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A key objective of Facing Addiction’s Action Agenda is to spread the awareness and adoption of youth prevention activities in your communities, examples of which include evidence-based prevention programming highlighted in the 2016 U.S...
Heroin use in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. The objective of this paper is to estimate the annual societal cost of heroin use disorder in the United States in 2015 US dollars.
An...
Objectives: To investigate whether moderate alcohol consumption has a favourable or adverse association or no association with brain structure and function.
Design: Observational cohort study with weekly alcohol intake and...
ایا د لوړ خطر زده کونکی د معیاری درملو زده کړې نوښتونو په پرتله د روانی مداخلو څخه ډیره ګټه پورته کوی؟
ډیری څیړنې وړاندیز کوی چې په حقیقت کې یو شمیر د پام وړ مثبت اغیزې شتون لری چې د پخوانیو سره تړاو لری.
په هرصورت ، هغه څه چې خورا...
New research published in the journal European Addiction Research paints a picture of drug treatment services for cannabis-related problems between 2003 – 2014 across 22 European countries.
Notably, it suggests that, on the whole, during...
Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. Just as for practitioners, for managers the challenge is to extract therapeutic benefit out of a...
The World Health Organization has released a series of briefings on violence prevention. Of particular interest is Chapter 3: Preventing Violence by Reducing Availability and Harmful Use of Alcohol.
‘Harmful use of alcohol is a major...
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently published what the organisation describes as ‘an awareness-raising tool’ aimed at policy-makers, public health officials, local authorities and other stakeholders.
Its...
د لومړی ځل لپاره د زندان په ځای کې، تصادفی محاکمه په سختۍ سره د ژوند د درملنې د ټولنې د درملنې په برخه کې د سرپایی مشاورت سره پرتله کړه. د ستونزو د روږدو کسانو لپاره د امریکا زندان چې د دې څیړنې کوربه وو ، حتی د لوړ خطر زندانیانو ته د...
This misuse of prescription opioids is a major public health challenge. Buprenorphine-naloxone (bup-nx) is typically used to treat opioid use disorders. However, the drug’s clinical trial primarily involved heroin users. It was therefore...
There remain many unanswered questions regarding the health effects of e-cigarettes. A new study published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco suggests that there may be a link between e-cigarette use among university students and depression...
ګیلبرتو ګررا، د ملګرو ملتونو د نشه یی توکو او جرمونو پر وړاندې د مخنیوی د څانګې مشر ، په ویانا کې د یو ان او ډی سی په مرکز کې د " د مخنیوی د معیارونو د نوی کولو په اړه د تخنیکی مشورې په اړه غونډه پرانېزی.
جیف لی، د ایس ایس او پ اجرایوی...
A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology claims to have found a positive link between affluence, high academic performance and drug and alcohol use.
Such findings are important because it has previously only...
Last week Joanna Travis-Roberts, ISSUP's Deputy Executive Director, and Livia Edegger, ISSUP’s Communications and Research Manager, attended the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) in Washington, D.C. Prior to the...
نوې څېړنې چې په ژورنال کې چاپ شوې د بیولوجیو پسیکیټری د الکولیزم د درملنې لپاره ناولی لارې ته وایی. دا به په خپله د الکولو د اغېزو د بدلولو پر ځای د څښاک انګېزه کمه کړی. په حقیقت کې، څیړنه ادعا کوی چې یو نوی میکانیزم یې کشف کړی چې د...
په لسټ عامی روغتیا کی نشر شوی نوی څیړنی د الکولو اړوند د روغتیایی اغیزو او ټولنیز اقتصادی حالت تر منځ تړاو وپلټی.
په څیړنه کې راغلی دی چې هر څومره چې یو شخص کم تړاو ولری، د الکولو د زیان څخه کم وی. لیکوالانو دا د اضافی متغیرونو لکه د...
The over-prescription of opioids is a significant public health issue in the United States. For example, opioids are often prescribed for minor injuries unnecessarily. This, in turn, increases the risk of addiction.
New research...
Preloading with alcohol, or ‘pre-drinking’, before a night out is becoming more and more common. New research carried out in a night-life district in Queensland, Australia, has looked to gauge the extent of ‘pre-drinking’. The study reports...
