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Supporting the Journey: A Reading List for Addiction Nurses

Publication Date

16 травня 2025

Format

Reading List

Themes

Prevention

Community-Based

Psychoactive Substances

Treatment

Treatment Settings

Practice

Training

Recovery Support

Recovery-Oriented Services

Substances

Best Practice Guidelines

Professional Development and Training

Reading List

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.

National Training Program on Prevention in Schools: The Paraguayan Experience

Format

News

Themes

Prevention

School-Based

Psychoactive Substances

Populations

Children, Adolescents and Youth Women LGBTQ+

Partner Organisation

ISSUP Paraguay

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In 2024, a public call from the Ministry of Education and Science for the contracting of a higher education institution to design and implement a training programme in strategies for preventing psychoactive substance...

Perceived impacts of North Americas first de-medicalised safer supply program

Publication Date

10 березня 2025

Format

Scientific article

Themes

Prevention

Psychoactive Substances

Substances

Public Health

Background
A non-medicalized safer supply model called a “Compassion Club” has recently been evaluated. The model involved providing rigorously tested and accurately labeled illicit substances to members at cost. Operating for 14 months in...

Substance Use Monitoring and Surveillance: Challenges faced by LMICs

Publication Date

24 січня 2025

Format

Opinion piece, commentary

Themes

Prevention

Psychoactive Substances

New Psychoactive Substances

Opioids

Stimulants

Substances

Addiction

Populations

Quality Assurance

Monitoring and Evaluation

Public Health

Epidemiology, Aetiology and Statistics

Global Health Perspectives

Policy Advocacy

Statistics

Evaluation

Policy

Epidemiology and Etiology

Substance use surveillance has emerged as a crucial public health strategy across Africa, particularly in light of the alarming rise in substance use among adolescents (1). This trend poses significant health risks that require a...