We had some problems with the YouTube video link so here it is in Zoom.
This is a video of the single-session evidence-based SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness Program for high school adolescents.
We’d greatly appreciate it if after reviewing...
Resource Description: Describes what are e-cigarettes, how they work, how they affect the brain, their health effects, and can they help a person stop smoking.: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/electronic-cigarettes-e...
Introducing a project run since 2016 by the Preventive Education and Training Unit of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board of Sri Lanka. This project is called "Sujatha Daruwo" or "legitimize children" in English.
Project delivery...
Recording of the first webinar from the ISAM Webinar Series on COVID-19 and SUD: A Global Perspective on Challenges and Solutions. For those of you who weren't able to attend the first webinar, here is the video-recording along with slides...
Conclusions: Our study did show a significant reduction in affective symptoms in both groups, but the differences in reduction of affective symptoms between the intervention and control groups were not significant. There were also no...
Dear Friends:
Prevention Plus Wellness is inviting prevention and health specialists to review the newly updated SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness High School Program in recorded video format for youth.
If you agree to review this 26-minute...
We created this short 8-minute video of an evidence-informed resource for prevention and health specialists and organizations to share with their youth and young adults.
It includes a short description of the web-based resource, a youth...
An awareness seminar, organised for students of Social Work Department, Government Faqir Muhammad Faqir (FMF) College, Gujranwala by Mian Afzal Trust Hospital (MATH), took place in the MATH Conference Hall.
A large number students and...
Following advice to avoid public institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of libraries have been closed to members of the public.
In response, the online academic resource JSTOR has clarified that much of its database is...
Opioid prescriptions increased by 68% from 2010 to 2016 for new dental procedures among people not previously prescribed opioids. This study sheds light on the potential of unnecessary prescribing of opioids for dental procedures especially...
The Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is looking to hire an international consultant where under the supervision of the Programme Officer (UNODC/PTRS) the consultant is...
Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of smoking behaviour on campus and to identify the key factors that influence adherence to a campus smoke-free policy.
Design & participants: This study employed a...
Main Afzal Trust Hospital (MATH), Gujranwala, Pakistan reopens treatment & rehabilitation services for women and children/adolescents in a new twenty bed block.
This project was previously supported by Colombo Plan and INL.
This project...
Here are four online and distance-learning strategies for providing evidence-based and evidence-informed Prevention Plus Wellness programs during the COVID-19 outbreak.
They include: 1) Recorded video programs, 2) Live streamed programs...
Dr. João Paulo Lotufo, pediatra, membro da Comissão de Tabagismo da Associação Médica Brasileira, diretor da ISSUP Brasil e parceiro do Freemind, neste vídeo traz fatos e dicas sobre a relação entre o coronavirus e o tabagismo.
Um estudo...
The Pandemic Project is a social psychology initiative that is studying how our everyday lives are affected by the coronavirus outbreak. For many of us, our worlds, our work, and our social relationships are changing. The research team...
Dear ISSUP members,
My name is Andia Meksi and I would like to share with you some information regarding UTC training held in Tirana, Albania.
The Colombo Plan- Drug Advisory Program and the University of California, San Diego in...
Researchers attempted to assess the global harms associated with marijuana use and potentially define risky marijuana use in a systematic review of systematic reviews. Forty-four systematic reviews including over 1053 diverse studies were...
The International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) believes that the impact of this pandemic on people struggling with Substance Use Disorders could not be overlooked.
Thus they have decided to take this opportunity to hold a series of...
This seminar provides a preliminary examination of the range of information available on opioid overdose in Australia’s largest and only active cohort study of people who use drugs.
Penny Hill from the Burnet Institute explores a range of...
