Exploring arts-based interventions for youth substance use prevention: a scoping review of literature
This scoping review explores various arts-based substance use prevention interventions for youth.
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How wastewater monitoring can boost preparedness for new health threats
Objective: to explore wastewater analysis as a methodology contributing to EU preparedness and response
Background: COVID-19 has raised the attention of Europe, and globally, on the importance of readiness towards potential emergencies...
Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations
This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...
Experts’ views on how to design a tobacco control fund in the UK
Abstract
Objective To explore expert views on the potential value, and approaches to establishing and administering a tobacco control fund in the UK.
Design Semistructured interviews and follow-up discussion groups.
Subjects Twenty...
EU Early Warning System on NPS- Poster
Summary
This poster, presented during the IX International Conference on NPS(24 to 26 Oct 2022, Panama), showcases some of the work of the EU Early Warning System on new psychoactive substances. Operated by the EMCDDA, in close...
Recreational use of nitrous oxide — a growing concern for Europe
Summary
The purpose of this report is to examine the current situation, risks and responses to the recreational use of nitrous oxide in Europe. To support this, the report also provides a state-of-the-art review of the chemistry...
Parent Guide- The Improving Treatment Together (ITT) Project
This handbook is a collection of shared experiences and stories to help other parents and caregivers find refuge, support and courage to reach out for help.
Whether your young person is experimenting with substances or has developed a...
Understanding injecting drug use in Afghanistan: A scoping review
Background
Several reports have described a growing prevalence of illicit drug use in Afghanistan, with recognition of a recent shift from traditional modes of consumption involving inhalation and oral ingestion to injecting drug use.
...Correlates of treatment engagement and client outcomes: results of a randomised controlled trial of nabiximols for the treatment of cannabis use disorder
Introduction and aims
There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary...
Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: A qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional stakeholders in Canada
Background
Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances –...
Disruptions to U.S. local public health’s role in population-based substance use prevention and response during COVID-19
Background
The COVID-19 emergency has tested the public health, medical, and public safety infrastructure of the United States (U.S.) in unprecedented ways. As the focal point for public health in their communities, local health...
Guidelines and Recommendations for School-based Prevention
Over the past 25 years, there has been a significant focus on the need to address young people’s health and behaviour as a major and necessary part of the school curriculum.
The objectives for prevention have to include effective...
People, Planet, or Profit: alcohol’s impact on a sustainable future
Alcohol is a discretionary, non-essential product that causes over 200 health conditions.1 The harm that alcohol causes to health, society and the economy is already well-known. However, the damage caused to the environment, sustainable...
Integrated brief interventions for noncommunicable disease risk factors in primary care: the manual
Abstract
Brief interventions are recognized by WHO as an effective measure to help people quit tobacco, reduce or stop alcohol use and increase physical activity. They can also help to achieve and maintain healthy eating behaviours and...
Strategies to cut down drinking, alcohol consumption, and usual drinking frequency
Background
Relatively little is known about how risky drinkers attempt to moderate their drinking in the absence of specialist support. The broader literature has identified multiple potential strategies that people use to cope with...
Mortality and life-years lost following subsequent physical comorbidity in people with pre-existing substance use disorders: a national registry-based retrospective cohort study of hospitalised individuals in Czechia
Summary
Background
Substance use disorders constitute a major global public health problem, attributable largely to their subsequent comorbidity with other health conditions. This study aimed to investigate the risk of all-cause death...
INL DDR Partners Call - Quality Assurance
This month on November 9th, 2022, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) DDR Partners meeting offered a discussion on quality assurance and included two presentations:
- Building Quality Improvement for SUD Treatment...
Substance use and homelessness
This research explored changes in the tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use of people experiencing homelessness in the UK. Particularly, the researchers examined the following questions:
- what are the characteristics of people with...
Cannabis y Adolescencia
ISSUP Chile presentó un seminario web sobre los resultados de la investigación actual sobre el impacto del consumo de cannabis en el cerebro adolescente en desarrollo.
Centro comunitario de salud mental éxitos en la prevención y tratamiento de personas que consumen sustancias psicoactivas
ISSUP Perú te invita a participar de un webinar sobre servicios comunitarios de prevención y control de adicciones.
El webinar se llevará a cabo el jueves 20 de octubre de 2022 a las 11:00 (hora Perú)
Este webinar analiza la actividad...