Health & Justice Responses 

Drug-Treatment Systems in Prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe

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This research project on drug-treatment systems in prisons in Eastern and South-East Europe looks in detail into the situation of drug users among criminal justice populations and the corresponding health-care responses in nine countries in...

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Statistics

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Executive Summary Data collected in drug treatment agencies play a prominent role in informing policy makers. Such data often represent the only information collected regularly and consistently over a certain period of time. What is even...

Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults

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Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...

Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention

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Published by the Society for Prevention Research in 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention is an important document for those working within substance use prevention. With the aim of professionalising the field, it...

Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 5: Safeguarding the Community

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Time to consolidate the lessons of the course’s last five instalments about treatment intended to safeguard the community, the final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. A common theme is the contradiction between treatment centred on the...

Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention

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This guide presents information on raising children to be drug free. It includes: An overview of substance use among youth, with a focus on how it can affect academic performance Drug descriptions Risk factors that could make youth more...