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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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Prevenzione, trattamento, cura e supporto per le persone che fanno uso di farmaci stimolanti per l'HIV
Dall'inizio dell'epidemia di HIV, l'attenzione sulla prevenzione, il trattamento e la cura dell'HIV tra le persone che fanno uso di droghe si è concentrata sulle esigenze delle persone che si iniettano droghe e principalmente su quelle che...
Sistema di allarme rapido dell'UE sulle NSP - Poster
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Questo poster, presentato durante la IX Conferenza internazionale sulle NPS (24-26 ottobre 2022, Panama), illustra alcuni dei lavori del sistema di allarme rapido dell'UE sulle nuove sostanze psicoattive. Gestito dall'OEDT , in...
Opinion Piece: Imperativi morali e uso di droghe - Driver per il cambiamento
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