Evaluation

Evaluation of the national strategy to address the problem of drugs in Uruguay

Book

This document presents the findings of the external evaluation of the national strategy for drug (END) developed by a team from the Faculty of social sciences of the University of the Republic in the last quarter of 2014. The document is...

8th European Alcohol Policy Conference 2018

20 April 2018

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The 8th European Alcohol Policy Conference (8EAPC) will take place from 20-21st November in Edinburgh, Scotland.

8th European Alcohol Policy Conference 2018

SAMHSA Tobacco-Free Recovery Grant 2018

News

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery Grant is now open for applications. Offering up to 5 million USD the grant can be used for a range of projects...

Advantages of the ordinal alpha from Cronbach's illustrated with the who-AUDIT survey

Scientific article

1 April 2018

Overview Objectives: Explain the advantages of the use of the ordinal Alpha for situations in which the Cronbach's assumptions are not fulfilled and show the usefulness of the ordinal Alpha with the Chilean version of the AUDIT, as well as...

United Kingdom Drug Situation: Focal Point Annual Report

Book

1 March 2017

The United Kingdom Focal Point on Drugs (UK Focal Point) 2017 report is available on the UK government's digital portal. Based at Public Health England, the UK Focal Point is the national partner of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs...

United Kingdom Drug Situation: Focal Point Annual Report

Medication for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

Book

1 October 2015

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Health and Human Services US Government Department (HSS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have collaborated to create a manual on...

Medication for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder

New Resource Centre from SAMHSA

Website

4 March 2018

SAMHSA has launched the new Evidence Based Resource Center which will allow practitioners to find tools, manuals, clinical practice guidelines and science based-resources. Available directly through the SAMHSA website, the digital resource...

Evidence-Based Practices Resource Centre

D-Healthylife Interdisciplinary Co-Creation Workshop in Barcelona

26 April 2018

Barcelona

Spain

As part of the d-HealthyLife initiative EIT Health Campus is offering a full day co-creation workshop. This is a developing project that implementing "participatory processes to develop training programmes on the co-creation, motivation and behaviour change, and innovative business models for digital health products."

EU Drug Use Revealed through Wastewater Analysis

News

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the results of their largest wastewater analysis study. The EU project analysed the wastewater around 60 European cities and towns. This has allowed...

New Dataset Made Available from Study of Adolescent Brain Development

News

In February of 2018 the US National Institute of Health (NIH) released the first dataset from an "unprecedented study of adolescent brain development", the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The study has, to date...