youth

Improving Services and Systems for Transition-Age Youth

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Sudbury
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Canada

The transition to adulthood is a critical developmental stage. Youth experiencing mental health and substance use concerns at this time may also face challenges related to housing, justice involvement, education, and employment. And individuals from vulnerable populations experience these challenges more acutely.

Opioid Abuse Linked to Heroin Use

Scientific article
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New research published in the journal Addictive Behaviors has found the likelihood of 18- to 34-year-old nonmedical prescription opioid users having a prescription opioid use disorder has increased between 2002 – 2014. More specifically...

Youth Who Misuse Drugs Are More Likely to Commit Suicide

Scientific article
Suicide ranks among the top five causes of death among 15- to 19-year-olds. Research has shown that youth who misuse drugs are more likely to commit suicide than their peers who do not abuse substances. An estimated 27-50 percent of...

Survey Sheds Light upon Students' Drug Use in the Caribbean

Book
The Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID) has published a comparative analysis of drug use among secondary school students in the Caribbean. The report relies on data that was collected through the use of standardised surveys among...
A Report on Students’ Drug Use in 13 Caribbean Countries

Online Learning for Prevention Standards

News
The module aims to help prevention teams, mental health professionals, school administrators, law enforcement personnel and others to plan, select, implement and evaluate prevention initiatives in their communities and schools, and at home.