SAMHSA’s Underage Drinking Prevention Education Initiatives (UADPEI) invites you to join national experts on March 20 to learn about leveraging partnerships in planning/hosting a Communities Talk: Town Hall Meeting to Prevent Underage...
ISSUP and UNODC announce the formation of a pool of Global Trainers with the support of the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).
Adiktologie is an international journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific reports on psychoactive substance use, behavioural addictions and related issues.
Dear Pakistan U.S. Alumni Network Members, We would like to thank everyone who applied for Executive Committee. We had only 16 slots for this EC term and we received more than 26 applications. Yet, we have kept people from different programs of U.S. Department of State. Here, is the list of selected...
El pasado jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2018, de 17 h. a 19 h., en la Sala de Prensa del Ajuntament de València, c/ Amadeo de Saboya, 11, tuvo lugar una Sesión Informativa, en torno al tema “La Inclusión Educativa como factor de protección frente a conductas adictivas”, con el hashtag #Uni2somosMÁS. La...
Xchange is an online registry of evidence-based prevention programmes. In its first phase, the registry will make available manualised interventions that European evaluation studies show have beneficial outcomes relating to substance use. For programmes of US origin, the registry also provides the evidence level of the evaluation studies conducted there (Blueprint ratings).
At present, Xchangecontains 20+ manualised prevention programmes, all of which address substance use-related problems.
Xchange provides decisional support by continuously compiling information on implementation...
This research examined the relationship between neighbourhood social environmental characteristics and drinking outcomes among a sample of urban and rural adolescents. Martin, G., Inchley, J., Marshall, A., Shortt, N., & Currie, C. (2019). The neighbourhood social environment and alcohol use among...
Fitzpatrick M, Johnson AC, Tercyak KP, Hawkins KB, Villanti AC, Mays D. Adolescent Beliefs About Hookah and Hookah Tobacco Use and Implications for Preventing Use. Prev Chronic Dis 2019;16:180093. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180093.
Abstract
Introduction
Hookah tobacco use is popular among youths and there is evidence that perceived risks and normative beliefs are associated with hookah use. The aim of this study was to further examine associations between perceived risks of hookah use, normative beliefs, and lifetime hookah use among youths.
Methods
Participants were adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (n = 257, mean [standard deviation] age, 14.9 [1.6] years, 40% nonwhite, 66% female) attending well-visit checkups at an urban pediatric clinic. Participants completed a survey of measures of cigarette smoking, risk...
Over a decade ago, the Society for Prevention Research endorsed the first standards of evidence for research in preventive interventions. The growing recognition of the need to use limited resources to make sound investments in prevention led the Board of Directors to charge a new task force to set standards for research in analysis of the economic impact of preventive interventions. This article reports the findings of this group’s deliberations, proposes standards for economic analyses, and identifies opportunities for future prevention science. Through examples, policymakers’ need...
Source: Crowley, D.M., Dodge, K.A., Barnett, W.S. et al. Prev Sci (2018) 19: 366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-017-0858-1 Abstract Over a decade ago, the Society for Prevention Research endorsed the first standards of evidence for research in preventive interventions. The growing recognition of...
National Prevention Week is an annual health observance dedicated to increasing public awareness of, and action around, mental and/or substance use disorders.
SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week will take place May 12 through 18, 2019.
El pasado 13 de noviembre de 2018, tuvo lugar en el Aula Magna de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Valencia la XXVII Jornada sobre Adicciones, que este año llevaba por título "La Prevención de las Adicciones: Una Misión Épica" Diferentes profesionales aportaron su visión respecto a las...
Villalbí, J., Espelt, A., Sureda, X., Bosque-Prous, M., Teixidó-Compañó, E., Puigcorbé, S., Franco, M., & Brugal, M. (2018). The urban environment of alcohol: a study on the availability, promotion and visibility of its use in the neighborhoods of Barcelona. Adicciones, 31(1), 33-40.
Did you know that U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Intl Narcotics & Law Enforcement (INL) fights drugs worldwide through #publichealth-focused demand reduction, such as this #drugprevention effort in Pakistan, as well as through supply side work? Reducing demand by improving #drugtreatment &...
The 8th INHSU conference covers the latest advances on hepatitis C epidemiology, management and treatment of viral hepatitis among people who use drugs, with a specific focus on hepatitis C.
