The Annual Meeting will be held on March 2-5 2022, and is currently scheduled to take place at the Edinburgh International Conference Center in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The SRNT 2022 Annual Meeting may be a hybrid (part in person, part virtual) or entirely virtual, depending on how things play out in the coming months. A final decision about the meeting format (face-to-face hybrid virtual component vs. entirely virtual) will not be made for some time. In the meantime, attendees should not hesitate to submit for fear of being unable to travel. Rest assured that the meeting, no matter the chosen...
Manu, E., Douglas, M., Ntsaba, M.J. et al. Perspectives of illicit marijuana growers and traders on commercial legalisation of marijuana in South Africa: considerations for policy formulation. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 16, 54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-021-00391-w
Over the past era, there has been a call for legalizing marijuana cultivation and trading for commercial purposes in South Africa. Advocates of the call argue that the criminalization of commercial marijuana cultivation and trading has failed to stop illicit marijuana cultivation and trading. Nevertheless, the views of those who economically benefit from the illicit marijuana trade on its legalization remain empirically unsolicited.
This study aimed to understand the views of illegal marijuana growers and traders from two selected communities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa...
گزارش جهانی مواد مخدر 2021 که شامل پنج کتابک جداگانه است، تحلیل عمقی از بازارهای جهانی مواد مخدر ارائه می دهد و تصویر جامعی از اثرات قابل اندازه گیری و تاثیر بالقوه بحران COVID-19 بر مشکل جهانی مواد مخدر را نقاشی می کند.
KAWEMPE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (KYDA UGANDA)
کی دی ای در دومین کنفرانس سیاست الکل اوگاندا پوستر مداخلات خانواده درمانی را که در مرکز آنها صورت می گیرد، ارائه کرد. خانواده درمانی مجموعه ای از رویکردهای درمانی است که به ارزیابی و مداخله در سطح خانواده اعتقاد دارند.
پوستر جزئیات اهداف و رویکرد مورد استفاده در این مداخلات خانواده درمانی، و ارائه یک سری از توصیه ها در نتیجه گیری.
This is a kind invitation to attend a Capacity building and information Zoom meeting organised by Uganda Youth Development Link and ISSUP Uganda Chapter
Line Up Live Up is a UNODC life skills evidence-informed training programme – that target individual risk factors can use sport to achieve positive skills formation and promote social development of a young person
The Line Up Live Up training curriculum is aimed at developing life skills through sports, Sport is a potent vehicle for the promotion of positive role models and constructive behaviour change. thus contributing to risks mitigation and protective factors formation. Targeting individual level, the training curriculum helps to reduce the risks of crime, violence and drug use through...
Alcohol policy champion Hon. Betty Nambooze has vowed to renew her efforts to bring forward an Alcohol Law in Uganda to ensure comprehensive development and implementation of WHO-recommended alcohol policy during her new Parliamentary mandate.
In 2017, the Parliament of Uganda revived a private member’s Bill that sought to regulate the alcohol industry. The Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill, 2016, was initially brought forward by Betty Nambooze, the Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament (MP).
In 2016, MP Nambooze and a delegation of other MPs and their assistents joined Movendi International...
Uganda Has now officially started training in harm reduction and has created Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT) Clinics in one of its National referral Mental Hospital Alcohol and Drug Unit.
The training is ongoing for new and existing staff to run this new facility and MAT clients will be enrolled this coming month.
A special thanks to all the efforts of Dr David Basangwa whose dream this is has now become a reality.
The Sixth Plenary Session of the 'Drug Demand Reduction in Africa: Prevention, Treatment and Epidemiology' Virtual Conference from 16th September to 10th November 2020.
The First Plenary Session of the 'Drug Demand Reduction in Africa: Prevention, Treatment and Epidemiology' Virtual Conference from 16th September to 10th November 2020.
In early March, 2020, the world was hit by a pandemic of COID-19, which has affected the lives of millions global.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new virus and spreads primarily through contact with an infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface or objects that has the virus on it, and then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.
The government through the ministry of health adopted preventive stay home measures which limited nearly all physicalinteraction activities in the...
The COVID 19 pandemic globally has had a devastating negative impact especially in low income countries like Uganda who have fragile health system and can’t manage many cases. Governments declared lockdown and everything stood at stand still for over 75 days. Children and their families depending on small informal business closed, capital eaten up and didn’t know what to happen next.
Our entire 9 Drop in centers/safe spaces were closed and over 2000 slum youth and poor children scattered and a few went home. We received distress calls from some our young people we serve daily in...