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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...
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...
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...
جایگزین های سالم تر و اوج طبیعی: موفقیت مدل ایسلندی
در طول دو دهه گذشته، ایسلند شاهد کاهش چشمگیر سیگار کشیدن نوجوانان، نوشیدن و مصرف مواد مخدر بوده است. این تا حدی به دلیل ابتکارات دولتی است که به دنبال ترویج جایگزین های سالم تر، یا "اوج طبیعی"، مانند ورزش، فعالیت های خانواده گرا و مقررات فرهنگی است.
Alcohol Switches the Brain into 'Starvation Mode'
Alcohol has a very high calorie content. Experts, therefore, have long been confused as to why people often eat more after having consumed alcoholic drinks. New scientific tests show spikes in electrical activity in the brains of mice when...
A Sip as a Kid, Alcohol Problems as an Adult?
Introducing children to alcohol by way of their parents allowing them sips or tasters of their own drinks is typically viewed as the presiding method used in European countries.
Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, a new...
Alcohol Advertising Linked to Youth Drinking
Health researchers worldwide have provided new evidence suggesting that alcohol advertising is often aggressive, reaching children, and is linked with youth drinking.
The Australian organisation, the National Alliance for Action on Alcohol...
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis
The New York Times article traces the impact of America's opioid epidemic on Americans of all backgrounds throughout the country. Photos depict the human face of a tragedy that is taking too many lives.
خودکشی و سوء مصرف مواد
تحقیقات جدید ارتباط قابل توجهی بین خطر خودکشی و مصرف همزمان کوکائین و الکل پیدا کرده است.
این مطالعه عادات مصرف مواد مخدر از 874 شرکت کننده در بیمارستان برای نمایش تمایل به خودکشی، از افکار خودکشی گرفته تا تلاش برای گرفتن جان خود را مورد...
EMCDDA Updates on Best Practice
A new European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) Best Practice report will be published in early 2017. It will take an in-depth look at substance use prevention in Europe.
The report's stated aim is "not to rate...
اکسی کونتین جهانی می شود — "ما فقط شروع می کنیم"
لس آنجلس تایمز به بررسی گسترش شرکت های دارویی در سطح بین المللی که در تلاش برای فروش اکسی کونتین بسیار اعتیاد آور، داروهای مخدر، و با استفاده از سرگرم کننده و چهره های ورزشی برای ورود به بازارهای سراسر جهان است.
Purple Drank: The New Drug of Choice for French Teenagers?
A news item currently trending in the French press concerns the alarming increase in consumption amongst French teenagers of a drink most commonly known as ‘purple drank’, but also referred to as ‘lean’ or ‘sizzurp’. Le Monde first reported...
دروگاس: برنامه های proponen empezar la prevención con en los jardines de infantes
استه آرتیکولو دستاکا لا کولابوراسیون انتر ال گوبیرنو آرجنتینو y estadounidense en relación a reducción de la demanda. آمبوس استان تراباجاندو کان اون انفوک ان نینوس، به ویژه در prevención de primer uso y tratamiento para pre-adolescentes...
Canadian Quits
The latest Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Survey (2015) reports a decrease in the number of smokers nationwide.
Click here to view the full set of results (available in both English and French).