ISSUP at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Earlier this week ISSUP attended the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) at the Vienna International Centre.
Search
وب سایت جدید آگاهی از الکل
مدیر اجرایی خدمات صحی ایرلند (HSE) یک وب سایت جدید آگاهی از الکل را راه اندازی کرده است. 'درباره الکل بپرسید' فراهم می کند اطلاعات در مورد خطرات بهداشتی مرتبط با نوشیدن الکل را قادر می سازد مردم را به مدیریت سلامت خود را بهتر است. علاوه...
Podcast: Do Tobacco Cessation Interventions Provided during Substance Abuse Treatment or Recovery Help Tobacco Users to Quit?
Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...
Opioids Linked to Increase in Cocaine-Related Overdose Deaths
Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...
Illuminating the Dark Web
The Economist reports that the drug trade is moving from the street to so-called online ‘cryptomarkets’, or secret virtual-shop-fronts.
Online markets currently facilitate a comparatively small amount of illegal drug sales. Nonetheless...
Alcohol Use Disorders Webinar
The Progress in Mind Resource Centre held a one-hour webinar on alcohol use disorders. The webinar was delivered by Wim van den Brink, Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Amsterdam, and Steve Brinksman, GP and...
منابع عالی برای معلمان
تو معلمی؟ آیا شما به دنبال مواد و یا برنامه های درس در مورد اثرات مواد مخدر و سوء مصرف مواد مخدر؟ موسسه ملی سوء مصرف مواد مخدر (NIDA) یک پایگاه داده بزرگ از بیش از 70 مواد معلم در اثرات مواد مخدر و سوء مصرف مواد مخدر بر مغز، بدن، و زندگی...
آموزش آموزش همتایان در زندان مرکزی تیهار
سازمان جاسوسی امریکا برنامه مداخله در زندان را در میان جوانان سوء مصرف کننده مواد مخدر که زندانیان زندان مرکزی تیهار در دهلی نو هستند، آغاز کرده است. مربیان همکار شناسایی شده اند و یک برنامه آموزشی توسط دکتر راجش کومار، مدیر اجرایی SPYM...
Drug Misuse Prevention: Targeted Interventions
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released guidelines that cover targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, ‘legal highs’ and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or...
Synthetic Drugs on the Rise in Afghanistan
Seizures of methamphetamine have increased in Afghanistan, according to a new report from the United Nations drug and crime agency. It also suggests that the drug is being produced inside the country.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime...
US Pediatricians Warn of Rising Risks to Youth from Loosening Marijuana Laws
New American Academy of Pediatrics report calls on doctors to help protect patients’ developing brains and bodies from the health harms of marijuana amid increased legalisation
The AAP urges pediatricians screen adolescents and preteens...
The Punjabi Problem: Drug Use in One of India’s Wealthiest Regions
According to the BBC, a recent government-conducted investigation suggests that more than 860,000 young men (15 – 35) in the Punjab region of India take drugs. This is three times the national average. Heroin is used by 53% of all...
Thousands Die without Access to Alcohol Treatment
The BBC reports that almost 8,000 high-risk drinkers died from alcohol-related causes in Wales, UK between 2005 – 2014 without having received treatment for alcohol addiction. This is despite repeated hospital and A&E admissions for as much...
Vacancy: Project Support Specialist, Tobacco Control (Grade: P2)
Vacancy: Project Support Specialist, Tobacco Control (Grade: P2)
The Unit of Risk Factors and Nutrition at the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health has opened a vacancy for a Project Support Specialist, Tobacco Control...
برنامه های فنلند عاری از دود سرعت را جمع آوری می کند
فنلند قصد دارد مصرف محصولات دخانیات را - به هر شکلی - تا سال 2040 در میان بزرگسالان به کمتر از 2 درصد کاهش دهد. در مورد بسیاری از کشورهای صنعتی، میزان دخانیات فنلند در سال های اخیر در نتیجه اقدامات مختلف صحت عامه کاهش یافته است. با این...
New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers
This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free.
Service providers can...
Healthy Nightlife Toolbox - Resources for Creating Safer Nightlife Settings
The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox (HNT) is an international initiative that focuses on the reduction of harm from alcohol and drug use among young people.
The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox collects and provides information on evidence-based...
Free Resource for Evaluating Drug Prevention and Treatment Interventions
The Evaluation Instruments Bank (EIB) is an online database of freely available resources for evaluating drug prevention and treatment programmes and initiatives. You can search the archive by type of intervention (treatment or prevention)...
Treating Alcohol Addiction with Positive Relationships
A ‘therapeutic alliance’, or in other words, a positive and trusting relationship between counsellor and patient, could be the key to successful treatment of alcohol addiction, according to a new study. Patients who reported a more positive...