The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox (HNT) is an international initiative that focuses on the reduction of harm from alcohol and drug use among young people.

The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox collects and provides information on evidence-based interventions targeted at drug and alcohol use and related problems in nightlife settings. 

The Healthy Nightlife Toolbox is a website designed for local, regional and national policy makers and prevention workers, to help reduce harm from alcohol and drug use in nightlife settings

The toolbox is made up of three databases:

• evaluated interventions
• literat...

Abstract

Introduction: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health concern worldwide. In France, only 10% of people with AUD (PWAUD) receive medical care. General practitioners (GP) are one of the main entry points for AUD care. The present ongoing study, entitled ASIA (Access to Care and Indifference toward Alcohol, Accès aux Soins et Indifference à l’Alcool in French), aims to improve knowledge about factors associated with access to care for AUD by exploring related GP and PWAUD practices, experiences and perceptions.

Methods and analysis: The ASIA project is an ongoing cross...

В 2016 году в Европе было зарегистрировано более 9000 смертельных случаев передозировки. Решение этих проблем, вызывающих озабоченность, остается одним из ключевых приоритетов политики общественного здравоохранения.  

Европейский центр мониторинга наркотиков и наркомании опубликовал свой последний взгляд на наркотики под названием «Предотвращение смертей от передозировки в Европе».

В анализе представлены последние факты и цифры, а также описаны конкретные риски, связанные со смертельными и несмертельными передозировками. В нем также предлагается ряд научно обоснованных вмешательств, которые...

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, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Professor Thomas Babor, conducted an internet survey focused on mapping how many university-based programmes in the addictions field are available in European countries and what their characteristics are. It is a unique comprehensive attempt to prepare an overview of such programmes in Europe, being realized under...