Prevention

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

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This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...

2017 UNODC World Drug Report

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Now in its 20th year of publication, the UNODC World Drug Report for 2017 is now available. It consists of 5 accessible booklets: Booklet 1 provides a summary of the subsequent 4 booklets. It also discusses the policy implications of the...

Personality-Targeted Substance Use Interventions: Do They Work?

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Do high-risk pupils benefit more so from psychological interventions than standard drug education initiatives? Much research suggests there are, in fact, a number of significantly positive effects associated with the former. What is more...

Prevention and Treatment for Drug Use in Rural Settings

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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 intent...

Aggression Linked to Substance Use

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New Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has found that people with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) – a condition with a significant genetic component characterised by regular outbursts of aggression, whether...