Prevention

Prevention with Purpose Strategic Planning Guide

Book

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently released Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students. This new publication provides a road map for college and university-based...

Evaluating the Impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) on Sales-Based Consumption in Scotland

Book

The rise in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms in the UK in recent decades has gone hand in hand with the increasing affordability of alcoholic beverages. Minimum Unit Pricing (setting a minimum price below which a unit of...

11th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

7 October 2020

Lisbon

Portugal

The EUSPR Board has decided to move its Eleventh Conference and Members’ Meeting and Workshops to an online event. The face to face event scheduled October 7th -9th 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal is cancelled.

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 Treatment and Prevention at Paraguayan Universities: Implementation of the UPC and UTC Curricula.

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

DRNS and Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research are delighted to host this event to share learning on the implementation of Planet Youth in Ireland. Emmet Major is coordinating the Planet Youth programme in the west of Ireland and will share his experiences of the programme, with implications for Scottish research, policy and practice.

Session overview