective: To describe the adult population perception of cigarette advertising at point of sale, according to their tobacco use status and socio-demographic characteristics such as sex, age, race/color, region, household location...
Physicians’ Views on the Role of Smoking in Smoking-Related Diseases
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Background
Previous reports have shown that physicians who smoke underestimate the effects of smoking on health and this influences their practice. This study was designed to investigate the views of Estonian physicians on the...
Study Finds Increased Cannabis Use among Certain US States
Over the last few decades, the United States has entered a new phase in its cannabis control policies.
As of November 2016, 28 US states and Washington, D.C. had legalised cannabis use for medicinal purposes.
Eight of these and Washington...
Inisiatif pendanaan di bidang kebijakan obat: panggilan untuk proposal
Program Keadilan untuk periode 2014 hingga 2020 yang ditetapkan oleh Peraturan (UE) No 1382/2013 dari Parlemen Eropa dan Dewan pada 17 Desember 2013, dan khususnya Art. 4 dan 6 (1), menguraikan sebagai tujuan khusus dukungan inisiatif di...
Efektivitas Kebijakan Anti-Merokok Pemerintah terhadap Pemuda Non-Merokok di Korea
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Tujuan: Sejak Undang-Undang Promosi Kesehatan diperkenalkan di Korea pada tahun 1995, kebijakan dan peraturan anti-merokok telah mengalami banyak revisi, dan area bebas rokok secara bertahap diperluas. Tujuan dari penelitian ini...
Strategi Narkoba Inggris 2017
Pemerintah Inggris hari ini merilis strategi obat barunya. Ini adalah dokumen semacam itu pertama dalam tujuh tahun. Strategi ini berfokus pada empat untaian termasuk mengurangi permintaan, membatasi pasokan, membangun pemulihan, dan...
Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Proses Kebijakan Pengendalian Tembakau di Mesir dan Iran
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Perkenalan
Kebijakan pengendalian tembakau sangat penting untuk mengatasi meningkatnya konsumsi tembakau yang terlihat di Wilayah Mediterania Timur, satu-satunya kontributor terbesar yang dapat dicegah untuk epidemi penyakit tidak...
Moving Thailand’s Mountain of Alcohol-Related Harm
Few low- and middle-income countries have done so much to protect their citizens from alcohol-related harms, but Thailand still faces challenges. Apiradee Treerutkuarkul reports.
Today Thailand is one of the few developing countries with...
Membangun Kebijakan Smart Cannabis dari Science Up
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Sikap sosial dan norma budaya seputar masalah penyalahgunaan zat bergeser dengan cepat di seluruh dunia, yang mengarah pada konsekuensi yang kompleks dan tidak dapat diprediksi. Di sisi positif, upaya untuk lebih intens menyebarkan...
Alkohol dan Ganja: Membandingkan Efek Kesehatan yang Merugikan dan Rezim Pengaturan
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Klaim bahwa efek kesehatan yang merugikan dari ganja jauh lebih serius daripada alkohol telah menjadi pusat kasus legalisasi ganja. Regulator di negara bagian AS yang telah melegalkan ganja telah mengadopsi model peraturan...
2017 UNODC World Drug Report
Now in its 20th year of publication, the UNODC World Drug Report for 2017 is now available.
It consists of 5 accessible booklets:
Booklet 1 provides a summary of the subsequent 4 booklets. It also discusses the policy implications of the...
Marijuana on the Mind? The Impact of Marijuana on Cognition, Brain Structure, and Brain Function, and Related Public Policy Implications
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Although marijuana (MJ) has been used for thousands of years, the public’s opinion of MJ has shifted drastically over the past century, leaving many wondering about its potential risks and benefits. This article summarizes researc...