childhood

Continental Training of Trainers (ToT) on the CHILD Curriculum and In-Person Training in Egypt

Training

18 March 2024

Children's drug use in Africa is a growing concern that requires urgent attention and comprehensive strategies. Understanding the complex factors influencing children's drug use and implementing effective prevention and intervention...

The impact of childhood trauma and mental disorders among people with opioid dependence

Video and audio recordings

Tom Santo Jr presented at the NDARC Webinar Series on Thursday, 16 February 2023. How do childhood trauma and mental disorders affect health, treatment and social outcomes among people with opioid dependence? Research has found that people...

The impact of childhood trauma and mental disorders among people with opioid dependence

16 February 2023

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Childhood Traumatic Grief: Youth Information Sheet

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

Most of you who experience the death of someone important adjust and recover over time. However, some of you may have more trouble adjusting and may develop Childhood Traumatic Grief. This can happen if the death was sudden, such as from a...

The relationship between early childhood trauma and the rewarding effects of morphine

Scientific article

Research from the University of Exeter has highlighted how childhood trauma can make individuals more sensitive to the pleasurable and motivational effects of opioids and less sensitive to the negative consequence of the drugs. The research...

Echo Online Training for Child Intervention for Living Drug-Free (CHILD) Curriculum

News

The Drug Advisory Programme (DAP) of the Colombo Plan in collaboration with the National Narcotics Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BNN) has successfully conducted the first online echo training for the CHILD curriculum on Course 1...

Understanding Resilience

Scientific article

Although it is a term that is frequently used, understanding what it means to be resilient or develop resilience is not always straight forward. In an article published in the Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, the researchers interpret...

Early Childhood Mental Health

Website

As people develop through childhood, adolescents and into adulthood there are continuous opportunities to lay the foundations of sound mental health. Disruptions during this trajectory can have a lasting impact on the way a person develops...

Childhood Matters: Alcohol and Drug Problems from a Child Rights Perspective

Book

Millions of children globally suffer as a consequence of the use of intoxicating substances like alcohol and illicit drugs. This is an important, but too often neglected, child rights issue. The new FORUT publication “Childhood matters”...

Emotional Abuse during Childhood Linked to Future Opioid Use

Scientific article

20 March 2017

Recently published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, a new study claims the existence of a link between childhood abuse and opioid use later in life. According to the investigation, emotional abuse, specifically, more so than sexual or...