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The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
Families, Drugs and Alcohol - Policy and Research since 1984
The past 30 years has seen a huge amount of change in the policy, practice and politics around both families and drug/alcohol (‘substance’) use. Laws, behaviours and public perceptions have all altered substantially. As part of Adfam’s 30th...
Challenging Stigma: Tackling the Prejudice Experienced by Families of Drug and Alcohol Users
Stigma and drug use have been associated for a long time, and in recent years they have been popular topics of debate and the focus of a growing body of research. But in the same way that families have often been absent in other drug policy...
Becoming Visible: The Somali Community and Substance Use in London
In 2006 Adfam was awarded a three year grant by the Department for Communities and Local Government to work with the Somali community around substance use and family support in London. Becoming visible gives an overview of the issues...
Revisione del sistema di trattamento dell'abuso di droga in Inghilterra
La revisione recentemente pubblicata da Public Health England rivela che il sistema di trattamento dell'abuso di droga del paese sta funzionando bene. Tuttavia, ci sono ancora diversi settori che richiedono miglioramenti.
Tra i risultati...
Plans for a Smoke-Free Finland Gather Pace
Finland plans to cut consumption of tobacco products - in any form – to less than 2% among adults by 2040. As is the case with many industrialised countries, Finland’s smoking rates have decreased in recent years as a result of various...
New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers
This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free.
Service providers can...
Healthy Nightlife Toolbox - Risorse per creare ambienti di vita notturna più sicuri
L'Healthy Nightlife Toolbox (HNT) è un'iniziativa internazionale che si concentra sulla riduzione dei danni derivanti dall'uso di alcol e droghe tra i giovani.
L'Healthy Nightlife Toolbox raccoglie e fornisce informazioni sugli...
Risorsa gratuita per la valutazione degli interventi di prevenzione e trattamento della droga
La Banca degli strumenti di valutazione (BEI) è una banca dati online di risorse liberamente disponibili per valutare i programmi e le iniziative di prevenzione e trattamento della droga. È possibile cercare nell'archivio per tipo di...
Tobacco and Cancer: Epidemiology and New Perspectives of Prevention and Monitoring in Mexico
Tobacco smoking is a causal risk factor of at least 16 different types of cancer. In Mexico, smoking causes 6,035 premature deaths annually of lung cancer and 5,154 from other types. Additionally, 16,408 new smoking attributable cases are...
The Public Health Burden of Alcohol and the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Policies
This review was commissioned by the Department of Health, which asked Public Health England (PHE) to provide an overview of alcohol-related harm in England and possible policy solutions. The present report offers a broad and rigorous...
What is the Purpose of Community Alcohol Partnerships?
Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs) are local initiatives which aim to reduce alcohol-related harm. They involve forming partnerships between the drinks industry and local governments with a particular focus on alcohol abuse and anti...
Parental Socioeconomic Status and Teenage Smoking Rates: What's the Link?
In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?
This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at their...
Trattare la dipendenza da alcol con relazioni positive
Una "alleanza terapeutica", o in altre parole, una relazione positiva e di fiducia tra consulente e paziente, potrebbe essere la chiave per il successo del trattamento della dipendenza da alcol, secondo un nuovo studio. I pazienti che hanno...
ESPAD Report 2015
The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.
The latest...
Healthier Alternatives and Natural Highs: The Success of the Icelandic Model
Over the past two decades, Iceland has seen teenage smoking, drinking and drug use dramatically decrease. This is partly because of state-funded initiatives which look to promote healthier alternatives, or ‘natural highs’, such as sport, family-orientated activities and cultural provisions.
L'alcol trasforma il cervello in "modalità fame"
L'alcol ha un contenuto calorico molto elevato. Gli esperti, quindi, sono stati a lungo confusi sul motivo per cui le persone spesso mangiano di più dopo aver consumato bevande alcoliche. Nuovi test scientifici mostrano picchi di attività...
A Sip as a Kid, Alcohol Problems as an Adult?
Introducing children to alcohol by way of their parents allowing them sips or tasters of their own drinks is typically viewed as the presiding method used in European countries.
Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, a new...
Rivelato: Il costo globale del fumo
Il fumo e i suoi danni correlati costano al mondo più di 1 trilione di dollari e reclamano la vita di circa 6 milioni di persone ogni anno, secondo un nuovo rapporto dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS) e del National Cancer...
I molteplici effetti sulla salute dell'uso di marijuana
Nel suo primo rapporto dopo quasi 20 anni, la National Academy of Sciences (NAS), ha scoperto che l'uso della marijuana sembra essere particolarmente connesso a:
- Problemi respiratori
- Problemi di salute mentale come psicosi, ansia...
