Prevention

Association between Substance Use and Personality among Mexico City’s School Children Aged 10-13

Scientific article

Abstract Introduction: Substance use is a problem that requires prevention strategies since childhood. It has been noticed that certain personality traits can play an important role in substance use in adolescence and early adulthood. It is...

Youth Leadership Training in Evidence-Based Prevention Plus Wellness: Free Webinar

Video and audio recordings

23 January 2020

Webinar Objectives: Identify approaches & benefits of involving youth in providing substance use (SU) prevention to peers List the advantages of using Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs in youth leadership training (YLT) Describe...

Free Webinar: Academic Programmes in Drug Treatment and Prevention at Paraguayan Universities

31 January 2020

Webinar

Title

Academic Programmes in Drug

Practical Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention: Intro to Prevention Plus Wellness Programs: Free Webinar

Video and audio recordings

14 January 2020

Webinar Objectives: Examine evidence-based & evidence-informed substance use Prevention Plus Wellness screening & brief interventions List differences between typical substance use prevention and Prevention Plus Wellness programs Explore...

Prevention Plus Wellness Youth and Teacher Resources

Website

13 January 2020

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides easy to use evidence-informed resources to help prevention and health specialists and parents prevent youth and young adult alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, e-cigarette, and opioid use while promoting...

Policy Brief: Alcohol Taxation and Pricing Policies in the Region of the Americas

Book

The need to reduce alcohol-related harms has been recognized by the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol (adopted by the Sixty-third World Health Assembly), the United Nations Sustainable...

Planet Youth - The Icelandic Primary Prevention Model in Ireland

25 February 2020

Stirling

United Kingdom

About this Event

SPR Annual Meeting

26 May 2020

Washington, DC

Mark your calendars to attend the most important prevention science conference – the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 28th Annual Meeting that will be held in Washington, DC, May 26 – May 29, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. This year’s theme is “Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science.”

Incorporation of Universal Prevention Curriculum into Established Academic Degree Study Programme: Qualitative Process Evaluation

Scientific article

27 December 2019

Comprehensive bachelor's, master's, and doctorate-level curricula of Addiction Studies (Addictology) were developed and implemented at Charles University between 2003 and 2012.

Providing Youth Cannabis Use Prevention Messages that Promote Wellness Lifestyles: Free Webinar

Video and audio recordings

4 January 2020

Webinar Objectives: Develop messages that integrate youth cannabis use prevention with fitness & health promotion using the Behavior-Image Model. Compare evidence-based & evidence-informed programs for preventing marijuana use and promoting...