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Analysis of the Impact of Consumption Taxes on the Development of Alcohol Addiction in Selected OECD Countries and Slovakia
INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the governments of several countries around the world have focused on consumption taxes, which they use from two important points of view – the first point of view is the state budget, where through the...
World Drug Report 2023
How have governments communicated UK alcohol duty policy changes?
Pricing, including taxation, is a key tool to address harm from alcohol and is identified by the World Health Organization as a ‘best buy’ policy (meaning it is both effective in reducing harm and cost-effective). However alcohol was 72%...
L'implementazione degli standard di qualità (QS) presso la comunità terapeutica Coolmine
BACKGROUND: L'implementazione degli standard di qualità da parte di Coolmine comporta un periodo di gestione del cambiamento, pianificazione strategica e sviluppo di politiche nazionali.
METODI: Un caso di studio narrativo incentrato...
Quality Assurance Policy in Harm Reduction Services in the Czech Republic: A Case Study of a National System
BACKGROUND: In the field of harm reduction (HR), an established quality assurance system with implemented quality standards is rather rare in practice. Together with limited evidence in this area, this leads to an imbalance in the basic...
The Impact of Alcohol Availability Interventions
Interventions that restrict the availability of alcohol reduce the risk of harm. However, until now it has been unclear why this is the case.
In this research, the views of public health teams, police, local authority licensing teams and...
La matrice del rischio: decessi correlati alla droga nelle carceri in Inghilterra e Galles, 2015-2020
Cambiamenti nelle visite al pronto soccorso per la sindrome da iperemesi da cannabis a seguito della legalizzazione della cannabis ricreativa e successiva commercializzazione in Ontario, Canada
Astratto
Ricerche precedenti suggeriscono che la legalizzazione della cannabis ricreativa è associata ad aumenti della sindrome da iperemesi della cannabis (CHS), ma non è chiaro come la commercializzazione della cannabis (vale a dire...
No place for cheap alcohol: the potential value of minimum pricing for protecting lives
Overview
The WHO European Region has some of the highest levels of alcohol consumption and corresponding rates of alcohol-related harm in the world. Pricing policies and taxation are among the most effective measures that policy-makers...
Balance de una década de política de drogas: Avances y Retos
Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises: Settings in need of care for a comprehensive drug use prevention in Nigeria
Costs of an Alcohol Measurement Intervention in Three Latin American Countries
Abstract
Alcohol measurement in health care settings is an effective intervention for reducing alcohol-related harm. However, in many countries, costs related to alcohol measurement have not yet been transparently assessed, which may...
The prevalence of comorbid serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders in prison populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Novel Psychoactive Substances: Policy, Economics and Drug Regulation
In light of the recent emergence of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) on a global scale, this book provides a timely analysis of the social and economic impact of the NPS phenomenon, and of the global policy and regulatory responses to it...
Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health
Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health is a new international journal devoted to the rapid publication of authoritative papers on Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), Addiction and associated health phenomena.
The Journal has a...
New psychoactive substances: A review and updates
New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a diverse group of substances that are linked with a number of health and social harms on an individual and societal level. NPS toxicity and dependence syndromes are recognised in primary care...
I costi nascosti di Big Tobacco
L'impatto devastante del tabacco sulla salute dei consumatori è ben noto. Oltre agli effetti negativi per l'individuo, ci sono significative conseguenze economiche e ambientali, che devono essere considerate quando si sviluppano sforzi per...
Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion
This comprehensive report details the full extent of the way that alcohol is being marketed across national borders – often by digital means – and often regardless of the social, economic or cultural environment in receiving countries.
I...
Tailoring dissemination of evidence to preferences of tobacco control partners: results from an academic-community partnership
Background
Tobacco control program leaders may improve the use of evidence in program and policy development by presenting evidence to policymakers more often. However, current scientific knowledge regarding what works is slow to reach...
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