May Student Membership Update
In our second Student Membership Update we have sourced some funding and research opportunities, and events that we are sure will be of interest.
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Tobacco Cessation Interventions and Smoke-Free Policies in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
Many persons with mental or substance use disorders who smoke want to and can quit smoking.
Public versus Internal Conceptions of Addiction: An Analysis of Internal Philip Morris Documents
Abstract
Background
Tobacco addiction is a complex, multicomponent phenomenon stemming from nicotine’s pharmacology and the user’s biology, psychology, sociology, and environment. After decades of public denial, the tobacco industry now...
Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives and Harmful Drinking: A Systematic Review
Abstract
Background: There is growing awareness of the detrimental effects of alcohol industry commercial activities, and concern about possible adverse impacts of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, on public health...
Scotland Becomes the First Country to Enforce Minimum Pricing on Alcohol
Scotland has become the first country in the world to enforce a minimum price per unit of alcohol. As of 1 May 2018 all alcohol must cost no less than 0.5GPD or 50 pence.
The move is the result of a long process of research and...
Improving Quality of Life: Substance Use and Ageing
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has released a resource focusing on substance use in ageing populations.
The document covers the consequences of substance use in older adults, health conditions which might occur...
The Hardest Hit: Addressing the Crisis in Alcohol Treatment Services
This research, launched at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm on 1 May 2018, warns that the alcohol treatment sector is in crisis. These services are entering into a cycle of disinvestment, staff depletion, and reduced...
روند در استطاعت محصولات دخانیات در بنگلادش
آبستره
سابقه و هدف: قيمت محصولات تنباکو در رابطه با درآمد مصرف کنندگان دخانیات- استطاعت- به عنوان يک عامل کليدی برای رفتار مصرف تنباکو شناخته می شود. اثر افزایش قیمت به عنوان یک بازدارنده برای استفاده از دخانیات بستگی به این دارد که چقدر...
Taking a New Line on Drugs
This report, ‘Taking a New Line on Drugs’, comes at a timely moment for drugs strategy both in the UK and across the world. The special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world drug problem, which took place in New York...
الکل و سلامت روان: سیاست و عمل در انگلستان
خلاصه اجرایی
بسیاری از افرادی که از الکل سوء استفاده می کنند نیز مشکل سلامت روانی دارند و بسیاری از افراد مبتلا به مشکلات روانی نیز از الکل سوء استفاده می کنند. با این حال تعداد کمی از کمک های موثر از هر دو الکل و یا خدمات بهداشت روانی...
ارزیابی استراتیژی ملی برای حل مشکل مواد مخدر در اروگوئه
این سند یافته های ارزیابی خارجی استراتژی ملی مواد مخدر (END) را که توسط یک تیم از دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه جمهوری در سه ماهه آخر سال 2014 توسعه یافته است، ارائه می دهد. سند به پنج بخش تقسیم شده است. پس از این مقدمه، پیشینه نهادی ان دی...
‘I’m Not a Smoker…yet’: A Qualitative Study on Perceptions of Tobacco Control in Chinese High Schools
Abstract
Objective: Chinese adolescents’ perceptions about tobacco control at schools are rarely researched. We explored how current antismoking strategies work in middle school environments, as well as the attitudes towards these...
Glossary of Terms Used in Drug Policy
A glossary of drug policy terminology produced by the Drug Policy Network South East Europe is now available in English and Spanish.
The Drug Policy Network South East Europe (DPNSEE) is an initiative of NGOs from the countries of South...
International Standards on Drug Use Prevention
The second edition of the publication, International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the World Health Organization has been released. The document offers guidance for...
The Health, Poverty, and Financial Consequences of a Cigarette Price Increase among 500 Million Male Smokers in 13 Middle Income Countries
Abstract
Objective: To examine the impact of a 50% increase in market prices of cigarettes on health, poverty, and financial protection.
Design: Compartmental model study.
Setting: 13 middle income countries, totalling two billion men.
...مطالعه بین المللی کنترل الکل: روش و پیاده سازی
آبستره
مقدمه و اهداف
مطالعه بین المللی کنترل الکل‐ یک پروژه چند کشوری مشترک برای ارزیابی الگوهای مصرف الکل و تاثیر سیاست کنترل الکل است. هدف از این مقاله گزارش روش ها و اجرای IAC است.
طراحی و روش ها
آی ای سی در میان نوشابه ها ۱۶–۶۵ سال...
The Alcohol Environment Protocol: A New Tool for Alcohol Policy
Abstract
Introduction and Aim
To report data on the implementation of alcohol policies regarding availability and marketing, and drink driving, along with ratings of enforcement from two small high‐income to three high‐middle income...
The Economic Impact of Changes in Alcohol Consumption in the UK
Executive Summary
The alcohol industry (both manufacturing and sales) is important to the UK Economy as it supports thousands of jobs (IAS, 2017a; Oxford Economics, 2016). However, there are many well documented adverse effects of high...
قانون ملی درمان اختلالات مصرف مواد در کنیا
سوء مصرف مواد مخدر در کنیا و به ویژه در میان جوانان در حال افزایش است. آمار فعلی نشان می دهد که بیش از نیمی از مصرف کنندگان مواد مخدر 10-19 سال سن دارند. اکثر مطالعات انجام شده در کشور نشان می دهد که داروهایی که معمولا استفاده می شوند...
