All Resources for 'Policy, Governance & International Affairs'

This presentation was featured at Indonesia 2025, on the 17.09.2025.

Authors:

Sedef Erçetin Gencosmanoğlu

Hendrée E. Jones

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The Turkish Green Crescent Society (TGCS), established in 1920, has long been a pioneer in addiction...

This presentation will explore how culturally adaptable, evidence-based prevention programs rooted in school and family setting can be scaled across borders to address substance use and mental health challenges in diverse, low resource communities.

In recovery work, the urge to "fix" can often overshadow the real goal: empowering autonomy. As a recovery ally, I’ve learned that sustainable healing happens when we honour the individual’s journey and not impose our values on it. True...

THE POWER OF LOCALLY AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN ADDICTION PREVENTION.

Addiction prevention efforts are most successful when they are rooted in the local context—using what is available within a community to address its unique challenges. This...

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INTRODUCTION

In 2012, about 3.3 million net deaths, or 5.9% of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption. There are significant sex differences in the proportion of global deaths attributable to alcohol, for...

ISSUP Global, in collaboration with Faces & Voices of Recovery, presents its webinar titled 'Words Matter: Language and Stigma Reduction.'

Recommended Reading: New Psychoactive Substances: Studies from Central Asia and China
We are pleased to present the book "New Psychoactive Substances: Studies from Central Asia and China", prepared by an international team of experts and...

ISSUP Global, in collaboration with Faces & Voices of Recovery, presents its webinar titled 'Returning to Basics: Successful Advocacy 101'

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Scant research has been published on online addiction treatment, with few studies focusing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in relation to addiction treatment. Therefore, this study aims to explain the TPB's predictability...

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Many studies have compared individuals who use cannabis for recreational versus medical purposes, but little is known about the moral norms and risk perceptions toward recreational versus medical cannabis while driving. This study...