Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Prevention
Can a "treatment specialist" also be seen as a "prevention specialist" and vice versa?
A contribution by Jeff Lee from the ISSUP INEP Plus facilitators training course.

Prevention & Addiction Science: Journey from Recovery to Prevention - Tasking prevention practices in recovery and recovery lessons in prevention.
This paper is a primer for exploration of these synergistic realities of engaging community driven prevention and recovery models that task lived and living experience of drug use exiting recovery for primary prevention lessons and...

Substance Permissiveness: Good or Bad?
The Role of Permissiveness by Parents/Caregivers in Substance Prevention Permissiveness in substance prevention can be misleading and often carries severe consequences for both parents and caregivers. Allowing substance use under the...
Perceived impacts of North Americas first de-medicalised safer supply program
Background A non-medicalized safer supply model called a “Compassion Club” has recently been evaluated. The model involved providing rigorously tested and accurately labeled illicit substances to members at cost. Operating for 14 months in...
Call for abstracts – 16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting 2025
Abstracts submission open until 18 April 2025! We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for EUSPR 2025 opens on 17 March 2025 and will close on 18 April 2025. Outcomes will be sent before the end of our Early Bird registration...
Introduction to Evidence-Based Prevention: The INEP Training Evaluation & University Implementation
Discover the essential principles of evidence-based substance use prevention, through INEP implementation as a university course.
Date: April 8, 9AM US EST / 2PM UTC
Presenter:
Dr. Fernando Salazar,
Principal Professor at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University,
ICUDDR Board Member
Introduction to Evidence-Based Prevention: The INEP Training Evaluation & University Implementation
Discover the essential principles of evidence-based substance use prevention, through INEP implementation as a university course.
Date: April 8, 9AM US EST / 2PM UTC
Presenter:
Dr. Fernando Salazar,
Principal Professor at the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University,
ICUDDR Board Member
Join Us in Strengthening Substance Use Prevention Through Rotary
Rotary International supports various Rotary Action Groups (RAGs), including the Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention (RAG AP). However, RAGs cannot directly approach clubs and must rely on District Governors and Service Chairs, a process that has proven ineffective. As a result, many Rotarians engaged in substance use prevention may not even be aware that RAG AP exists.
