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This guide assists providers in offering treatment to women living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of initial use and specific treatment issues and strategies.

This webinar focuses on the issue of self-care for addiction professionals and was delivered by ICUDDR Deputy Director Cary Hopkins Eyles.

Many of us are drawn to work in the field of substance use disorders due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these can be great assets, they can also be detrimental to us personally.

In this webinar, Cary explains how to identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like.

Cary has worked in the field of substance use disorders for 18 years. She is...

د احصایې فنلینډ لخوا خپاره شوی معلوماتو په وینا ، په یو کال کې د مخدره توکو پورې اړوند مړینو شمیر په 25 کې 2018 increased ډیر شوی.

د مړینې لاملونو کې د ډیری موادو څخه تصادفی مسمومیت ، د اوږدې مودې مخدره توکو کارولو له امله مړینې ، او د ځان وژنې لپاره کارول شوی مخدره توکی شامل دی.

د مخدره توکو پورې اړوند مړینو زیاتوالی په ټولو عمر ګروپونو کې لیدل شوی مګر په ځانګړی توګه د 20-29 ګروپ کې.

دا یادونه وشوه چې په فنلینډ کې ، د مخدره توکو پورې اړوند مړینې د اروپا اوسط په پرتله د ځوان عمر ګروپونو کې متمرکز دی.

From the 2nd of March, Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol will come into effect in Wales. 

The policy, which has shown positive outcomes in Scotland, aims to tackle alcohol-related harm and death.

MUP is designed to reduce the amount of low cost, high strength products.

Although the law enabling the Welsh Government to set a minimum unit price was passed on 9 August 2018, there have been delays to the introduction of MUP due to objections from Portugal, who argued it breached European free trade law by discriminating against imported alcohol products.

An awareness campaign, aimed at...

Summary

This report presents the latest findings on drug-related hospital emergencies from a network of sentinel hospitals across Europe.

Almost 24,000 emergency presentations were recorded at 32 sentinel hospitals over the first 4 years of the project. The data reveal that the substances most commonly involved in acute drug toxicity presentations include heroin, cocaine and cannabis. Prescription medicines are frequently reported. The report also sheds light on other aspects of drug-related emergencies such as clinical features, geographical variation, outcomes, demographics and time...

In July 2019, the UK Government set out its ambition for England to be smokefree by 2030. Government guidelines say the next steps should have been announced by 6th January 2020, but it has yet to do so.

Several key charities, including ASH, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Royal College of Physicians, the British Medical Association, the British Lung Foundation, and the Royal Society for Public Health, has called on the UK government to lay out the next steps in order to reach their target.

The charities have put forward a Roadmap to a Smokefree 2030, as a suggestion as to...

The rise in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms in the UK in recent decades has gone hand in hand with the increasing affordability of alcoholic beverages. 

Minimum Unit Pricing (setting a minimum price below which a unit of alcohol cannot legally be sold) was approved by the Scottish Parliament in 2012.

This report provides an analysis of off-trade alcohol sales data for the 12-month period since the implementation of minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland.

The report, written by NHS Scotland, provides a descriptive analysis of the:

• The volume of pure alcohol sold per adult in...