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Alcohol Interventions in Primary Care Settings: What Works, What Doesn’t and What's Next?
This week saw the seminar launch at Edinburgh’s Royal College of Physicians of two key reports on alcohol interventions in primary care settings published by the Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) in collaboration with the U...
La vita in recupero dalla dipendenza in Canada
Il Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) ha recentemente collaborato con il National Recovery Advisory Committee per produrre il primo sondaggio canadese sulle persone in recupero dalla tossicodipendenza e / o dall'alcolismo...
European Drug Report 2017
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Il costo sociale del disturbo da uso di eroina negli Stati Uniti
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Obiettivo
Il consumo di eroina negli Stati Uniti ha raggiunto proporzioni epidemiche. L'obiettivo di questo documento è stimare il costo sociale annuale del disturbo da uso di eroina negli Stati Uniti in dollari USA 2015.
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...Preventing Violence Through Alcohol Consumption Reduction Measures
The World Health Organization has released a series of briefings on violence prevention. Of particular interest is Chapter 3: Preventing Violence by Reducing Availability and Harmful Use of Alcohol.
‘Harmful use of alcohol is a major...
Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
How Do We Tackle the Opioid Epidemic?
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research presented...
"Does Red Bull Give Vodka Wings?"
New research that will be published in the new edition of the Journal of Consumer Psychology sets out to answer the question: ‘Does Red Bull Give Wings to Vodka?’
"Red Bull has long used the slogan 'Red Bull gives you wings,' but our...
ATTC White Paper: Preparing Students to Work in Integrated Health Care Systems
A recently published White Paper by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre Newtork (ATTC) starts with the premise that the substance use disorder (SUD) prevention, treatment and recovery workforce is currently undergoing an evolution as a...
The Effects of Psychoactive Substances on Driving
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) has released a new report detailing possible effects of psychoactive prescription drugs while driving. The study was carried out with the effort to inform policy decisions aimed at reducing the...
US Adult Illicit Cannabis Use, Cannabis Use Disorder, and Medical Marijuana Laws 1991-1992 to 2012-2013
IMPORTANCE: Over the last 25 years, illicit cannabis use and cannabis use disorders have increased among US adults, and 28 states have passed medical marijuana laws (MML). Little is known about MML and adult illicit cannabis use or cannabis...
Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Mandatory Assessment for Arrestees Does Not Cut Crime
Further evidence from England that the ‘Tough Choices’ schemes which force people arrested for certain offences to be tested for heroin or cocaine use and if positive to be assessed for treatment do not pay back in terms of treatment...
Reducing Opioid-Related Deaths in the UK
Robust messages for the government from the UK’s official drug policy advisers:
- Ageing profile of multiply-ill heroin users will continue to press up drug-related deaths.
- To counteract this pressure government must maintain investment...
ISSUP alla 60a sessione della Commissione sugli stupefacenti
All'inizio di questa settimana ISSUP ha partecipato alla 60a sessione della Commissione sugli stupefacenti (CND) presso il Centro internazionale di Vienna.
Valutazione delle comunità che si prendono cura (CTC)
"Coalizioni comunitarie" è una strategia preventiva che coordina le attività e le risorse per ridurre il consumo di sostanze e i comportamenti delinquenziali tra gli adolescenti, mobilitando le comunità nella promozione di iniziative...
Good Policy and Practice in Health Education
Booklet 10: Education sector responses to the use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs
The latest volume in the Good Policy and Practice in Health Education Series has been developed via international consultation between the United Nations...
Oltre le sigarette: i rischi dei prodotti a base di nicotina non sigaretta e le implicazioni per il controllo del tabacco
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Mentre si sa molto sugli effetti dell'uso del tabacco, lo stato attuale delle conoscenze relative ai prodotti a base di nicotina non da sigaretta, come i sistemi elettronici di rilascio della nicotina (sigarette elettroniche e altri...
Droghe sintetiche in aumento in Afghanistan
I sequestri di metanfetamina sono aumentati in Afghanistan, secondo un nuovo rapporto dell'agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per la droga e il crimine. Suggerisce anche che il farmaco viene prodotto all'interno del paese.
L'Ufficio delle Nazioni...
Rapporto 2017 sulla strategia internazionale di controllo degli stupefacenti
Questa settimana il Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) ha pubblicato pubblicamente l'International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) del 2017, un rapporto annuale del Dipartimento di Stato al...
