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‘Community coalitions’ is a preventative strategy that coordinates activities and resources to reduce adolescent substance use and delinquent behaviour, mobilising communities in the promotion of health and prevention initiatives.

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Findings recently revealed in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and the Journal of Neuroscience suggest  the cerebellum is co-responsible for the alterations in the brain that are linked with excessive substance abuse.

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The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued a new evidence-based guideline for combatting tobacco use by children and young adults aged 5 – 18, suggesting that physicians ought to have a more active role in the prevention...

Brožura 10: Reakce vzdělávacího sektoru na užívání alkoholu, tabáku a drog

Nejnovější svazek v řadě Good Policy and Practice in Health Education Series byl vyvinut prostřednictvím mezinárodních konzultací mezi Organizací OSN pro výchovu...

Public Health Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...

Smoking rates in people with alcohol and other drug dependencies are two to four times those of the general population. Concurrent treatment of tobacco dependence has been limited due to concern that these interventions are not successful...

In psychosocial therapies, the enactment of the client-worker relationship is the treatment. Structured around Carl Rogers’ classic formulation of the “necessary and sufficient conditions” for therapeutic progress, the cell in the Alcohol...

Heroin and synthetic opioids are propelling an upsurge of late in cocaine-related overdose deaths. This is according to a national survey carried out by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) amongst other drug...

Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...

SPYM zahájila vězeňský intervenční program mezi mládeží zneužívající drogy, která je vězněm centrální věznice Tihar v Novém Dillí. Byli identifikováni peer pedagogové a Dr. Rajesh Kumar, výkonný ředitel SPYM spolu s dalšími vězeňskými...

12-step fellowships offer a way to reconcile shrunken resources with the desire to get more patients safely out of treatment. Accounting for the self-selection bias which has obscured AA’s impacts, this synthesis of US trials finds that...

Abstract

Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...

Strengths and Limitations of this Study

• This study was based on a large cohort of smokers from all regions and settings in Denmark. 46 287 smokers were included in the study, and the follow-up rate was high (74%).

• The study...

Summary and Findings

Most people do not use illicit drugs and among those who try them, only a fraction will develop patterns of dependence. Still, drug use constitutes a serious health problem for many people in the Americas. Early age...