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Can a "treatment specialist" also be seen as a "prevention specialist" and vice versa?
Mental Well-Being and Addictions: An Insight into the Migration Phenomenon through Health
Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ), host institution of the ISSUP Mexico Chapter, carries out various activities related to the challenges of migration.
On this occasion we share an article that is part of the International News...
Adicciones y bienestar mental: una mirada al fenómeno migratorio a través de la salud
Centros de Integración Juvenil (CIJ) institución anfitriona del Capítulo ISSUP México, lleva a cabo diversas actividades relacionadas con los desafíos de la migración.
En esta ocasión compartimos un artículo que forma parte de la ...
Cost of Substance Use on the Economic Productivity of Canadians – Findings at a Glance
In 2020, the Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms (CSUCH) data reported that substance use resulted in a loss of $22.4 billion in productivity. This represents 45.6% of the overall cost and harms of substance use, which amounted to $49.1...
Eight Dimensions of Wellness
SAMHSA explains the concept of wellness, encompassing physical and mental health. This resource elaborates on the eight dimensions of wellness that cover various aspects of modern-day life, highlighting the interconnection between physical...
Build your Expertise: Five Benefits of Universal Treatment Curriculum Self-Led Courses
The Biological Component of Behavioral Health and Marijuana Use
Join us for the next webinar as part of our Marijuana and Pregnancy Educational Project series highlighting the role of neuroscience and epigenetics as they relate to behavioral health and the potential implications of self-medicating with...
International Children's Day 2023 01st October 2023
Children's day posters
Children's day based on substance abuse
Supporting people who use methamphetamine through SMART Recovery Mutual-help Groups
This Cracks in the Ice webinar was held on Wednesday 6th of September and provided attendees with information about
• Mutual-help groups like SMART Recovery
• Recent research findings that highlight the potential of SMART...
Recognizing and Responding to Opioid Overdose; Safety and Naloxone Training
How the media can play its part in reducing the stigma surrounding substance use
In this blogpost, produced by academics from the University of Stirling, the authors discuss the See Beyond – See the Lives – Scotland campaign, which involves the stories of those left behind after losing a loved one to alcohol and drug...
HEAL Connections Sharing Session Two-Part Series: Inclusive Language, Imagery, and Storytelling for Addiction and Pain Researcher Teams
Overview
This Sharing Session was part one of a two-part series focusing on helping HEAL addiction researchers use language, imagery, and storytelling in respectful ways that engage all stakeholders.
World Drug Report 2023 Examining the Data Webinar (Civil Society & UNODC)- Dalgarno Institute
Beyond the headline of growing substance use and 'damage management' tactics, is the proactive and effective potential of evidence-based Demand Reduction, prevention and recovery.
Datos sobre el uso de múltiples sustancias
Fuente: https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/polysubstance-use/pdf/Spanish-Polysubstance-Factsheet-508.pdf
¿Qué es el uso de múltiples sustancias?
El uso de más de una droga, lo que se conoce como uso de múltiples sustancias, es frecuente...
Polysubstance Use Facts
What is polysubstance use?
The use of more than one drug, also known as polysubstance use, is common. This includes when two or more are taken together or within a short time period, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Intentiona...
Recovery Research Institute Infographics
The Recovery Research Institute have put together a series of pamphlets presenting and discussing all issues relating to recovery support
Centre for disease control prevention factsheets: HIV and substance use
Sharing needles, syringes, or other drug injection equipment—for example, cookers—puts people at risk for getting or transmitting HIV and other infections.
In addition to being at risk for HIV and viral hepatitis, people who inject drugs...
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