Substance Use Health: The Doorways to Stigma Free Health Outcomes
CAPSA and CCSA host a FREE Online event on the topic of "Substance Use Health: The Doorways to Stigma Free Health Outcomes" on March 9th.
Practice
Overcoming the pains of recovery: The management of negative recovery capital during addiction recovery pathways
Abstract: Pains experienced as a result of negative recovery capital are often thought to stimulate motivations for positive behavioural change, usually through a ‘rock bottom’ type moment. Whilst recovery capital and barriers to recovery...
Alcohol and suicide
Drinking alcohol can increase someone's risk of dying by suicide. This is connected to both the impact of long-term alcohol use and the immediate effects of drinking. Samaritans and Suicide Prevention Consortium have conducted research...
The Role of Law Enforcement in Community-wide Prevention Programming
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Implementing evidence-based prevention programming at the community level warrants the support and involvement of many community resources—schools, health care providers, families, children and social services, faith-based organizations, and law enforcement, to list but a few. |
The Politics of Alcohol
The UK-Ireland Alcohol Research Network (AcoRN) would like to invite you to its second webinar, which will be held via Zoom on Thursday 10th February from 1pm to 2:30pm. The webinar will be exploring another key research area of the network: Alcohol and policymaking.
Risks and Harms Associated with the Nonmedical Use of Benzodiazepines in the Unregulated Drug Supply in Canada
Summary Substance use risks are significantly higher for people who obtain drugs on the unregulated market as there is no quality control and drug contents are unpredictable. This lack of predictability has increased during the COVID-19...
Concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach
This manual introduces a concept of trauma and offers a framework for becoming a trauma-informed organisation, system, or service sector. The manual provides a definition of trauma and a trauma-informed approach and offers 6 key principles...
The intersection of homelessness, trauma, and substance use: Reading list
This reading list is designed to complement the webinar presented by Lili Lemieux-Cumberlege on trauma, homelessness, and substance use. The presentation explored the subject through a personal, interpersonal, and systemic lens, and...
Introducing compassion focused therapy
Compassion focused therapy (CFT) is based on the evolutionary, functional analysis of basic social motivational systems (e.g., to exist within groups and care for kin) and emotional systems (e.g., to respond to threats, seek out contentment...
