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Prevention
Evidence-informed strategies and interventions designed to reduce the likelihood of substance use and related harms. Prevention efforts aim to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors at the individual, family, community, and societal levels. These approaches may include education, family and school-based programmes, community initiatives, and policies that promote healthy environments. Prevention can be universal (targeting entire populations), selective (targeting groups at higher risk), or indicated (targeting individuals already showing early signs of risk). By addressing the factors that influence substance use before problems develop or escalate, prevention plays a key role in comprehensive responses to substance use disorders and related social and health challenges.
Substance Use and Health Competencies for All Prescribers
Developed by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), the Workforce Competencies provide an evidence-informed framework outlining the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours needed by professionals working in substance...
Rehabilitation and Re-entry Programmes for Justice-Involved Individuals and Their Effectiveness in Social Reintegration: A Systematic Review
Prison rehabilitation and community re-entry programmes implemented during incarceration or in the transitional period serve as significant mechanisms for facilitating justice-involved individuals in their post-release adaptation. This...
The Changing Approach to Addiction — From Incarceration to Treatment and Recovery Support
It’s been more than 50 years since the United States launched a “war on drugs.” History has demonstrated the ineffectiveness of “tough-oncrime” drug-use policies, including laws requiring mandatory minimum sentencing for possession of...
Community-based substance use treatment programs for reentering justice-involved adults: A scoping review
Introduction:
For adults involved with the criminal justice system who are reentering their communities postincarceration, there is a large need for community-based substance use treatment. Little is known, however, about the types...
The product may not be what it says: What emerging synthetic drugs and dangerous mixtures mean for practice
The clearest message from our recent ISSUP Global webinar was a simple but important one: we should stop assuming that an unregulated drug product contains only what it is sold as containing. That uncertainty now has direct implications for prevention, clinical care, recovery support, toxicology, law enforcement, policy and the administration of justice.
Building Safer Communities: The Role of Community Policing in Substance Use, Violence and Crime Prevention in Uganda
ISSUP Uganda presents its webinar, " Building Safer Communities: The Role of Community Policing in Substance Use, violence and Crime Prevention in Uganda"
The Role of Faith Communities in Addressing Substance Use and Crime – Reading List (Part 2)
In this second reading list, we continue exploring the growing evidence on the role and contribution of faith communities and faith-based organisations in addressing substance use and crime, with a particular focus on treatment engagement...
Spirituality and Harmful or Hazardous Alcohol and Other Drug Use
This meta-analysis synthesises evidence from 55 longitudinal studies involving more than 540,000 participants to examine the relationship between spirituality and harmful or hazardous alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. The findings...
Association Between Religiosity and Spirituality and Cocaine Use: A Systematic Review
This systematic review examines the association between religiosity, spirituality, and cocaine use by analysing findings from 20 observational studies involving adults and adolescents. Most studies found that higher levels of religiosity...
Behavioural Addiction among Youths: Patterns and Innovative strategies for Prevention
ISSUP Nigeria presents the 34th session of its bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic 'Behavioural Addiction among Youths: Patterns and Innovative strategies for Prevention'.
Youth Narratives Concerning Drug Trafficking in Sinaloa: Joining, Risks, and Plans
This qualitative study explores the experiences of young people involved in drug trafficking in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Based on interviews with 16 young adults, the research examines why they joined drug trafficking, how they perceived...
Manual de la Pastoral Latinoamericana de Acompañamiento y Prevención de las Adicciones
Nos complace compartir el lanzamiento del Manual de Pastoral de Adicciones, una iniciativa desarrollada por la Pastoral Latinoamericana de las Adicciones (PLAPA) y el CELAM.
Este manual ofrece una guía pastoral para la prevención, el...
Protecting Youth from Mexican Drug Cartel Recruitment: The Prospects of Educational Interventions
This investigation considers the impact of Mexico’s War on Drugs since 2006 and the influence of widespread cartel networks on the youth population. As both victims and perpetrators of drug-related crime, the young individuals of Mexico are...
Recruitment of minors into organised crime
The recruitment of minors into serious and organised crime has increasingly become a tactic used by criminal networks to avoid detection, capture and prosecution. By using minors, the criminal networks increase the distance between the...
Addressing the recruitment of young people into criminal drugs networks
This report examines how and why young people are recruited into criminal drug networks across Europe. It highlights the range of factors that can increase vulnerability to recruitment, including social and economic disadvantage, peer...
Faith-Based Interventions for Reducing Gang Violence in the Caribbean: Reflections from a Professor and a Priest
This book chapter explores the role of faith-based interventions in preventing and reducing gang violence in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing on the experiences of a criminologist and a religious leader, it argues that gang violence should be...
The Association Between Religiosity and Substance Use Patterns Among Women Involved in the Criminal Justice System
This study explores the relationship between religiosity and substance use patterns among women involved in the criminal justice system. Using data from women participating in a drug court programme in the United States, the researchers...
Religiosity and crime: Evidence from a city-wide shock
This study examines the relationship between religiosity and crime using data from the 2015 visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia. By analysing daily crime reports before, during, and after the visit, the researchers found a significant...
The Role of Faith Communities in Addressing Substance Use and Crime – Reading List (Part 1)
In this reading list, we provide resources exploring the role of faith communities and faith-based organisations in addressing substance use, crime, violence and related social harms. Faith-based strategies draw on spiritual values...
Innovation and Action: Youth Voices in SUD Prevention and Treatment in Africa
ISSUP Global presents a webinar on: Innovation and Action: Youth Voices in Substance Use Prevention and Treatment in Africa