WHA adopts Global Alcohol Action Plan
On Friday 27 May in Geneva, the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the WHO Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030, a key global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
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Opioid Facts and Figures
Opioid Facts and Figures, recorded 3-June-2022. Presented by Lauran Wirf, DO: Addiction Medicine Fellow; University of Colorado School of Medicine; Denver, Colorado. With the increasing prevalence of illicit fentanyl, it is important for...
Childhood Traumatic Grief: Youth Information Sheet
Most of you who experience the death of someone important adjust and recover over time. However, some of you may have more trouble adjusting and may develop Childhood Traumatic Grief. This can happen if the death was sudden, such as from a...
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Twelfth Session)
ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviours: Targeting Adolescents in Nigeria.
Learning Outcomes:
- Gain...
Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development
Abstract
The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000 people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects on drug-use behavior create dynamic...
Use Patterns, Flavors, Brands, and Ingredients of Nonnicotine e-Cigarettes Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults in the United States
Abstract
Importance Nonnicotine e-cigarettes contain chemicals, flavorants, and solvents that have known health harms and/or have not been proven safe for inhalation.
Objective To evaluate nonnicotine e-cigarette use patterns, including...
Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes
Background
Opioid overdose remains a public health crisis in diverse communities. Between 2019 and 2020, there was an almost 40% increase in drug fatalities primarily due to opioid analogues of both stimulants and opioids. Medications for...
Strategy for Preventing Opioid Use Disorder in Communities
Key Issues
- Substance use often begins in adolescence.
- Any substance use in adolescence can have detrimental effects on the developing brain.
- Effects of substance use/misuse accumulate over time increasing societal costs and public...
Using Adolescent Development to Inform Prevention Practice
Participants will review major social and biological factors of adolescent development and implications for ways to approach substance use prevention/intervention.
Objectives Include:
- Describe prevalence rates for adolescent...
