Community-Based

Community-level awareness, altering social norms, and building resilience. 

Webinar reflection: Exploring Multiple Pathways of Recovery

Community update
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ISSUP, in collaboration with Faces & Voices of Recovery, has launched a new Global Recovery Network webinar series to spotlight diverse perspectives on recovery. The first webinar featured Dr. Haner Hernández, a respected expert in the...
Title slide for PowerPoint presentation titled Exploring Pathways of Recovery by Dr Haner Hernández.

HEALING BEYOND SOBRIETY

Community update
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Recovery is more than achieving sobriety – it is about building resilience for lifelong wellness. While traditional addiction treatment focuses on abstinence, true recovery requires comprehensive post-treatment support that addresses mental...
Sammy Ombisa Recovery Ally - Workforce

Supporting the Journey: A Reading List for Addiction Nurses

Reading List
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As we celebrate International Nurses Week, we honour the dedication, expertise, and compassion of nurses around the globe—especially those working on the frontlines of substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery support. Addiction nurses play a crucial role not only in clinical care but also in education, advocacy, and research.
ISSUP Reading List

Exploring cultural experiences of stigma

 - Online

The stigma of drug and alcohol use within some minoritised communities can create barriers to treatment, leading to poorer health outcomes and inequality of access to support needed. 

Join our guest speakers as they talk about this and answer your questions on some of the complexities involved in additional barriers to accessing support. All welcome. 

Host - Navi Dhesi. 

A rationale for an orientation towards systems of prevention

Opinion piece, commentary
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Prevention aligned with science and standards advocates for a person-focused rather than a drug-focused perspective when articulating responses and services. Such a perspective follows a narrative that early initiation to substance use is...
Prevention dominos

Community-based prevention systems

Opinion piece, commentary
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Community-based models form an important component in alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug (substance) abuse prevention systems. Community models target both place-based communities and distinct sub-populations (e.g., defined by common...