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Community-level awareness, altering social norms, and building resilience.
TALK RECOVERY, TALK SAFE SPACES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
May is recognized globally as Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to encourage open conversations, challenge stigma, and promote emotional well-being for all. Across many cultures, however, men continue to face unique barriers when it...
The Opioid Crisis Practical Toolkit: Supporting Faith and Community Responses
This practical toolkit highlights the role of faith-based and community leaders in responding to the opioid crisis in the United States. Developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it recognizes that community and faith...
Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse
This study reviews evidence on the role of faith and spirituality in preventing substance use and supporting recovery. It highlights that many addiction treatment programs in the United States include a spiritual component, particularly...
Strengthening Faith-Based Responses to Substance Use and Crime: ISSUP and CICAD to Host Knowledge Exchange Session in Latin America
ISSUP, in collaboration with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), will host a high-priority Knowledge Exchange Session on Faith-Based Approaches, bringing together ISSUP National Chapters across Latin America to...
2026 National Drug Control Strategy - The White House
The 2026 National Drug Control Strategy outlines a comprehensive roadmap to reduce illicit drug use and protect communities across the United States. It prioritizes stopping the flow of drugs and precursor chemicals at all borders through...
Faith-based intervention, change in religiosity, and abstinence among people with substance use disorders
This study examines how changes in religiosity influence recovery outcomes among people in addiction treatment. It finds that individuals in faith-based programs show higher and increasing levels of religiosity over time, which is linked to...
La comunidad religiosa y la fe frente al trastorno por uso de sustancias
Recovery Capital
Recovery capital includes all the internal and external resources that a person has at their disposal to help them get engaged in and subsequently build and strengthen their recovery. The more recovery capital one has, the stronger their...
Understanding alcohol use disorder and help-seeking in a Hispanic faith-based community
Abstract
Introduction
Hispanic Americans are disproportionately affected by alcohol use disorders (AUD) yet many are reluctant to seek alcohol treatment. Faith-based communities could serve as an effective setting for raising awareness...
INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY IN RECOVERY
The reality that recovery from substance use disorders (SUD) can emerge through multiple pathways and not be linear, too, was powerfully demonstrated during the January Pathways to Progress Summit hosted by the 1:11 Project Africa at...
Faith Based Community Based Centers
Dr Joe Muriuki was the First Kenya to go public about his HIV Status back in 1989. At the time HIV/AIDS was a scare for nations and those who were diagnosed with the infection were stigmatized and isolated by family, Place of work and the...
GAMBLING AND BETTING IN AFRICA
*GAMBLING & BETTING IN AFRICA*
By Peter Chege Kariuki | Mr. Talent.
_Understanding the Web, the Wound, and the_ _Way Out._
A Practical, Lived-Experience Perspective by Mr. Talent.
*Gambling & Betting in the African Reality* (...
Day 1, 17:30 - 18:30, Plenary 5: Prevention in the Community
Panel Presented at Indonesia 2025 on the 17th of September 2025
Moderator: Goodman Sibeko
Presentations:
Yuki Ruchimat: Community Empowerment Strategies to Combat Drug Abuse and Trafficking in Indonesian High-Risk Areas
Dayana Vincent...
Day 1, 16:00 - 17:30, Plenary 4: Reducing Drug Related Crimes in the Community
Panel Presented at Indonesia 2025 on the 17th of September 2025
Moderator: Imelda Indriyani
Presentations:
Mirza Hapsari Massarapa: Reducing Drug-Related Crime: A Comprehensive Approach from the Indonesian Directorate General of...
Implementation of Drug Rehabilitation Services Through a Community-Based Intervention Approach (IBM): Results of Community-Based Intervention Service Index (INSANI) in 2023
Background:
Independent and community-based services should be available and easily accessible to drug users (UNODC, 2018). Therefore, the Deputy for Rehabilitation of BNN initiated the IBM Program in 2021. Although IBM services are...
Day 2, 13:00 - 14:00, Plenary 9: Community–Based Approach in Asia
Panel Presented at Indonesia 2025 on the 18th of September 2025
Moderator: Therese Castillo
Presentations:
Erniawati Lestari - Building Access To Rehabilitation Services For Substance Use Disorders In Indonesia Through Community-Based...
Integrating Community-Based Interventions for Sustainable Addiction Recovery: A Case Study of Social Challenges and Rehabilitation Efforts in Sungai Asap, Belaga, Sarawak, Malaysia
Addiction remains a critical global challenge, requiring innovative, integrated, and sustainable approaches for effective rehabilitation and social reintegration. The growing prevalence of substance abuse, particularly in marginalized...
An Overview of Harm Reduction Policy in Some Nigerian Communities
STRENGTHENING SOBRIETY TO STRENGTHEN ADDICTION PREVENTION.
STRENGTHENING SOBRIETY TO STRENGTHEN ADDICTION PREVENTION.
Working with young people over the years—teenagers in high schools, students in colleges, and community youth in different neighborhoods—I have learned something powerful: the...
Toolkit on Stakeholder Engagement: Implementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC)
The UNODC has developed a Toolkit designed to strengthen the capacity of civil society, academia, and the private sector to support the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its Protocols.
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