Questa guida, sviluppata da e per le persone che lavorano negli Stati membri dei Caraibi, presenta un modello di indicatori per i paesi che desiderano standardizzare il modo in cui organizzano, raccolgono e comunicano le informazioni...
Obiettivo: Le percezioni degli adolescenti cinesi sul controllo del tabacco nelle scuole sono raramente studiate. Abbiamo esplorato come funzionano le attuali strategie antifumo negli ambienti delle scuole medie, nonché gli...
Un glossario della terminologia delle politiche sulle droghe prodotto dal Drug Policy Network South East Europe è ora disponibile in inglese e spagnolo.
Il Drug Policy Network South East Europe (DPNSEE) è un'iniziativa di ONG dei paesi...
Sono aperte le iscrizioni per il Premio per la prevenzione del Gruppo Pompidou. Il Gruppo Pompidou è la piattaforma di cooperazione del Consiglio d'Europa per le politiche in materia di droga.
Il Premio prevenzione viene assegnato per...
Sono aperte le candidature per gli European Health Awards. Coordinati dall'European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), i premi sono assegnati a iniziative di sanità pubblica e assistenza sanitaria in Europa.
Il premio si concentra sulle...
A study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Fatal and Non-Fatal Overdose among Opiate Users in South Wales: A Qualitative Study of Peer Responses, explores the behaviour of witnesses to opiate overdoses.
The research...
È stata pubblicata la seconda edizione della pubblicazione, International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, pubblicata dall'Ufficio delle Nazioni Unite contro la droga e il crimine (UNODC) e dall'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità . Il...
The reach of alcohol’s harm to others (AH2O) across Irish society is evident within families, among friends, in the workplace, and is felt by strangers in public spaces. Health, social and law enforcement services become...
Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we...
Summary
Guidelines for levels of alcohol use that pose a low risk to drinkers' health are provided by many countries, usually based on meta-analyses of epidemiological studies.1–3 However, to devise such guidelines is challenging because...
A study published in the Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy journal details the prevalence of substance use amongst students from Debre Berhan University in Central Ethiopia.
Substance use behaviors of 695 students were...
The United Kingdom Focal Point on Drugs (UK Focal Point) 2017 report is available on the UK government's digital portal.
Based at Public Health England, the UK Focal Point is the national partner of the European Monitoring Centre for...
A study exploring the factors leading to menstrual cycle irregularity and menopause has discovered smoking may contribute to irregular menstrual cycles. The research, carried out in Korea, also found an association with the early initiation...
Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are rapidly emerging into a new trend among adolescents, signaling a new époque, that of vapers. E-cigarettes are battery-powered nicotine delivery devices that heat a typically flavoring...
As a result of America’s current addiction epidemic, babies and pre-school age children are being accidentally exposed at unacceptably high rates to toxic, addictive substances including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine...
Alcohol and drug use are leading causes of morbidity and mortality that frequently go unidentified in medical settings. As part of a multi-phase study to implement electronic health record-integrated substance use...
Le informazioni sanitarie digitali sui rischi delle droghe sono disponibili attraverso il sito web dell'Australian Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF ). Il database online ricercabile, Drug Facts, contiene informazioni su una serie di...
A study published in the Lancet details the discovery of a link between the respiratory disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and childhood exposure to parental smoking or childhood illnesses, such as asthma, bronchitis...
A study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found an association with young people being exposed to adverts for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and taking up smoking later in life.
The study followed 10 989...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Health and Human Services US Government Department (HSS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have collaborated to create a manual on...
