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A New Era for the ISSUP Nurses Network: Rekindling a Global Force for Addiction Care
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Evidence-Based Nursing Practice and Drug Demand Reduction
In Recognition of Nurses’ Week (May 6–12, 2025)
This global health, nursing-led initiative highlights the vital role of nurses in addressing substance use disorders (SUD) through evidence-based practice. The effort promotes improved health...
The Power of Collaboration Project: Substance Use Disorder treatment for women
The Power of Collaboration is a joint project between ISSUP and the GWN. This initiative delves into three critical areas in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment for women:
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MIND THE GAP: GLOBAL SURVEY EXAMINING ACCESS FOR SUBSTANCE...
Annual ISAM Global Congress 2025: Abstract Submission
Abstract submission now open until November 15, 2024
Useful information: How to submit an abstract in ConfTool
Submission Guidelines:
- Lead author must be attending ISAM 2025.
- Abstracts must be written in English.
- The study presented...
56th ASAM Annual Conference: Call for Abstracts & Proposals
Open September 4 - October 11, 2024
Goals & Objectives
ASAM members and non-members are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations, focus sessions, and workshop sessions. ASAM encourages investigators, researchers, clinicians...
IntNSA Annual Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts
Submission Deadline: Extended to October 31, 2024 at 11:59pm Central Time
The International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) invites you to submit an abstract for oral and/or poster session at the Annual Educational Conference!
The...
Submit Your Plenary Session Proposal for the 2025 NIDA International Forum
Submit Your Plenary Session Proposal for the 2025 NIDA International Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Save the date! The 2025 NIDA International Forum will take place as an in-person meeting in New Orleans...
2024 UNODC World Drug Report highlights, brief reflections.
The World Drug Report (WDR) is published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2023). It serves to collate data received from United Nations member states which enables the...
UTC Self-Led Courses Available in English & Spanish!
Expand your knowledge of #treatment and #prevention for substance use disorders - Sign Up today for a UTC self-led course. UTC Courses 1-4 & 6-8 are now available in English & Spanish. Click here for more information: https://lnkd.in/gMT...
Centre for disease control prevention factsheets: HIV and substance use
Sharing needles, syringes, or other drug injection equipment—for example, cookers—puts people at risk for getting or transmitting HIV and other infections.
In addition to being at risk for HIV and viral hepatitis, people who inject drugs...
HIV and people who use drugs: Factsheet
The 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy has bold and critical new targets on realizing human rights, reducing stigma, discrimination and violence and removing harmful punitive laws as a pathway to ending inequalities and ultimately ending AIDS.
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Grief: Helping Someone Else in the Aftermath of Loss
In the wake of loss, it can be hard to take care of those you care about who are grieving. As with self-care, there are many possible ways to offer support to someone who is grieving, and a variety of factors that affect how you can offer...
Grief: Taking Care of Yourself in the Aftermath of Loss
This factsheet, published by the National Centre for PTSD, discusses the ways in which we can engage in self-care in the wake of loss.
The factsheet provides an overview of grief and some of the theories and processes that are associated...
DECCA Big Guides
Downloadable information on alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Medications for Opioid Overdose, Withdrawal & Addiction
This infographic shows the different types of medications prescribed for opioid overdose, withdrawal, and addiction.
Medications for opioid addiction, overdose, and withdrawal work in various ways.
- Opioid Receptor Agonist: Medications...
7 Tips to Engage in Mental Health Treatment the Guatemalan Maya Families Living in the United States
Source: https://mhttcnetwork.org/sites/default/files/2020-09/7tips_maya_Families_V2.pdf
Publication Date: August 1, 2020
Developed By: National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC
Guatemalans were the sixth-largest Hispanic group living in the...
The Role of Public Organisations in Providing Assistance to Users of Psychoactive Substances: The Experience of Ukraine
ISSUP Ukraine are excited to present their Webinar on the role of public organizations in providing assistance to users of psychoactive substances, specifically focusing on the experience of Ukraine for the last 10 years.
UNODC Coronavirus Resource List
As part of the effort to provide information and support to people who use drugs, families, and professionals working in the substance use and addiction field, UNODC has produced a series of resources to guide evidence-based practice.
Here...
Alcohol and the Immune System: 4 Things You Should Know
Alcohol has a negative impact on our immune systems ability to function, leading to greater susceptibility to certain diseases.
It is particularly important that, during this pandemic, we protect our immune system in order to give...
AATOD Guidance to Opioid Treatment Programmes (OTPs) in Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As the COVID-19 global crisis continues, it is vital that Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) remain stable sources of treatment for patients receiving support for opioid use disorders.
The American Association for the Treatment of Opioid...