The National Prevention Week webinar series supports organizations working on the front lines of prevention.
NPW webinars provide information and resources to states, SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) grantees, and local community-based organizations to raise awareness and educate communities on prevention topics.
Впровадження замісної опіоїдної терапії в Південному Африка
Location: Johannesburg, Південна Африка
Запрошуємо вас відвідати майбутню вебінарну зустріч з метою обговорення ролі державних установ у розробці та впровадженні заходів з інфікування ВІЛ серед людей, які вживають наркотики, зокрема опіоїдної замісної терапії (ЗПТ), у Південній Африка.
Description
Community action is one of ten action areas outlined in the WHO Global Alcohol Strategy, highlighting how important community involvement is for preventing and reducing alcohol harm.
Uniting the global community to face the challenge of addiction
Location: Abu Dhabi
ICUDDR, INL, ISSUP and NRC were delighted to partner to bring together the global in person and online event which took place 12th – 16th May 2022 in Abu Dhabi.
Safeguarding Public Health: Managing Conflict of Interest and Interference in Alcohol Policy to Support the Safer Implementation
Location: Online
The objective of this webinar is to support decision-makers who protect effective alcohol regulations by raising awareness of conflicts of interests, summarizing the current evidence on interference from the alcohol industry in public health policy as well as discuss best practices. We will describe the fundamental conflict of interest that exists between the alcohol industry’s objectives and public health purposes and bring clear and current examples of the way this involvement unfolds and the consequences for public health.
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) invite you to join us online on Monday 23 May from 12.30-14.00 BST (UK time) for our third SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals event of 2022.
Dependencia al alcohol y deterioro cognitivo: más allá de la demencia alcohólica
Location: Ciudad de México, Мексика
Lunes 23 de mayo del 2022, 10: 00 AM (hora de la Ciudad de México)
El abuso del consumo de alcohol se había asociado tradicionalmente a la aparición primero de encefalitis alcohólica, seguida de una demencia específica atribuida a la deficiencia vitamínica (Tiamina).
Towards ambitious alcohol policy: challenges and opportunities
Location: Geneva
Background
The decade after the adoption of the WHO Global Alcohol Strategy has not yielded significant progress in the development of alcohol policy solutions and reductions in alcohol harms.
Alcohol’s contribution to the global burden of disease has been increasing. In high income countries alcohol use is the second fasted growing risk factor and in LMICs it is the fourth fastest rising risk factor for the global disease burden.
EMCDDA webinar: Knowing youth — digital platforms for decision making
Location: Online
Objective: The main objective of this webinar is to explore and better understand the potential use of youth survey data in policy and prevention planning in a digital world.
The cardiovascular risks and benefits of quit smoking medicines
Location: Online
In this presentation, the speakers will report the results of a series of three population-based cohort studies relating to the use and effects of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies. The first of these studies provides evidence on how the three smoking cessation pharmacotherapies available in Australia (nicotine replacement therapy, varenicline and bupropion) compare to each other in terms of cardiovascular safety.
The Kettil Bruun Society are pleased to announce the 47th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society: May 30 – June 3, 2022 in Warsaw, Poland hosted by the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology & the National Centre for Prevention of Addictions.
The conference will take place in the on-site, traditional format. KBS remain hopeful that the epidemic situation in May 2022 will allow it. However, they will inform you of any significant developments as they arise.
Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Annual Meeting
Location: Seattle
Mark your calendars to attend the most important prevention science conference–the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 30thAnnual Meeting that will be held in-person May 31 – June 3, 2022. This year’s theme is “Realizing the Power of Prevention Through Equitable Dissemination & Implementation Science.”
The SPR 2022 Annual Meeting will be held in person at the Hyatt Regency Seattle, Seattle, WA.
