Prevention

Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.

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Exploring arts-based interventions for youth substance use prevention: a scoping review of literature

Scientific article

6 December 2022

This scoping review explores various arts-based substance use prevention interventions for youth.

15th International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

7 August 2023

Sarawak

Malaysia

The 15th International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ICCAP2023) will take place in Kuching, Sarawak (on Borneo Island), Malaysia from the 7th to 9th August 2023.

The conference theme “Enhancing resilience in children, young people and families in a changing world” will take an integrated global and multidisciplinary perspective.

Children whose parents use drugs: Promising practices and recommendations

Book

This report focuses on children growing up in families affected by drug and alcohol dependence, as well as on the services, programmes and practices that help to protect childhood and guarantee children’s needs while, at the same time...

Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System

Book

Community engagement is often cited as a tool to improve the health of the community and its members. This guide will review evidence related to leveraging community engagement to support the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based...

Prevention Topics Page

Website

Drug prevention approaches range from those that target society as a whole (environmental and universal prevention) to interventions focusing on at-risk individuals (indicated prevention). The main challenges are in matching these different...

Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood

Book

3 March 2016

This guide, intended for parents, practitioners, and policymakers, begins with a list of 7 principles addressing the specific ways in which early interventions can have positive effects on development; these principles reflect findings on...

Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward

ISSUP Webinar

24 January 2023

ISSUP Malaysia would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar on Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward. The webinar is to inform and raise awareness on critical issues in the...

Harm Reduction 2023

16 April 2023

Melbourne

Australia

HR23 will take place in Melbourne from 16th-19th of April. The theme of the conference is 'strength in solidarity'.

HR23 presents an opportunity too good to miss for organisations and individuals looking to maintain or enhance their profile with a diverse conference audience.

Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward

24 January 2023

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

ISSUP Malaysia would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar on Mobilizing community resources in preventive measures: Issues, challenges and the way forward.

Time: 5PM Malaysia Time | 9AM UK Time | 10AM Czech Republic Time | 12PM Kenya Time

Register for the Webinar

Substance use prevention 'back to basics'- Reading list

Reading List

Earlier this month, Jeff Lee, senior consultant to ISSUP, delivered two webinars that reviewed what prevention of substance abuse entails. The webinars were intended to be a "back to basics” for anyone working in the prevention field that...