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Publishing, Policymaking & Promotion: Expanding Your Research

Video and audio recordings

Originally held on September 6, 2022, this webinar focuses on questions from new researchers and international researchers looking to expand their work. Funding, publishing, policymaking, and advocacy are discussed.

2022 Medical Council on Alcohol Symposium on Alcohol & Health

16 September 2022

London

United Kingdom

Programme

09:00- Registration & Refreshments

09:40- Welcome

09:50- ‘Deaths from Alcohol-related Liver Disease: can we really make a difference?’, Prof Ewan Forrest

10:20 -'Minimum Unit Pricing: Qualitative study of the experiences of homeless drinkers, street drinkers and service providers', Dr Elena Dimova

Drug Cultures and Policy in Germany, Central Asia and China

Book

1 August 2022

This volume emerged from the 25th International Week at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. The contributions it contains are based on papers that examine social work in the areas of drug use and treatment, HIV/AIDS and other...

Pulling Back the Curtain on Successful Prevention Campaigns

31 August 2022

Washington DC

United States

Wednesday, August 31, 2022, from 13:00 to 14:00 (ET, Washington, DC time)

No place for cheap alcohol: the potential value of minimum pricing for protecting lives

Book

20 June 2022

Overview The WHO European Region has some of the highest levels of alcohol consumption and corresponding rates of alcohol-related harm in the world. Pricing policies and taxation are among the most effective measures that policy-makers can...

Corporate Political Activity of the Alcohol and Gambling Industry

21 September 2022

online

United Kingdom

About this event

Unhealthy commodity industries use strategies to influence policy decisions in line with their commercial interests. The gambling industry has received comparatively little attention in this space compared to the tobacco and alcohol industries.

Review of a decade of drug policy: Progress and Challenges

Book

Introduction According to the latest World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the year 2022, around 284 million people between the ages of 15 and 64 used drugs.

Addressing drug challenges in health and humanitarian crises: Settings in need of care for a comprehensive drug use prevention in Nigeria

Scientific article

27 June 2022

Paper presented at the commemoration of the 2022 International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking, State House Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria.

ISSUP Martin Agwogie Nigeria Paper Prevention

Denmark advises no alcohol consumption for under-18s

News

All young people aged under 18 have been advised not to drink alcohol in new guidelines issued by the Danish Health Authority. The advice is part of new general Danish recommendations on alcohol consumption, the health authority said in a...

Singapore expands smoking ban

News

Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE), Sentosa Development Corp. (SDC) and several statutory boards have announced that the country’s smoking ban is to be extended. Under the new legislation, smoking will be...