Colombo Plan

The 2025 Global Adderall Shortage: Clinical Impact, Public Health Risks, and Implications for Substance Use Professionals

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27 November 2025

The 2025 Global Adderall Shortage: Clinical Impact, Public Health Risks, and Implications for Substance Use Professionals Author: Benjamin Zohar, NCACIP – Nationally Certified Advanced Addiction Intervention Professional, Founder of...

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The Colombo Plan Trains Central Asian Prevention Practitioners on School-based Prevention

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9 October 2024

The Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme (DAP) launched a new prevention initiative to address the need for competent professionals involved in drug use prevention across Central Asia. The first training aimed at prevention practitioners...

URC 1st Echo Training Programme in Sri Lanka

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18 August 2024

URC RECOVERY ALLIES The URC -Recovery Allies curriculum is an opportunity to help 18 people of NDDCB as another great gift received by Sri Lanka through the Colombo Plan Drug Adversary Program (DAP) at the time of great influence. The 18...

URC 1st Echo Training Programme in Sri Lanka.

Apply for the UPC-Managers and Supervisors Course

This training is for prevention professionals, particularly managers, supervisors, programme coordinators and administrators working with the government and non-governmental organisations at the community, state or country level who are involved in the assessment and planning, selecting, implementing, monitoring and evaluation or prevention programming.

NRC Collaborates with The Colombo Plan to Deliver Training

From December 2022 to February 2023, the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Abu Dhabi have been collaborating with The Colombo Plan to deliver various training courses to a variety of organisations in the UAE. The courses included a Training of Trainers in Workplace-Based Speciality Course on Prevention Intervention and Policies, Training of Trainers on UPC Practitioners Core Course for Abu Dhabi-UAE Prevention Practitioners and UPC Practitioners Series Hybrid Training of Trainers - Speciality Track 1: Family Based Prevention. These were hybrid courses and conducted both on

INL Indonesia and CPDAP Collaboration in Advanced UTC Training Course 11 for the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights

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To support the implementation of the Republic of Indonesia Act number 22 of 2022 which regulates the right to treatment and rehabilitation in a penitentiary environment, the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program (CPDAP) with support from the...

Apply for the Colombo Plan Fellowship Programme

Are you a professional working in drug demand reduction? Would you like to gain experience in the field or advance through continuing education? The Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme (CPDAP), with funding from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), is supporting a Fellowship Program with the goal of expanding professionals in the field of drug demand reduction globally.

Training on Universal Treatment Curriculum 01: Physiology and Pharmacology for Addiction Professionals by ITRAMIC Foundation

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In order to endorse the evidence-based practices in the field of addiction treatment in Pakistan, ITRAMIC Foundation Lahore organized virtual training for treatment staff and professionals from 22nd to 29th October 2021 , in collaboration...

UPC Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems: Training report

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From 15th- 22nd December, 2021 the Supreme Training & Consultancy (STC), under the banner of Colombo Plan Drug Advisory programme (DAP) organized a virtual training for the UPC-9 Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems for Malaysian and international professionals.

Universal Treatment Curriculum in Tamil (C-1 & 2)

21 September 2021

Mangalore, India (Onine Live sessions)

India

Ecolink Institute is organizing an online training on Universal Treatment Curriculum on Substance Use Disorder in Tamil language for the Tamil speaking SUD practitioners around the glove, especially from Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and India. Initially, the course is limited to only Curriculum 1 & 2 and the full course may be offered in future. Global Trainer, Dr.Thirumagal V will be the key resource person.