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During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, mental health among youth has been negatively affected. Youth with a history of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), as well as youth from minoritized racial-ethnic...

La Société internationale des professionnels du traitement de l’addiction aux substances psychoactives (en anglais International Society of Substance Use Professionals, ISSUP) dispose désormais d’une branche au Togo. L’ISSUP-Togo a été...

ROSC or Recovery Oriented System of Care is a coordinated network of community-based services that is person-centred and builds on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families and communities (1). 

This paper provides a...

EMCDDA's best practice portal is designed to help you find practical and reliable information on what works (and what doesn’t) in the areas of prevention, treatment, harm reduction and social reintegration.

It will help you identify tried...

Theories are important tools in the health and social science world. However, it is important to consider how they are formed and how they inform everyday practice.

In this paper, the authors discuss the Normalisation Process Theory...

Chaired by Livia Edegger, Deputy Director of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP), the specialist in this panel spoke about the importance of creating and strengthening the workface in drug demand reduction...

Short Takes with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Learn about the definition of alcohol use disorder (AUD), signs of AUD, and what you can do to get help.

What do we mean by evidence and why does it matter?

This article, published by Drugs Research Network Scotland, discusses the hierarchy of evidence and the way evidence can be used to inform effective and efficient drug policy and practice...

This webinar presented an overview of evidence for treatment of methamphetamine dependence, and future directions.

Crystalline methamphetamine (“ice”) is a significant and growing public health concern in Australia, with approximately 300...

This seminar examines the emerging research on the safety of pharmaceutical drugs of dependence in pregnancy.

Pharmaceutical drugs of dependence are a group of drugs that have a recognized therapeutic need but are associated with a higher...

This webinar discussed findings from recent studies on alcohol use among women in Australia.

In the context of global declines in alcohol consumption, studies have recently shown that middle-aged women’s alcohol use has increased in the...

This training session on Treatment and Prevention of Substance Use and Mental Health Problems was conducted at the Department of Psychology, University of Karachi psychology graduates and faculty members. 

this training workshop was organized by Aga Khan Agency for Habitat to train the national trainers (Community Emergency Response Team). 25 national trainers from different provinces attended this training workshop. 

The aim of this training workshop is to develop a team of professionals/ trainers who could replicate this training workshop across the country. To achieve this goal we wanted to increase their knowledge of substance abuse problems...

NGO CIVIL SOCIETY SUBMISSION TO WHO-SAFER MISSION on Alcohol in Uganda

compiled by:

Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance (UAPA)

                     and

Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL)

Kampala - Uganda. 24 November 2021

Alcohol and problematic drug use are significant issues in Scotland, causing damage to people’s lives, families and communities, and contributing to violence and crime.

Not only can stigma relating to substance use impact an individuals...

Here you can read the UK governments 10-year plan to reduce illegal drug use.

The 10-year plan is also the formal, substantive response to the Independent Reviews of Drugs led by Dame Carol Black and accepts all of her key recommendations...