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Using educational settings to foster social-emotional learning and prevent the use of substances.
The Role of Law Enforcement in the Reduction of Substance Use and Other Behavioral Health Risks: Substance Use as a Focus: United States as an Example
This paper explores how law enforcement can contribute to the prevention of substance use and other behavioural health risks beyond their traditional enforcement role. Using the United States as an example, it argues that police and other...
School Suspension as a Predictor of Young Adult Homelessness: The International Youth Development Study
School suspension in adolescence has been shown to predict homelessness in young adulthood, suggesting that it may be a point of intervention to reduce young adult homelessness. Under zero tolerance policies, school suspension is more...
Call for Review: School-Based Substance Use Prevention Standards
We’re excited to share that the School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education, and Intervention: A Multi-Tiered and Developmental Approach for Kindergarten to Grade 12 Schools (PRV STD-16:2025), is now open for public review in both...
ESPAD Report 2024
The ESPAD report presents the results of the eighth data-collection wave, which took place in 2024, and marks an impressive 30 years of data collection by this long-standing collaboration. More than 113 000 15- to 16-year-old students from...
Social and Economic Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on Young People: A case study of Teso region - Uganda.
Context: Teso region in Eastern Uganda has one of the highest levels of alcohol and drug use Nationally. A project intervention aimed at preventing harmful use of alcohol and drugs among youth was initiated with support of Movendi /IOGT-NTO...
National Training Program on Prevention in Schools: The Paraguayan Experience
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In 2024, a public call from the Ministry of Education and Science for the contracting of a higher education institution to design and implement a training programme in strategies for preventing psychoactive substance...
Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances
Background
Child poverty is linked to poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes, and long-term social and psychological issues, all of which increase service demand and costs. Traditionally, prevention and early...
Feasibility Study of Linking Anonymous Data of Children in Longitudinal School-Based Prevention Research
INTRODUCTION: Longitudinal prevention research in adolescents often involves sensitive data collection, necessitating anonymity. Self-Generated Identification Codes (SGICs) have emerged as a tool for linking anonymous data while preserving...
Addictology
Issue 2/2024
A Reflection on Prevention Systems: A European perspective
Prevention science over the past years has accumulated evidence on the effectiveness of drug prevention interventions (Sloboda et al. 2014). In Europe this improvement has been a consequence of priorities defined by EU drug strategies since...
