Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Prevention
The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities
In a new editorial in World Psychiatry, Prof. Helen L. Fisher discusses how public health must recognise the influence of social circumstances and experiences and calls for lived experience to be at the centre of this revolution. Fisher...
Handbook on Youth Participation in Drug Prevention Work
The goal of the present handbook is to offer encouragement, examples, rationales and concrete advice on how to increase youth participation in substance use prevention, harnessing the insights of young people on the most important target...
Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 32nd Annual Meeting
Mark your calendars to attend the most important prevention science conference–the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 32nd Annual Meeting held in person May 28 – 31, 2024. This year’s theme is “Advancing Partnerships and Collaborative Approaches in Prevention Science.”
WAVE Bursaries to attend Lisbon Addictions 2024
The WAVE bursary application process is open from 24/10/2023 to 31/1/2024.
UGANDA NATIONAL ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICY
The Government of Uganda (GOU) is making every possible effort to improve the health and socio-economic conditions of the people of Uganda in line with the policy of poverty eradication. The government recognizes the role that alcohol plays...
Civil society submission and appearance to the Health and Trade Committees of the Parliament of Uganda.
Since inception in 2009, Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance (UAPA) has actively collaborated with various government and stakeholders, including Parliamentarians, the Ministry of Health, Uganda Cancer Institute, the Ministry of Education and...
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session).
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)
ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to the 20th session of its next bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic of 'Brief Intervention for Substance Abuse: ASSIST Model.'
5th Annual NIH HEAL Initiative Scientific Meeting
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 to Thursday, February 8, 2024
Hybrid - Virtual and Bethesda, Maryland
European Drugs Summer School 2024
Our two week in-person Summer School (24th of June to 05th of July 2024) prepares professionals and students to meet the complex policy challenges that face Europe and the World in the field of drugs.
