COVID-19 messed up our daily work routine, at home and at school. This is difficult for children, teenagers and also for you. Creating new routines can help.

Create a firm but flexible daily routine

• Set up a schedule for you and your kids with time for planned activities and also free time. This can help children feel safer and behave better.
• Children or adolescents can help plan the routine of the day – how to make a school timesheet.
• They'll follow this better if they help them do it.

Teach children how to keep safe distances

• If everything is OK in your nation, take the kids for...

It's hard to feel positive when our kids and teens are driving us crazy. Generally, we end up saying "stop it!", but children are much more to do what we ask if we give them positive instructions and thousands of congratulations for what they did right.

Speak the behavior you want to see

Use positive words when telling your child what to do, such as, "Get your clothes out of here, please?!" (instead of 'Don't make a mess!')

It's all in the way you talk

Yelling at your kids will just make you and them more stressed and upset. So, to get your children's attention, call them by their names...

Adolescence is characterized by the passage from childhood to adulthood. At this stage, it is totally normal and common for children to be likely to live new experiences outside the family environment. They want to build their own identity. They want to join a group, they want to socialize.

And it's totally natural for them to leave their homes to see this new world that lies ahead of them. But it is very important that parents can understand that although physically they are well grown, they are still developing the part of the brain that is responsible for decision-making, called the...

Can't you go to work? Are the schools closed? Worried about money? It's normal to feel stressed and overwhelmed.

School closures also represent the chance to build better relationships with children and adolescents.

Time for an eye-to-eye chat: it's fun and for free. It makes children feel loved and safe and shows how important they are.

Separate a specific time for each child.

It could only be 20 minutes or even more – it's up to us. Doing at the same time each day will generate expectation in children and adolescents.

Ask your children what they would like to do.

Choosing builds self...

Dado que muchos consumidores de drogas se enfrentan a problemas de salud mental como la depresión y la ansiedad, el aislamiento del coronavirus presenta un desafío sin precedentes.

Con el avance de las medidas de aislamiento para tratar de contener el nuevo coronavirus, algunos usuarios de drogas ilegales han comenzado a abastecerse de su sustancia preferida para evitar el desabastecimiento durante el periodo en el que no pueden salir de sus casas.

Pero las consecuencias pueden ser devastadoras, advierten los expertos preocupados de que estas personas puedan adoptar hábitos más riesgosos...

By Decree No. 10,282 of March 2, 2020, in articles I and II of Art. 3, the activities and services performed by the Therapeutic Communities are considered essential and, therefore, it is important to guide coronavirus prevention and clarify how chemical dependents should be welcomed in these institutions.

Thinking about it, the National Secretariat for Drug Care and Prevention - SENAPRED, in partnership with the Ministry of Citizenship, published a guidebook directed to the work of therapeutic communities,addressing information about the virus, its symptoms, its transmission and preventive...

Dr. Joo Paulo Lotufo, paediatrician, member of the Smoking Commission of the Brazilian Medical Association, director of ISSUP Brazil and partner of Freemind, this video provides facts and advice on the relationship between coronavirus and smoking.

A study published in late February 2020 by the Chinese Medical Journal evaluated 78 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, of whom 14.1% evolved with worsening of their condition and 85.9% stabilized or improved.

With this follow-up, they achieved the following complication factors of pneumonia:

- The age of over 60 increases the risk of the case...

This webinar focuses on the issue of self-care for addiction professionals and was delivered by ICUDDR Deputy Director Cary Hopkins Eyles.

Many of us are drawn to work in the field of substance use disorders due to our history, family, and personal traits, such as compassion and empathy. While these can be great assets, they can also be detrimental to us personally.

In this webinar, Cary explains how to identify healthy and unhealthy traits, how we can care for ourselves, and what authentic self-care looks like.

Cary has worked in the field of substance use disorders for 18 years. She is...

1. ¿Qué funciona en la prevención del abuso de sustancias?
Todos estamos de acuerdo (esperemos) en que las autoridades y otras instituciones responsables deben invertir sus recursos en prácticas de prevención eficaces basadas en la evidencia, basadas en teorías científicas y en la evaluación de las necesidades, que correspondan a la edad y al nivel de riesgo de los grupos destinatarios y que se adapten y evalúen culturalmente, especialmente en relación con los resultados y el impacto en las poblaciones objetivo. Todas las intervenciones de prevención deben ser implementadas por personal...

Publicado originalmente en acceso abierto en The Lancet Global Health (8:3, PE329-E330, 2020).

Traducción de Robert Marten, Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul, Sally Casswell. También disponible en: http://bit.ly/3apiouO

Las enfermedades no transmisibles representan más del 72% de las muertes anuales en el mundo y ahora están recibiendo una mayor atención en la agenda de salud mundial. Sin embargo, se sigue descuidando uno de los principales factores de riesgo para las enfermedades no transmisibles: el alcohol. Si bien la industria del alcohol utiliza sofisticadas campañas de relaciones públicas para...

The role of genetics in prevention

Substance use disorders can occur in families. Research suggests that genetics represents about 1-2 of a person's likelihood of developing a substance use disorder.

Genes are the functional units of our DNA that drive the development and functioning of every cell in our body. Some diseases, such as sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis, are caused by a "mutation" in a single gene. But many diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and substance use disorder, involve variations in many different genes that contribute to a person's overall level of risk and...