Gilberto Gerra, Chief of the Drug Prevention and Health Branch at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opens the meeting on the "Technical consultation on updating the prevention standards" at UNODC headquarters in Vienna.
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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...
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research...
Contesto: L'assenza dei genitori, dovuta alla morte o alla separazione da un genitore, è stata associata al fumo e al consumo di alcol nell'adolescenza e nell'età adulta. Lo scopo di questo studio era quello di indagare se l...
Background
Screening and brief interventions for alcohol are an effective public health measure to tackle alcohol-related harm, however relatively few countries across the European Union (EU) have implemented them widely. This may be due...
Ricerche precedenti hanno trovato forti associazioni tra l'uso pericoloso di alcol da parte degli adolescenti e la loro percezione del comportamento dei coetanei, così come i propri soldi da spendere e una serie di...
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Gli Stati Uniti hanno registrato un forte aumento dell'incidenza del virus dell'epatite C (HCV) che può essere attribuito all'uso di droghe per iniezione. Alcuni stati hanno utilizzato...
Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United...
Il tabacco è la prima causa di morte prevenibile in tutto il mondo. Una Cochraine Review pubblicata di recente ha rilevato che confezioni di tabacco standardizzate o semplici potrebbero rendere i prodotti del tabacco meno attraenti e, a...
Una nuova ricerca pubblicata su The British Medical Journal sostiene la necessità di aumentare le tasse sui prodotti del tabacco nell'Asia meridionale, suggerendo che così facendo si potrebbe ridurre il consumo di almeno 1/3 e, a sua volta...
Psychosocial interventions are psychological or social interventions used to tackle issues related to substance abuse and behavioural addictions. They can be employed to identify and treat problems, as well as to assist with user...
An updated version of the publication Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is now available in English. Global in scope, it provides an up-to-date review of prevention science...
New research published in The Lancet Public Health suggests that global smoking rates have decreased by 2.5% following the introduction of the global tobacco control treaty. The treaty obligates the 180 countries committed to it to...
What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths.
What is added by this report?
Approximately two...
This document provides evidence for arguments supporting alcohol marketing regulation, and suggests key elements that can be considered by countries in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating effective regulation. It also...
A recent paper published in the International Journal of Drug Policy addresses the current health responses to new psychoactive substances (NPS), highlighting key issues to inform the planning and implementation of adequate responses in the...
