Coordinated efforts between law enforcement, courts, treatment providers, and social services to reduce reoffending, promote recovery, and address the underlying causes of drug-related crime.
Responding to Drug-Related Offending
Call for Master Trainers for the Case Care Management Project
Brief Description: The Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (ES-CICAD) is seeking expressions of interest from experts in the field of alternatives to incarceration and social integration to be trained...
Approach to the health situation of adolescents and young people linked to the Criminal Responsibility System
Technical document of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, is built from an approach to the international evidence on health of adolescents and young people linked to judicial systems; recognizes the national evidence of the...
Differences in addiction and recovery gains according to gender – gender barriers and specific differences in overall strengths growth
Background The necessity of a gendered understanding of recovery is becoming increasingly evident. There have been reports of gender disparities in the character and amount of substance use, the paths to and through substance use disorder...
Join us at the COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS this week!
Dear friends and colleagues, The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing...
Sex Trafficking and Substance Use Identifying High-Priority Needs Within the Criminal Justice System
Substance use disorder (SUD) is common among victims of sex trafficking. Traffickers may exploit individuals' existing opioid use or other SUDs to coerce them into sex trafficking, or they may facilitate substance use to keep trafficking...
Law Enforcement in Prevention Programming
An APSI Prevention Talk on how to appropriately engage law enforcement in the implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies, with specific reference to the prevention of substance use.
Inter-GLAM video contest
Introduction Inter-GLAM is a European project, co-funded by the European Union’s DG Justice Programme "Drugs Policy Initiatives - Supporting initiatives in the field of drugs policy” (JUST-2019-AG-DRUGS). The project aims to collaborate...
Global Family Systems: Psychosocial Resilience during Covid-19
ISSUP UK are pleased to present their Webinar on Global Family Systems: Psychosocial Resilience during COVID-19.
UNODC Supports the Launch of ISSUP Indonesia Chapter
Indonesia has been promoting science-based and ethical services to improve the health, well-being and recovery of affected individuals with drug use disorders and increase public safety to all drug use disorders treatment providers both at...
Trends in Buprenorphine Use in US Jails and Prisons From 2016 to 2021
Source: Thakrar AP, Alexander GC, Saloner B. Trends in Buprenorphine Use in US Jails and Prisons From 2016 to 2021. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(12):e2138807. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.38807 Discussion In the US, buprenorphine use...