university training

Empowered Youth Transform Drug Prevention Across Africa

News

22 June 2025

What happens when 25 passionate young people gather in one space with one mission to reimagine drug use prevention for Africa? Seychelles was that space, and from 2nd to 6th June 2025, it became a cradle of ideas, urgency, and unity. The...

Quality Standards and Competencies for University and Higher Education Addiction Study Programs

Scientific article

8 October 2024

BACKGROUND: Exponential growth of addiction specific services accelerated the need and pressure on professionalizing workforce. It is followed by the increasing number of university and higher education programs specifically focused on...

International Diploma in Interventions for Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery of Substance Use Disorders

11 April 2024

Temuco

Chile

Jimena Kalawski, in partnership with The Universidad Católica De Temuco, will present a lecture on the International Diploma in Interventions for Prevention,

World No Tobacco Smoking Day- Visit at ANF by The University of Lahore Students

News

On May 31, 2023, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Smoking Day, a visit was organized at Regional Directorate Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) Punjab, Lahore Office to meet newly appointed Director Commander Raja Tarqi Kiyani to discuss their...

New Trends in Education and Training Programs in Addictions at the Higher Education and University Levels

Scientific article

13 December 2021

BACKGROUND A broad range of professionals, training opportunities, and regional differences exist in the addiction study field worldwide. This educational variety poses a challenge in proposing a precise classification of study programs at...

The Master’s in Drug Dependence at the University of Barcelona: Historical Perspective and Future Challenges

Scientific article

5 August 2021

BACKGROUND The two-year, multidisciplinary Master’s in Drug Dependence (MDD) at the University of Barcelona was created in 1986, after some years of offering shorter seminars. It was a response to the heroin crisis of the 80s and 90s and...

UCSD 50th Summer Clinical Institute in Addictions Studies, June 9 and 10, 2021

The University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, will continue to offer their 50th Summer Clinical Institute in Addictions Studies this year virtually, on June 9 and 10, 2021. A full tuition scholarship is also available.

UTC University Training in Ukraine

News

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...

HSRProj Back to School Webinar: How to Search, Communicate, and Disseminate Your Research

21 August 2019

Webinar

This introductory seminar explores effective search, communication, and dissemination strategies and provides an overview of resources publicly available through the National Library of Medicine for public health and health services and policy researchers to use in their work.