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Recovery Support
The ongoing process through which individuals achieve improved health, wellness, and quality of life while striving for abstinence or reduced substance use.
Recovery Pathways Online Course
This online course introduces the science of addiction recovery and looks at the evidence on recovery pathways in Europe.
Recovery Pathways has a particular focus on gender differences in how people recover and what happens at different...
Measuring and Operationalising Recovery Capital
Recovery capital helps us better understand the process of recovering from a substance use disorder and determine the success of recovery and treatment interventions, improve coping strategies, and enhance an individuals’ quality of life in...
Recovery Support: Reading List
Recovery is a process that often takes significant time and effort to achieve and maintain. Here you will find a selection of resources and pieces of research relating to the topic of recovery support. You can also join the ISSUP recovery...
Expanding Access to and Use of Behavioural Health Services for People At Risk for or Experiencing Homelessness
This guide highlights strategies for behavioural health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioural health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and...
ISSUP Poster for Lisbon Addictions 2022: Study on substance use and the role of families in Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Ukraine
The fourth European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies took place in Lisbon from 23-25 November 2022.
Under the overarching theme of Global Addictions, LxAddictions22 showcased cutting-edge research to help characterise...
Registration Open: NAADAC's Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Co-occurring Disorders & SUD Specialty Online Training Series
NAADAC's Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Co-occurring Disorders & SUD Specialty Online Training Series is designed for helping professionals who are dedicated to learning about co-occurring disorders in the field of addiction...
Reflective Assessment-A Unique Model for Universal Population Prevention
A one-day training was organized by Teacher Training Academy to equip the teachers to become reflective on their interaction with the students. The assessment of student behavior and interest in intellectual and recreational activities were...
A Practical DBT Workbook for Radically Eliminating Neurodivergent Disorders: How to Help You Confront Your Social Anxiety Triggers and Improve Your Interpersonal Effectiveness and Social Skills
- The 4 core skills of dialectical behavior therapy, and how they can benefit people with neurodivergent conditions (ADHD, Autistic, Dyslexia ,Dyspraxia and Tourette Syndrome etc.. because they have high probability of developing addictions...
Inter-glam Bursary Award for Pakistani Delegate Participation in Lisbon Addictions
During the second last month of 2022, November 22-24 an international conference was held successfully at the Lisbon Congress Center in Portugal with the collaboration of SICAD, EMCDDA and the Portuguese Directorate. Organized by Clinic in...
From Darkness to Light of Hope- More Prevention, Less Suicide! Drug Use and Suicide Prevention
6th conference is going to be held at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore which has organized a pre-conference workshop for students and professionals about suicide and addiction. The theme of the conference is suicide...
Experiences of frontline healthcare workers and their views about support during COVID-19 and previous pandemics: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
Background
Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health...
Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward
ISSUP Malaysia would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar on Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward.
The webinar is to inform and raise awareness on critical issues in the...
The Substance Use Professional’s Guide to Addressing Medical Cannabis in Substance Use Treatment Settings
Substance use in Gender Dysphoria (Transgenders) and their Mental Health
An event at a NGO in Lahore was organized to address the mental health and substance use among those living with gender dysphoria. They have complex challenges that vary from bullying, harassment, prejudice, discrimination in support and...
Centro comunitario de salud mental éxitos en la prevención y tratamiento de personas que consumen sustancias psicoactivas
ISSUP Perú te invita a participar de un webinar sobre servicios comunitarios de prevención y control de adicciones.
El webinar se llevará a cabo el jueves 20 de octubre de 2022 a las 11:00 (hora Perú)
Este webinar analiza la actividad que...
Mental Health and Substance Use: Reading List
Mental health and substance use issues are commonly linked, and it is important that practitioners are skilled and knowledgeable in identifying and working with the potential challenges an individual may be facing. For World Mental Health...
Coping with Life After Prison
Psychologists are playing pivotal roles in reentry programs, but more research and investment are needed to help incarcerated individuals build successful lives after leaving prison.
This article, published in the American Psychological...
Substance Use and the Role of Families. Results of a Cross-Country Study in Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine
BACKGROUND:
In many countries families have rarely been involved in addressing treatment and interventions for family members with substance use disorders (SUDs). The aims of this study were to measure the influence of substance use on...
Integrating Mindfulness into Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This virtual presentation is sponsored by the Southeast ATTC Regional Center and will focus on supporting the education and skill development of providers who work with people with substance use disorders (SUDS) by integrating mindfulness...
International Recovery Month Celebrated
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