Publications

El Informe sobre la Situación de la Salud Mental y el Consumo de Sustancias Psicoactivas compila datos relevantes sobre el consumo de sustancias y la salud mental, con el propósito de que personas interesadas y tomadores de decisiones de los sectores público, privado y social que suman esfuerzos para prevenir y brindar atención en materia de salud mental y adicciones cuenten con información confiable y objetiva del panorama actual.

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment (SWAAT) is a National Drugs Strategy Strand 2 Strategic Health Initiative which aims to build community capacity to support women to access treatment and recovery from drug and alcohol use across the Tallaght and Ballyfermot LDATF areas.

The Drink Wise, Age Well programme was delivered over five years from 2015 to 2020 in five intervention areas across the UK.

The project had 4 objectives:

Summary

This report provides a technical review of the current body of knowledge regarding new benzodiazepines that are monitored by the EU Early Warning System.

The aims of this report are to strengthen situational awareness of new benzodiazepines in Europe and to help stakeholders prepare for and respond to public health and social threats caused by such substances.

Source: U.S.A. National Academy of Medicine

Stigma of Addiction Summit Innovation Abstract Compendium

Стратегическое видение УНП ООН для Африки до 2030 года определяет нашу миссию по обеспечению большей безопасности для населения, правительства и учреждений Африки от наркотиков, преступности, коррупции, терроризма и незаконных финансовых потоков.

The report provides information on risk factors for non-communicable diseases and prevalence of selected NCDs bases on WHO’s STEPwise approach to Surveillance (STEPS).

The document provides a five-year plan for the integration of mental health into the primary health care service delivery platform.

The document provides a five-year plan for the integration of mental health into the primary health care service delivery platform.

The document provides a five-year plan for the integration of mental health into the primary health care service delivery platform.

The document provides directions and programs of the Ministry of Health and its efforts to transform the health sector.

Introduction

Analysing communal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products in order to estimate their consumption in the community is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including analytical chemistry, physiology and biochemistry, sewage engineering, spatial epidemiology and statistics, and conventional drug epidemiology.

Las personas encargadas del tratamiento por abuso de sustancias, quienes ejercen la medicina clínica, los/las extensionistas, las clínicas de salud pública, entre otros, deben conocer la información que se detalla a continuación.

In México, underage alcohol consumption is a major public health problem. Notwith-standing the complex character of alcohol consumption, evidence indicates that enforcing the policies aimed to control the availability of alcohol has produced positive outcomes and has proved to be one of the most cost-effective strategies for curbing consumption, as well as they have succeeded in reducing health and social problems associated to alcohol use.

To read the full text, please visit: https://www.issup.net/node/13635

Source: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-437r.pdf

Fast Facts

How has the need for and availability of services for mental health and substance use disorders changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Evidence suggests these conditions increased while access to care decreased.

Source: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/13745/TD0321143ENN_002.pdf

The EMCDDA releases today the third in a series of rapid ‘trendspotter’ studies exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the drug situation and responses to it.

Source: https://www.unodc.org/documents/mexicoandcentralamerica/2020/Mexico/Lineamientos_generales_sobre_violencia_de_genero_en_el_ambito_laboral_para_los_centros_de_trabajo_en_Mexico.pdf

Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/53730/OPSEIHIS210004_spa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

KYDA presented a poster on family therapy interventions taking place at their centre during the second Uganda Alcohol Policy Conference. Family therapy is a collection of therapeutic approaches that share a belief in family-level assessment and intervention. 

The poster details the objectives and approach used in these family therapy interventions, and presents a series of recommendations in the conclusion.

Source: https://iris.paho.org/bitstream/handle/10665.2/53614/PAHOEIHISCOVID-19210008_eng.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Abstract: Young adults exhibit greater sensitivity than adults to nicotine reinforcement, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) increases the risk for early-onset smoking. We investigated the correlation between ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) scores and smoking, evaluated the prevalence of ADHD symptomatology (not diagnoses) in smokers and non-smokers and its comorbidity with benzodiazepine and gambling addictions.