The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
Public Health
Alcohol Awareness Week 2021
Alcohol Awareness Week is a week of awareness-raising, campaigning for change, and more. This year's Alcohol Awareness Week takes place from 15-21 November 2021 on the theme of Alcohol and relationships. Alcohol Awareness Week is...
UNODC launches new webpage to expand access to essential HIV health and social services
The UNODC Regional Programme Office for Eastern Europe (Kyiv, Ukraine), in cooperation with the Charitable Fund “Humanitarian Action” (Saint Petersburg, Russia), launches a new website on New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) (https://nps-info...
The impact of COVID-19 on drug use and harm reduction programming in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: a regional consultation of stakeholders and people who use drugs
COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was classified a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with early reports of the disease occurring in the Middle East and North African (MENA) area. On January 2021, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional...
Alcohol consumption and harms during COVID-19 in four continents
ICARA-led ‘COVID-19 & Substance Use’ webinar. Myths, Lockdowns, Curfews & Bans: Alcohol consumption & harms during COVID-19 in 4 continents.
We warmly invite you to join us online on Tuesday 17 August, 11.00-12.30 BST for the webinar Myths, Lockdowns, Curfews & Bans: Alcohol consumption & harms during COVID-19 in four continents.
Not your neurotypical client: Autism, alcohol, and other substances
Understanding needs and improving support for autistic people around alcohol and other substance use issues
Changes in alcohol consumption patterns based on gender during COVID-19 confinement in Spain
Abstract The goal of this study was to analyze the prevalence and pattern of alcohol consumption (frequency of consumption, average daily consumption, and risky consumption) before and during confinement due to the coronavirus disease...
Increase access to hepatitis C (HCV) testing and care in drug services- a toolkit
People who inject drugs (PWID) are a key population for the elimination of hepatitis C in Europe, and increasing their access to HCV testing and care is a goal in European and national hepatitis C policies. Despite this, HCV testing remains...
23rd International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Conference
The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Conferencebrings together delegates from the areas of public health and safety, traffic, and transport psychology, public health, law, medicine, economics, law enforcement, public policy, education, pharmacology, toxicology, forensic science, human factors, and alcohol intervention and
Addressing long overdue social and structural determinants of the opioid overdose crisis: Drug and Alcohol Dependence Special Issue
This special issue addresses a rapidly growing area of research with a pressing public health need, the social structure of opioid use. Specifically, this issue compiles original articles that apply theoretical and empirical frameworks to...
