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A webinar on opioid use disorder by Dr. Dennis McCarty is now available through the Addiction Technology Transfer Centre (ATTC) website. 

The hour long webinar took place in April 2018 and discusses treatment and prevention. The webinar...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0kvX8CLn60fN2JEWnUzN1Y2Rk5XTnZ5TW1jcnNidHpOTk44

ABSTRACT

Background: Alcohol misuse is a major social and public health issue in Australia, with an estimated cost to the community of Aus $30 billion per annum. Until recently, a major barrier in addressing this significant public...

National Prevention week led by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) will take place from 13-19th May 2018.

Each day focus will fall on a different topic - starting off with the theme of "Promotion of Mental...

This user guide focuses on how comprehensive tobacco control programs can deliver effective health communications. Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2014 recommends mass-reach health communication interventions as...

Abstract

Policy interventions such as public health mass media campaigns disseminate messages in order to improve health-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors at the population level. Only more recently have campaigns that...

KEY POINTS

• 91% of 16-24 year olds use the internet for social networking
• Social media has been described as more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol
• Rates of anxiety and depression in young people have risen 70% in the past 25...

Scotland has become the first country in the world to enforce a minimum price per unit of alcohol. As of 1 May 2018 all alcohol must cost no less than 0.5GPD or 50 pence. 

The move is the result of a long process of research and...

ريسون

اوجیتو

Analizar los componentes funcionales de la dinámica آشنا y factors asociados al intento de suicidio en pacientes asistidos en un hospital público de Argentina en el año 2015.

Métodos

Se realizó un estudio...

بنیاد آمریکایی پیشگیری از خودکشی، و مرکز منابع پیشگیری از خودکشی. (2018). پس از خودکشی: یک وکلک برای مدارس (اد دوم). والتهام، کارشناسی ارشد: مرکز توسعه آموزش و پرورش.

پس از یک خودکشی: یک ابزار برای مکاتب در تطبیق یک پاسخ هماهنگ شده به...

In 2015, the team from the Department of Addictology (First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague) in cooperation with our colleague from the Department of Community Medicine & Health Care...

Abstract

Objective: Chinese adolescents’ perceptions about tobacco control at schools are rarely researched. We explored how current antismoking strategies work in middle school environments, as well as the attitudes towards these...