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Recovery Support: Reading List
Recovery is a process that often takes significant time and effort to achieve and maintain. Here you will find a selection of resources and pieces of research relating to the topic of recovery support. You can also join the ISSUP recovery...
Expanding Access to and Use of Behavioural Health Services for People At Risk for or Experiencing Homelessness
This guide highlights strategies for behavioural health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioural health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and...
A Practical DBT Workbook for Radically Eliminating Neurodivergent Disorders: How to Help You Confront Your Social Anxiety Triggers and Improve Your Interpersonal Effectiveness and Social Skills
- The 4 core skills of dialectical behavior therapy, and how they can benefit people with neurodivergent conditions (ADHD, Autistic, Dyslexia ,Dyspraxia and Tourette Syndrome etc.. because they have high probability of developing addictions...
HIV and Substance Use: Reading List
World AIDS Day takes place in December each year. This reading list contains a list of research, publications and resources for practitioners relating to HIV/Aids. We also have a network dedicated to HIV and HCV where you can find a...
Prevention and Treatment of HIV Among People Living with Substance Use and/or Mental Disorders
Focus of this guide
People with mental illness and/or SUD are disproportionally affected by HIV. They may participate in behaviours that increase risk for contracting and transmitting HIV, such as sharing injection drug equipment or...
HIV and Substance Use
This summary page, developed by HIV info and NIH’s Office of AIDS Research, explores HIV and substance use.
The fact sheet addresses the following questions:
- What is the connection between HIV and substance use?
- How does substance...
Key considerations to integrate HIV and mental health interventions
A new publication by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV and mental health services and other interventions, including linkages to social protection services, for people living with...
ISSUP Mexico participate at the opening of the Master in Substance Abuse Prevention led by ISSUP Argentina
The launch of the new master's degree "Problematic Consumption of Psychoactive Substances from a Social and Health Perspective" was held.
Miriam Carrillo, Director of Prevention at Centros de Integración Juvenil, A.C. (CIJ, acr...
Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations
This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...
Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System
Community engagement is often cited as a tool to improve the health of the community and its members. This guide will review evidence related to leveraging community engagement to support the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based...
Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood
This guide, intended for parents, practitioners, and policymakers, begins with a list of 7 principles addressing the specific ways in which early interventions can have positive effects on development; these principles reflect findings on...
EU Early Warning System on NPS- Poster
Summary
This poster, presented during the IX International Conference on NPS(24 to 26 Oct 2022, Panama), showcases some of the work of the EU Early Warning System on new psychoactive substances. Operated by the EMCDDA, in close...
Substance use prevention 'back to basics'- Reading list
Earlier this month, Jeff Lee, senior consultant to ISSUP, delivered two webinars that reviewed what prevention of substance abuse entails. The webinars were intended to be a "back to basics” for anyone working in the prevention field that...
Guidelines and Recommendations for School-based Prevention
Over the past 25 years, there has been a significant focus on the need to address young people’s health and behaviour as a major and necessary part of the school curriculum.
The objectives for prevention have to include effective...
People, Planet, or Profit: alcohol’s impact on a sustainable future
Alcohol is a discretionary, non-essential product that causes over 200 health conditions.1 The harm that alcohol causes to health, society and the economy is already well-known. However, the damage caused to the environment, sustainable...
Integrated brief interventions for noncommunicable disease risk factors in primary care: the manual
Abstract
Brief interventions are recognized by WHO as an effective measure to help people quit tobacco, reduce or stop alcohol use and increase physical activity. They can also help to achieve and maintain healthy eating behaviours and...
Characterization of Street Dwellers in Colombia between 2017 and 2021
Document of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia where for the first time a consolidated national analysis of the four censuses of street dwellers is presented, contrasted with other sources of national information and...
Guidelines for the care of mental health and spiritual harmonies of indigenous peoples and communities in Colombia
Document of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia, of guidelines for the care of mental health and spiritual harmonies of indigenous peoples and communities within the framework of SISPI, in coordination with the national...
Problematic opioid use in Ireland, 2015–2019
In this report, the Health Research Board presents the results of a study that aimed to estimate the prevalence of problematic opioid use in Ireland from 2015 to 2019 using a four-source capture-recapture method.
Key Findings:
In...
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