The Pandemic Project is a social psychology initiative that is studying how our everyday lives are affected by the coronavirus outbreak. For many of us, our worlds, our work, and our social relationships are changing. The research team...
Dear ISSUP members,
My name is Andia Meksi and I would like to share with you some information regarding UTC training held in Tirana, Albania.
The Colombo Plan- Drug Advisory Program and the University of California, San Diego in...
The International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) believes that the impact of this pandemic on people struggling with Substance Use Disorders could not be overlooked.
Thus they have decided to take this opportunity to hold a series of...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has developed new guidelines for professionals and organisations delivering substance use treatment in the US.
The guidelines cover.
The Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC) University training took place in Ukraine from the 10th to the 14th of March, 2020.
The aim of the training was to ensure that the multidisciplinary teams tackling substance use and addiction...
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) will host the third civil society hearing for the INCB board members on the margins of this years INCB board meeting. The hearing will be on the topic of "The Use of Drugs Among Older Persons...
Peer recovery support services are increasingly becoming an important part of the behavioral healthcare workforce. They not only help people with behavioral health conditions connect to, engage in, and be active participants in treatment...
Mr. Sana Ullah Rathore, Director ISSUP Pakistan, was invited as Guest Speaker in Awareness Seminar organised by Young Blood Daska Pakistan in Punjab College Daska, Sialkot.
Mr. Sana Ullah Rathore addressed students and shed light on harms...
One of the key recommendations to reduce alcohol related harm is for countries to introduce policies that regulate how companies advertise their alcohol products.
This measure, along with adjustments in alcohol taxation, is a measure that...
Take this 1-minute survey to give your opinions on what you need to best provide evidence-based substance use prevention such as the single-session SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness program during the coronavirus or other epidemic.
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As large Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are canceled, fellowship migrates online. “Addiction is an illness of isolation, and the antidote is community,” one expert says. Above, Alcoholics Anonymous use sobriety coins representing the amount...
Alcohol has a constant presence in everyday lives.
It is important that all practitioners, professionals, and policymakers are aware of this presence and the impact it has on different members of society.
One way to gather this...
Reflecting the theme - “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights”, Ahsania Mission Female Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center organized a human chain formation followed by a discussion meeting in collaboration with Dhaka...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that the society will lose proactive capable manpower if we cannot eradicate drug related problems from our country. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strictly directed to make the dope tests mandatory for...
Ahsania Mission Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, Gazipur, Bangladesh organized the 8th Recovery Get-Together on 28 February 2020 at its premises, to celebrate the healthy drug-free lives of 170 recovered Substance Use Disorder...
For a number of years, different measures have been taken in Europe to improve the quality of drug prevention through developing and implementing quality standards, training sessions and analysis of drug prevention systems.
Based on the...
EUSPR 2020 is being held in Lisbon, Portugal (at EMCDDA) on 8th and 9th October 2020, with workshops and project meetings scheduled for the pre-conference day, October 7th.
The theme this year is ‘Make prevention science relevant for all...
Join Us! April 21-24, 2020
SALIS (Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists) and AMHL (the Association of Mental Health Librarians) invite you to spend 3 wonderful days in the nation’s capital meeting with & learning...
1. O que funciona na prevenção do abuso de substâncias?
Todos nós (esperamos) concordar que as autoridades e outras instituições responsáveis devem investir seus recursos em práticas eficazes de prevenção baseadas em evidências, baseadas em...
