Substances

2024 NIDA International Forum: Call for Research Poster Abstracts and Travel Award Requests

News

8 November 2023

Call for Research Poster Abstract Submissions and Travel Award Requests Submission Deadline: January 14, 2024 Present your international drug use and addiction research during the 2024 NIDA International Forum, which will be held June 14–17...

VNGOC Asia-Pacific Working Group

21 October 2023

Online

The Ad-Hoc Asia-Pacific Working Group of the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs is pleased to invite you to participate in the Asia-Pacific regional civil society

Substance Use Monitoring and Surveillance: Challenges faced by LMICs

Opinion piece, commentary

24 January 2025

Substance use surveillance has emerged as a crucial public health strategy across Africa, particularly in light of the alarming rise in substance use among adolescents (1). This trend poses significant health risks that require a...

Rapid Adaptation to Prevent Drug Use (RAPD): protocol of a pilot randomized trial to enhance the impact of an evidence-based intervention for youth

Scientific article

21 January 2025

Background Drug use trends among youth change rapidly, making it difficult for experts to respond quickly. Delays in addressing these issues can lead to preventable health problems and deaths. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for...

Rapid Adaptation to Prevent Drug Use (RAPD): protocol of a pilot randomized trial to enhance the impact of an evidence-based intervention for youth.

Bigger, stronger and cheaper: growth in e-cigarette market driven by disposable devices with more e-liquid, higher nicotine concentration and declining prices

Scientific article

Abstract Objective: This study explores trends in the disposable e-cigarette market in the USA, specifically focusing on changes in e-cigarette size, nicotine strength, and real sales-weighted average prices, both per e-cigarette unit and...

Figure 1 Panel A: average millilitre volume capacity, NielsenIQ United States, January 2017–September 2022*. *Each time period represents a 4-week interval.

Release of Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats Report

Report

16 January 2025

The latest report from the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats highlights the significant progress made since its launch in July 2023.

Nonmedical Benzodiazepines in Canada

Report

3 January 2025

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU), co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), publishes this newsletter regularly to inform people living in Canada about emerging substance use...

ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (26th Session): The Role of Family in Substance Use Prevention

30 January 2025

Online

ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to the 26th session of its bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic of 'The Role of Family in Substance Use Prevention'.

NAADAC 2025 Annual Conference

11 October 2025

Seattle

United States

Save the date for the biggest

Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting 2025

12 March 2025

New Orleans

United States

The SRNT 2025 Annual Meeting will be held at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel on March 12 - 15, 2025. The SRNT 2025 Annual Meeting will be a live meeting, with limited accommodations for those unable to travel to the meeting. We encourage you to submit your research to present during the meeting in March of 2025.