All Resources for 'Media, Advocacy, and Communications original'

Call for Applications for the SPR Sloboda and Bukoski Cup

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News
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Prevention
Partner Organisation

Significant advances in prevention science are often due to a team of individuals working closely together across many years. In recognition of the importance of the collaborative process to the field, the Society for Prevention Research...

The UN SDG Action Awards

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News
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Policy
Partner Organisation
The United Nations Development Programme is accepting nominations for the Sustainable Development Goal Action Awards.

Podcast: Effectiveness of Brief Alcohol Interventions in Primary Care Populations

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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health

The Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group specialises in reviews that assess, among other things, ways to reduce hazardous or harmful drinking of alcohol.

One of these reviews looks at the evidence on practitioner-delivered brief interventions...

Annual Report: Use of Narcotics in City of Lahore

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News
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Policy

The Drug Advisory Training Hub (DATH) & Youth Council for Anti Narcotics (YOCFAN) have published the latest annual report on the use of narcotics in Lahore.

The report gives an overview of the current situation in Lahore and outlines the...

Pricing of Tobacco Products During, and After, the Introduction of Plain Packaging

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Scientific article
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Law
Policy
Prevention
Public Health

In 2016 the UK government introduced a policy that required factory-made cigarettes and roll your own tobacco to be sold in plain packaging with pictorial and text warnings.

However, there was reluctance from tobacco companies to “make the...

Interactive Map: Medical Cannabis in the European Union

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Policy
Public Health

The vast majority of the countries in the European Union prohibit the production, sale, possession, and use of pharmaceutical-grade herbal cannabis. However, most EU countries allow cannabis-based medicine, such as Sativex, to be prescribed...

Age‐Varying Effects of Cannabis Use Frequency and Disorder on Symptoms of Psychosis, Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents and Adults

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Mental Health

A recent study, published in the Journal of Addiction, has examined the association of cannabis use, cannabis use disorder and symptoms of psychosis, depression and anxiety in an adolescent and adult sample. The researchers also examined...

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