Substance use issues affecting specific groups, considering their unique risk factors and needs.
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World Drug Report 2025: Webinar on Key Trends and Policy Challenges for Africa
As a follow-up to our previous webinar outlining the Key Findings of the World Drug Report 2025, ISSUP on 28 August 2025 presented a review of the World Drug Report 2025 through an African lens. The webinar was moderated by Radolf Nortey...
From Drug Use Prevention to Social Integration: Social Determinants of Drug Use
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, or age, gender, ethnic group, among other dimensions, affect a wide range of outcomes and risks such as drug use.
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 CEST (Vienna Time)
Moderating:
Giovanna Campello, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Oriol Esculies, Association Proyecto Hombre, Spain
Community-based Approach in Asia: Integration of SUD Services at the Grassroots Level
Addiction and social issues remain a persistent global challenge, demanding innovative, integrated, and sustainable approaches for effective intervention related to prevention, treatment, recovery and after care, rehabilitation and social reintegration. The growing prevalence of substance use, abuse and use disorders (SUD), particularly in disadvantaged and marginalized groups, underscores the need for comprehensive and sustainable intervention strategies to mitigate their impact at the grassroots level.
Silent Struggles: Substance Use Among Africa's Underserved Populations
This webinar will explore the complex intersection of substance use and social vulnerability. Systemic, environmental, and individual risk factors will be presented together with culturally competend prevention, treatment, and recovery strategies.
Time: August 18, 2025 @ 8:00AM EST
Presenters:
Sr Immaculate Muthoni, Legal Officer, Catholic University of Eastern Africa
World Drug Report 2025: Key Trends and Policy Challenges for Africa
ISSUP Global, UNODC, and the African Union presents their webinar on the World Drug Report 2025, focusing on key trends and policy challenges for Africa.
World Drug Report 2025: Key Trends and Policy Challenges for Africa
ISSUP Global, UNODC, and the African Union invite you to an upcoming webinar on the World Drug Report 2025, focusing on key trends and policy challenges for Africa.
Global hepatitis webinar – Let's break it down!
World Hepatitis Day 2025 global webinar will provide a critical platform for collaboration with partners and engagement with governments, health professionals and the public to drive advocacy, awareness and action to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health problem.
Trauma in families affected by substance use
Join our training course equip practitioners to work more effectively with families affected by substance use where there is trauma. Participants will learn the neuroscience of trauma and practical strategies to support families.
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm UK
Trainer: Rebekah Allon-Smith
Tickets: £100
World Drug Report 2025
On July 2nd, 2025, ISSUP had the privilege of hosting a webinar outlining highlights from the 2025 edition of the World Drug Report (WDR), presented by Ms. Giovanna Campello, Chief of the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section at...
Risk Behavior Among Slovak and Czech Adolescents Through the Lens of Self-Regulation, Prosociality, and Antisociality
INTRODUCTION: In the present article, we focused on the relationship between risk behaviour in adolescents, self-regulation, pro-sociality and anti-sociality. We work under the assumption that the development of the ability to self-regulate...