Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment (SWAAT) is a National Drugs Strategy Strand 2 Strategic Health Initiative which aims to build community capacity to support women to access treatment and recovery from drug and alcohol use across the Tallaght and Ballyfermot LDATF areas. Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in assessing the extent and nature of the drug problem and in initiating appropriate responses so that there is a coordinated approach involving all sectors in addressing problematic drug and alcohol use in local communities.

Summary of findings:

• Prior exposure to...

Sfondo:

Il fumo di tabacco e l'uso di sigarette elettroniche sono fortemente associati, ma al momento non è chiaro se questa associazione sia causale o dovuta a fattori condivisi che influenzano entrambi i comportamenti come una responsabilità genetica condivisa. Lo scopo di questo studio era quello di indagare se i punteggi di rischio poligenico (PRS) per l'iniziazione al fumo sono associati all'uso di sigarette elettroniche.

Metodi e risultati:

I PRS di iniziazione al fumo sono stati calcolati per i giovani adulti (N = 7.859, età media = 24 anni, 51% maschi) di ascendenza europea nell...

In che modo la pandemia di COVID-19 ha influito sull'uso e sull'offerta di droga? Quali farmaci stanno causando la maggiore preoccupazione oggi? Quali sono le ultime tendenze nella produzione e nel traffico di droga?

Scopri di più nella registrazione dell'evento mediatico online del 9 giugno 2021 in occasione del lancio della relazione europea sulla droga 2021: tendenze e sviluppi. Sulla base dei dati provenienti da 29 paesi (UE 27, Turchia e Norvegia), la relazione fornisce la panoramica più recente della situazione della droga in Europa.

Summary

This report provides a technical review of the current body of knowledge regarding new benzodiazepines that are monitored by the EU Early Warning System.

The aims of this report are to strengthen situational awareness of new benzodiazepines in Europe and to help stakeholders prepare for and respond to public health and social threats caused by such substances.

The European Commission announces today the first edition of the Horizon Europe info-days, to take place online from 28 June  to 9 July 2021.

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion.

The 10-day event will give the opportunity to prospective applicants, and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation, to receive information and ask questions about the novelties, main funding instruments and processes of Horizon Europe.

The Horizon Europe info-days will address 9 themes, each featuring a programme of exclusive...

The VNGOC together with the UNODC Civil Society Unit will be holding two webinars to present and discuss the World Drug Report 2021, which will be launched on 25th June.
 
VNGOC are looking for civil society speakers wishing to present at these webinars, on how they use the data compiled in the World Drug Report each year and how these data impact their work. 

• The first webinar will be held on 13th July 2021 and will focus on Asia, Oceania and Europe.
• The second webinar will be held on 15th July 2021 and will focus on Africa and the Americas. 

Each webinar will comprise welcome remarks...

Introduction

Analysing communal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products in order to estimate their consumption in the community is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including analytical chemistry, physiology and biochemistry, sewage engineering, spatial epidemiology and statistics, and conventional drug epidemiology.

This page, put together by EMCDDA, presents the findings from studies since 2011. Data from all studies may be explored through an interactive tool, and a detailed an analayis of the findings of the most recent study in 2020...

Fonte: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/13745/TD0321143ENN_002.pdf

Sommario

Dall'inizio del 2020, la pandemia di COVID-19 ha avuto un impatto drammatico sul nostro modo di vivere, con i paesi europei che hanno dovuto introdurre misure senza precedenti per proteggere la salute pubblica. Come in tutti gli ambiti della vita, il consumo di droga, i danni correlati e i mercati della droga sono stati colpiti, così come i servizi istituiti per rispondere ai problemi legati alla droga. Durante le prime settimane della pandemia, l'OEDT ha avviato due studi di valutazione...

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• To present results from studies carried out to collect insights from people who use drugs and service providers on how COVID-19 control measures have affected their lives, as well as the drug market 
• To discuss how some of the changes observed are worth becoming a ‘new normal’

Background: In April 2020, in the framework of the EU4Monitoring Drugs (EU4MD) project, two research teams launched a 6-month long cohort study among people who use drugs in Georgia and Ukraine. The aim was to document how the COVID-19 lockdown measures may impact their social-economic status, drug use...

L'OEDT pubblica oggi il terzo di una serie di rapidi studi "trendspotter" che esplorano l'impatto della COVID-19 sulla situazione della droga e le risposte ad essa. Riesaminando e rivedendo i risultati di due studi del 2020 sugli effetti della pandemia sull'uso  e sui servizi di droga, il rapporto identifica nuove tendenze e sviluppi che potrebbero avere implicazioni per la politica e la pratica.

La relazione esamina la situazione negli Stati membri dell'UE da giugno 2020 a febbraio 2021, in particolare i cambiamenti nei mercati della droga, i modelli di consumo, i danni e i servizi per la...

The journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy has published a special edition focussing on Drug experienced young people in contact with the Criminal Justice System.

The collection of papers examines young peoples' experiences of substance use and/or offending and their impression of the support they have received. The research also explores the consequences of restrictive drug policies.

The papers in this collection are based on research from the EU funded EPPIC project (Exchanging Prevention practices on Polydrug use among youth In Criminal justice systems).

This report presents the current status of alcohol consumption, alcohol-attributable harms and the implementation of alcohol control policies in the WHO European Region, using available data from 2010, 2016 and 2019.

A detailed overview is provided of the implementation of alcohol policies described in the 10 action areas of the European Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol 2012–2020 (EAPA), including the current status of implementation of the five action areas of the WHO-led SAFER initiative:

1. Strengthen restrictions on alcohol availability;
2. Advance and enforce drink–driving...