Theories and Science

Application of scientific theories and research to understand and prevent substance use, including prevention science.

Interventions to Integrate Care for People with Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Scoping Review Protocol

Scientific article

30 October 2019

Abstract Introduction: People with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorders (SUDs) have an elevated risk of premature mortality compared with the general population. This has been attributed to higher rates of chronic...

Why is Adolescent Drinking Declining?

Scientific article

There has been a notable decline in adolescent drinking in developed nations over the past two decades. Understanding the reasons behind this positive downward trend will help professionals support the continuation of this decline into the...

Transference vs. Countertransference: What’s the big deal?

Website

You may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of new terms, theories, and practices you are learning. With all of the clinical information, you are consuming it can be easy to gloss over the concepts of transference and countertransference...

SPR 2020 Call for Papers Now Open!

News

This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution...

Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Offspring Alcohol Use

Scientific article

Despite increasing awareness of the negative consequences of alcohol, rates of consumption among young adults remain high. Longitudinal studies provide insight into the risk and protective factors in a young persons life that might increase...

Youth Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Disorders

Book

70%–80% of adolescents with a substance use disorder also manifest comorbid psychopathology, known also as co-occurring disorders or dual diagnosis. Co-occurring disorders are the presence of one or more comorbid psychiatric disorders in...

ADIKTOLOGIE Journal

Book

ADIKTOLOGIE is an international journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific reports on psychoactive substance use, other behavioural addictions and related issues.

Call for Global Trainers

News

ISSUP and UNODC announce the formation of a pool of Global Trainers with the support of the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).

Claremont’s UPC Media Summer Institute Programme

News

Claremont Graduate University is offering one of the leading certificate programs for the advanced study of Media-Based Prevention Science.

Ancient Philosophers on Mental Illness

Scientific article

9 October 2018

Abstract This article explores how the ancient philosophers from Plato to late antiquity understood mental illness. It outlines when, how and in what kind of contexts the phenomenon of mental illness was recognized in the ancient...