School-Based

Using educational settings to foster social-emotional learning and prevent the use of substances.

National Training Program on Prevention in Schools: The Paraguayan Experience

News

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2024, a public call from the Ministry of Education and Science for the contracting of a higher education institution to design and implement a training programme in strategies for preventing psychoactive substance use...

Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances

Scientific article

14 March 2025

Background Child poverty is linked to poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes, and long-term social and psychological issues, all of which increase service demand and costs. Traditionally, prevention and early...

Feasibility Study of Linking Anonymous Data of Children in Longitudinal School-Based Prevention Research

Scientific article

30 September 2024

INTRODUCTION: Longitudinal prevention research in adolescents often involves sensitive data collection, necessitating anonymity. Self-Generated Identification Codes (SGICs) have emerged as a tool for linking anonymous data while preserving...

A Reflection on Prevention Systems: A European perspective

Guide

22 November 2024

Prevention science over the past years has accumulated evidence on the effectiveness of drug prevention interventions (Sloboda et al. 2014). In Europe this improvement has been a consequence of priorities defined by EU drug strategies since...

Components of a drug prevention system (EMCDDA, 2019)