Policy
State of the Nation
Published by
New Zealand Drug Foundation Report
The third edition of NZ Drug Foundation annual report on how New Zealand is dealing with alcohol and other drugs was published in December 2020.
The aim of State of the Nation is to provide a backdrop against which we can assess the impact of any policy changes.
WHO Launches Year-long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco
The World Health Organisation has launched a year long campaign to help people quit their tobacco use. As part of the campaign “Commit to Quit" the WHO have announced a new Quit Challenge on WhatsApp and have published “More than 100 reasons to quit tobacco". The WHO describe the campaign: “Commit to Quit” will help create healthier environments that are conducive to quitting tobacco by advocating for strong tobacco cessation policies; increasing access to cessation
dataUNODC
Created by
UNODC
UNODC’ data portal, dataUNODC allows users to find all its data on drugs and crime.
Information is grouped under the following headings:
Nudge Theory and Alcohol Policy: How Nudge Might Shape Drinking
Published by
Institute of Alcohol Studies
Summary
- Nudge theory aims to understand human decision making in order to optimise the outcomes from choices for decision makers.
Who Cares if They Die? They're Only Junkies.
Online, United Kingdom,
About this Event
The number of drug-related deaths in the past year will soon be published. Catriona Matheson, Chair of the Drug Deaths Taskforce (DDTF), has suggested that the number of deaths of in 2019 will be higher than the unacceptable level of 2018.
Tobacco regulation in 2021: Changes following EU exit
Online,
This webinar, co-hosted by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Fresh, and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), covers the immediate changes being made to the regulatory system in relation to tobacco products following the UK’s departure from the EU on December 31st 2020.
Domestic Violence, Substance Misuse and Mental Ill-health: The Toxic Trio
Citation
Skinner, G. C., Bywaters, P. W., Bilson, A., Duschinsky, R., Clements, K., & Hutchinson, D. (2020). The ‘Toxic Trio’(domestic violence, substance misuse and mental ill-health): how good is the evidence base?. Children and Youth Services Review, 105678.
Publication Date
Within research examining adverse childhood experiences, the toxic trio describes the risk of child abuse and neglect stemming from a child’s exposure to domestic violence, parental mental health issues and/or learning disability, and parental substance misuse.
In this systematic review, researchers examine the evidence underpinning the ‘toxic trio’ in child safeguarding policy and practice.
New Online Trainings for Professionals Working in the Field of Substance Use Disorders
Created by
International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA)
In this video, Charlotte Sisson, Senior Foreign Affairs Officer within the Office of Global Programmes and Policy in the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, introduces the audience to the work of the INL, Colombo Plan and ISSUP.
Reconvened 63rd CND session
Vienna,
The reconvened sixty-third session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will be held from 2 to 4 December 2020 starting at 11 am and 3 pm at the Vienna International Centre, as well as via virtual platform. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions only members of the Commission may attend the meeting in person.