Drug Policy Evaluation: A Seven-Step Guide to Support the Commissioning and Managing of Evaluation (Valutazione delle politiche in materia di droga: una guida in sette fasi a sostegno della messa in servizio e della gestione delle...
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Drug Prevention: A Manual for Programme Planners and Evaluators is a publication by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
It is the second edition of the 1998 EMCDDA...
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the US and in Europe. Recently, a range of new substances that have similar effects have become available. These are known as synthetic cannabinoids (SCs). Little is known about the risks...
In che misura la posizione socioeconomica influisce sui comportamenti di consumo degli adolescenti?
Un nuovo articolo recentemente pubblicato sulla rivista accademica BMC Public Health affronta questa domanda nel contesto di sei diversi...
The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download.
Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least...
The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has recently released its European Drug Report for 2017. The document offers an overview of the drug situation across the continent. It covers drug supply and use as well...
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...
New findings published in the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science suggest that flavoured e-cigarettes appeal particularly to youth and young adults.
From the study's sample population, 99% of 12-17-year-olds and 95% of young adults...
Obiettivo: analizzare con successo l'attuazione della politica nazionale antifumo in Colombia, un paese a medio reddito.
Materiali e metodi: sono stati intervistati informatori chiave a livello nazionale e locale e sono state riviste...
In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...
The Evaluation Report on Drug Control (2014) for the Sixth Evaluation Round of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) measures the progress of actions taken by the 34 OAS (Organization of American States) member states to address the...
La revisione recentemente pubblicata da Public Health England rivela che il sistema di trattamento dell'abuso di droga del paese sta funzionando bene. Tuttavia, ci sono ancora diversi settori che richiedono miglioramenti.
Tra i...
La Banca degli strumenti di valutazione (BEI) è una banca dati online di risorse liberamente disponibili per valutare i programmi e le iniziative di prevenzione e trattamento della droga. È possibile cercare nell'archivio per tipo di...
In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?
This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at...
The European Schools Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) collects comparable data on substance use among 15- to 16-year-old students. It monitors drug usage trends within, as well as, between European countries.
The latest...
Il fumo e i suoi danni correlati costano al mondo più di 1 trilione di dollari e reclamano la vita di circa 6 milioni di persone ogni anno, secondo un nuovo rapporto dell'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS) e del National Cancer...
Nel suo primo rapporto dopo quasi 20 anni, la National Academy of Sciences (NAS), ha scoperto che l'uso della marijuana sembra essere particolarmente connesso a:
Smoking is a serious health issue worldwide. Prevalence, however, has steadily declined across Australia over the last several decades thanks to a number of successful public health campaigns. The number of smokers in the country is now...
As we welcome in the New Year it seems an ideal time to take stock and present the key points from the 2016 European Drug Report (EDR), the European Monitoring Centre for Drug and Addiction’s (EMCDDA) annual review of the European drug...
