Prevention

Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.

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The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities

Scientific article

12 January 2024

In a new editorial in World Psychiatry, Prof. Helen L. Fisher discusses how public health must recognise the influence of social circumstances and experiences and calls for lived experience to be at the centre of this revolution. Fisher...

The public mental health revolution must privilege lived experience voices and create alliances with affected communities

Handbook on Youth Participation in Drug Prevention Work

Booklet

1 January 2021

The goal of the present handbook is to offer encouragement, examples, rationales and concrete advice on how to increase youth participation in substance use prevention, harnessing the insights of young people on the most important target...

Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 32nd Annual Meeting

28 May 2024

Washington

United States

Mark your calendars to attend the most important prevention science conference–the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) 32nd Annual Meeting held in person May 28 – 31, 2024. This year’s theme is “Advancing Partnerships and Collaborative Approaches in Prevention Science.”

WAVE Bursaries to attend Lisbon Addictions 2024

News

The WAVE bursary application process is open from 24/10/2023 to 31/1/2024.

UGANDA NATIONAL ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICY

Booklet

8 November 2019

The Government of Uganda (GOU) is making every possible effort to improve the health and socio-economic conditions of the people of Uganda in line with the policy of poverty eradication. The government recognizes the role that alcohol plays...

Civil society submission and appearance to the Health and Trade Committees of the Parliament of Uganda.

Community update

22 December 2023

Since inception in 2009, Uganda Alcohol Policy Alliance (UAPA) has actively collaborated with various government and stakeholders, including Parliamentarians, the Ministry of Health, Uganda Cancer Institute, the Ministry of Education and...

Mr.Kasirye Rogers Making a submission during the meeting

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)

ISSUP Webinar

25 January 2024

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session).

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (20th Session)

25 January 2024

Lagos

Nigeria

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to the 20th session of its next bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic of 'Brief Intervention for : ASSIST Model.'

5th Annual NIH HEAL Initiative Scientific Meeting

7 February 2024

Hybrid - Virtual and Bethesda, Maryland

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 to Thursday, February 8, 2024

Hybrid - Virtual and Bethesda, Maryland

Meeting Information & Registration

European Drugs Summer School 2024

24 June 2024

Lisbon

Portugal

Our two week in-person Summer School (24th of June to 05th of July 2024) prepares professionals and students to meet the complex policy challenges that face Europe and the World in the field of drugs.