Practice

61st Regular Session of CICAD

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Washington DC
United States

The sixty-first regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) will be held in Washington, D.C., April 24-26, 2017. The draft agenda for the meeting as well as all other documentation (Draft Schedule of Activities, Information Bulletin with registration instructions, reports and presentations) will be posted on CICAD’s webpage www.cicad.oas.org in due course.

2nd National Youth Forum on Prevention of Drug Abuse

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New Delhi
India

The Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses (SPYM) held the 2nd National Youth Forum on Prevention of Drug Abuse on the 18th of February 2017 in New Delhi with the support of Vishwa Yuvak Kenda (International Youth Centre). Over 300 young people from selected colleges and institutions recommended various drug use prevention measures which could be considered for implementation by both the Government and Civil Society

Participants at the 2nd National Youth Forum on Prevention of Drug Abuse

Preventing and Treating Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth

Scientific article
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The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued a new evidence-based guideline for combatting tobacco use by children and young adults aged 5 – 18, suggesting that physicians ought to have a more active role in the prevention...

Good Policy and Practice in Health Education

Book
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Booklet 10: Education sector responses to the use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs The latest volume in the Good Policy and Practice in Health Education Series has been developed via international consultation between the United Nations...

Does AA Really Help Drinkers Stop?

Scientific article
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12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...