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EMCDDA Cocaine Hub
Overview
Cocaine is the hydrochloride salt produced from the leaves of the coca plant. Powder cocaine is typically snorted and less frequently injected. Crack is a smokable form of cocaine and is manufactured from cocaine hydrochloride.
...National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS), 2021: Data on Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Facilities
The N‑SUMHSS is a voluntary annual survey of all active substance use and mental health facilities in the United States, its territories, and D.C. The annual report presents findings on the general profile of substance use and mental health...
Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth
The report provides behavioural health professionals, researchers, policymakers and other audiences with a comprehensive research overview and accurate information about effective and ineffective therapeutic practices related to youth of...
Legalizing Harm – Why Legalizing Cannabis is a Huge Public Health and Well-being Misstep
An advocacy briefing for policy makers and legislators, challenging pro-cannabis memes.
ADF Drug Wheel
The ADF Interactive Drug Wheel classifies drugs as part of seven general categories: Stimulants, Depressants, Cannabinoids, Psychedelics, Opioids, Dissociatives and Empathogens. Find out about the effects of drugs and more information about...
OSFE Prevent App
App sobre prevención! El juego OSFE Prevent ya se puede descargar desde las tiendas Play y Apple.
Pathways 2 Prevention Podcast
Join us for Drug Free America Foundation’s ‘Pathways to Prevention’ podcast as we engage stakeholders from across the drug demand reduction spectrum including government, academia, clergy, preventionists, treatment professionals, and...
SSA Podcast- Relapse: what is it and what does it mean to people who experience it?
In the latest episode of the Addictions Edited podcast, Rob Calder talks to Dr Maike Klein from the University of Bath about her qualitative research into relapse.
They discuss how relapse can be perceived as part of recovery or...
What Are The Five Stages Of Change?- A Blog Dedicated to Educate the Families of people with Addiction
The blog is a rich source of learning.
You may read the information at your pace.
Share with the clients and their families to equip themselves with the simple strategies to take steps towards more recovery and less relapse.
Here-...
Biblioteca Virtual CIJ
Recovery 101
Recovery from a substance use disorder is defined as a process of improved physical, psychological, and social well-being and health after having suffered from a substance-related condition.
The recovery research institute has put...
Recovery Pathways Online Course
This online course introduces the science of addiction recovery and looks at the evidence on recovery pathways in Europe.
Recovery Pathways has a particular focus on gender differences in how people recover and what happens at different...
Responding to drug-related infectious diseases: EMCDDA mini guide
Sharing drug injecting equipment increases the risk of transmitting and acquiring blood-borne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. While hepatitis C is the most prevalent blood-borne viral infection among people who inject drugs...
HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for People Who Use Stimulant Drugs
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the focus on HIV prevention, treatment and care among people who use drugs has concentrated on the needs of people who inject drugs, and mainly on those who inject opioids. However, data show that...
UNODC work relating to substance use and HIV
UNODC has put together summaries of the work that they are doing relating to Drug use and HIV.
Here, you can find out more about the work that UNODC has done relating to
The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) Bulletin: An Update on Stimulant Use and Related Harms in Canada and the United States
The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba...
World Drug Report at a glance
In the framework of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, several activities took place, including the publication of the World Drug Report elaborated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
T...
Families of people who use drugs: health and social responses
This miniguide is one of a larger set, which together comprise Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide.
It provides an overview of the most important aspects to consider when planning or delivering health and...
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