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President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week
President Biden issued the first ever Presidential Proclamation recognizing August 29, 2021 – September 4, 2021 as Overdose Awareness Week – a time to honor the lives lost to the overdose epidemic and recommit to both preventing overdoses...
Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...
Como os educadores avaliam a prevenção nos ambientes escolares
O Freemind há muitos anos vem priorizando a questão da prevenção ao uso de substâncias psicoativas, por entender que esse é o caminho para minimizar os problemas decorrentes desse uso e tem trabalhado com pais, educadores e profissionais da...
Latin American Journal of Mental Health and Therapeutic Communities- Call for Papers
The Latin American Journal of Mental Health and Therapeutic Communities (RELASMECT) is an initiative that gather professionals from all over Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States, focused on the creation and...
Ecolink Institute opens Alumni Association of UTC students
Ecolink Institute opens Alumni Association of UTC students
The students of the Universal Treatment Curriculum on Substance Use Disorder under the Ecolink Institute have opened an International Alumni Association to strengthen and promote...
Ecolink Institute successfully completes its 3rd Batch on UTC training
Ecolink Institute successfully completes its 3rd Batch on UTC training
Mangalore: Ecolink Institute of Well-being, an India based training Institute who pioneered online live training of the Universal Treatment Curriculum successfully...
Recognising the human need for community in addiction treatment
Over the past two years, in an attempt to reduce the spread of coronavirus, countries around the world have imposed a range of restrictions and social distancing measures. For social scientists and practitioners, this has led to discussion...
Community-based prevention implementation system in Uganda
Uganda is one of the countries in East Africa with an outdated policy on substance use and abuse. The World Health Organization highlights Uganda as a country with hazardous drinking patterns due to the high prevalence of alcohol...
Building an effective community team and assessing community needs
In Uganda for any substance use prevention to yield positive outcomes, it should be backed by facts on community readiness. Interventions such as “Community That Care’’ (CTC) is one example of the evidence-based model that uses a proven...
Alcohol Awareness Week 2021
Alcohol Awareness Week is a week of awareness-raising, campaigning for change, and more. This year's Alcohol Awareness Week takes place from 15-21 November 2021 on the theme of Alcohol and relationships.
Alcohol Awareness Week is...
UNODC launches new webpage to expand access to essential HIV health and social services
The UNODC Regional Programme Office for Eastern Europe (Kyiv, Ukraine), in cooperation with the Charitable Fund “Humanitarian Action” (Saint Petersburg, Russia), launches a new website on New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) (https://nps-info...
Webinar Rehabilitation for Clients in the Criminal Justice System “Challenges and opportunities for drug rehabilitation practitioners"
In an effort to tackle the problem of abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics, psychotropics and addictive substances, the government has enacted Law no. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. Basically, the sanctions regulated in the...
Codependency can prevent you from being independent
Family members with substance use disorders can prevent others in the family from happily living their own lives.
When we first start protecting someone else's feelings, we often realize that we were trying to protect our own feelings.
Be...
Notice - Scientific Journal
Latin American Journal of Mental Health and Therapeutic Communities
The Latin American Journal of Mental and Therapeutic Health – RELASMECT is an initiative that brings together professionals from all over Latin America, the Caribbean...
Listen First- What the Experts are Saying
'Listen First' is an initiative to increase support for the prevention of drug use that is based on science and is thus an effective investment in the well-being of children and youth, their families and their communities.
Listen First...
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction: Call for Papers
A special issue of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction will be devoted to empirical papers and related to Stigma, Mental Illness and Substance Use.
The special issue is intended to highlight a broad range of issues...
Drug-related Deaths in Scotland in 2020
In 2020,1339 drug-related deaths were registered in Scotland.
This is a 5% increase compared to figures from 2019.
Other key findings show:
- The number of drug-related deaths has increased substantially over the last 20 years – there...
Recordings from the ICUDDR 2021 Conference are now available
We are pleased to announce that recordings from the ICUDDR 2021 Conference are now available to view online!
Atividade de prevenção às drogas nas escolas
EAPREVE: Mais exemplos de atividades para prevenção às drogas nas escolas
Em minha postagem anterior, contei um pouco sobre o programa EAPREVE, que é um programa de prevenção ao uso de drogas presente na Escola de Aplicação da FEUSP...
