Addiction is a complex phenomenon characterized by a loss of control and compulsive, habitual behavior. Since there is no single, specific cause for addiction, there is no single, standard treatment for it. A variety of approaches...
Key studies relating to the roles of medical interventions and treatment in medical settings in local, regional and national drug treatment systems. Highlights a simple innovation which transformed detoxification recyclers into typical...
ISSUP member Ahmad Shah has been selected as an Exchange Ambassador with the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan for one year.
Here is a personal message from Ahmad describing his involvement and experience in the drug demand reduction field:
Greeti...
One in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much – that’s over 2.5 million children. They are Britain’s innocent victims of drink.
Hard-drinking parents hurt their children for life. Compared to...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google told Reuters Monday it would resume accepting ads from U.S. addiction treatment centers in July, nearly a year after the Alphabet Inc unit suspended the lucrative category of...
The National Rehabilitation Centre of the UAE and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. signed an agreement to collaborate in the area of drug demand reduction.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery Grant is now open for applications. Offering up to 5 million USD the grant can be used for a range of projects...
This document presents the findings of the external evaluation of the national strategy for drug (END) developed by a team from the Faculty of social sciences of the University of the Republic in the last quarter of 2014. The document is...
In 2015, the team from the Department of Addictology (First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague) in cooperation with our colleague from the Department of Community Medicine & Health Care...
Cannabis is the substance psychoactive under international control most widely used around the world. It is estimated that, in 2013, 181.8 million people aged 15 to 64 consumed cannabis without medical purposes around the world...
