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“Guru Shiksha” Three-Day Teacher Training Program
This report details the successful execution of a three-day residential teacher training program on school-based drug prevention, branded as the "Shiksha" program. Held from July 29th to 31st, 2025, at the Sarvodaya Training Center in...
Challenges Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction with Co Occurring Disorders in Nairobi and Kiambu.
Challenges Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction with Co‑Occurring Disorders in Nairobi and Kiambu.
Prepared by: Kelvin Ateko, Mental Health Nurse
Setting: Urban outpatient/inpatient mental health and addiction services in Nairob ans Kiambu i...
Annual Report to the Parliament on Drug Addictions in Italy
The 2025 Annual Report to the Parliament on Drug Addictions in Italy offers a comprehensive overview of the current drug addiction landscape. Despite a slight decline in youth drug use for the first time since 2018, the report highlights...
Beneath the Surface: Unraveling Childhood Trauma’s Role in Drug Addiction
Childhood is often painted as a carefree canvas, but for too many, it’s a battleground where unseen wounds are carved and wounds that echo into adolescence and beyond. In my project, Understanding the Impact of Childhood Trauma on Drug...
Women’s Substance Use Treatment and Recovery
This report from the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health reviews what we know about women’s substance use treatment and recovery in Canada. It highlights the need for trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and family-focused care. Since...
Deflection and pre-arrest diversion: A newly emerging field in the United States.
Pre-Arrest Diversion Is the “Handle” on the Front Door of the US Justice System.
Many people can be safely deflected in the community instead of entering the justice system.
Mentoring programs for youth: A promising intervention for delinquency prevention.
To realize the full potential of youth mentoring programs, it is critical to advance research on program effectiveness and population-level impact.
Mentoring for preventing and reducing delinquent behavior among youth.
Summary:
This review examines research as it relates to mentoring as a prevention strategy for delinquent behavior. The appeal of mentoring as a delinquent behavior prevention strategy is understandable given its relatively low cost and...
Preventing Youth Arrests through Deflection: Best Practices and Recommendations.
This report, Preventing Youth Arrests through Deflection: Best Practices and Recommendations, is a collection of research-informed best-practices from the Commission for effective deflection programs for youth. As a state advisory group...
Mental Health and Juvenile Justice: A Review of Prevalence, Promising Practices, and Areas for Improvement
This brief reviews the prevalence of mental health issues among youth in the juvenile justice system, including: 1) the types of disorders among youth across juvenile justice settings, 2) the rates of adversity and trauma among these youth...
Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) presents Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The National Survey on Drug...
Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an Approach to Decriminalization of People With Serious Mental Illness
The Sequential Intercept Model provides a conceptual framework for communities to use when considering the interface between the criminal justice and mental health systems as they address concerns about criminalization of people with mental...
Global status report on alcohol and health and treatment of substance use disorders
The WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders provides a comprehensive snapshot of global trends in alcohol consumption, related harms, and national policy responses, alongside the availability...
UNODC World Drug Report
Transforming Primary Care in Lagos: How SBIRT Training is Addressing Nigeria's Substance Use Crisis
Key findings from the 2024 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)
This publication presents key findings from the 8th round of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), conducted in 2024 among 113,882 students aged 15–16 across 37 European countries.
Marking 30 years of...
Psychologists are innovating to tackle substance use by building new alliances in treatment efforts
Recent data from the U.S. highlights a concerning rise in substance use and related harms. In 2022, over 109,000 drug overdose deaths were recorded—a 54% increase since 2019. The majority involved illicit fentanyl, often mixed with...
TOT Training on UPC-Practitioners Series: Core Course-Uganda
The training on UPC-Practitioner’s Series core Course was conducted on Monday 10th – 14th February 2025 in Wakiso district, Uganda at UYDEL Masooli Rehabilitation centre. The Universal Prevention Curriculum for Substance Use for...