Society for Prevention Research (SPR)

Website

http://www.preventionresearch.org

The Society for Prevention Research is an organization dedicated to advancing scientific investigation on the etiology and prevention of social, physical and mental health, and academic problems and on the translation of that information to promote health and well-being.

The multi-disciplinary membership of SPR is international and includes scientists, practitioners, advocates, administrators, and policy makers who value the conduct and dissemination of prevention science worldwide.

Psychiatric Symptoms in Individuals Who Use Ketamine Versus Methamphetamine

Scientific article

Yanhui Liao Introduction: Chronic use of both Ketamine (“K powder”) and methamphetamine (MA, “ice”) can induce psychiatric symptoms. This study aimed at exploring drug-induced psychiatric symptoms in chronic ketamine users and MA users...

Risk and Resilience among Out-Of-School Youth in South Africa

Scientific article

Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Renette J Blignaut, Innocent Karangwa, Elizabeth Weybright, Linda Lee Caldwell, Edward Allan Smith South African youth experience many challenges including unemployment, poverty, disorganised families, health...

Society for Prevention Research 26th Annual Meeting

29 May 2018

Washington, D.C.

United States

Mark your calendars to attend the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 26th Annual Meeting that will be held in Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill.

This year’s theme is “Optimizing the Relevance of Prevention Science to Systems.”

ISSUP at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting

News

Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...

2017 Society for Prevention Research Annual Meeting

30 May 2017

Washington, DC