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RCGP & AP Managing addictions in primary care 2025

16 January 2025

Manchester

United Kingdom

The 29th Managing addictions in primary care conference will take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 January in Manchester.

Syndemic Solutions Summit 2025

25 March 2025

Missouri

United States

Save-the-date: Tuesday, March 25, and Wednesday March 26, 2025, at the Marriott Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. We’re expanding our summit program to two full days as we continue to advance the health needs of all communities using a syndemic framework.

Submit Your Plenary Session Proposal for the 2025 NIDA International Forum

Community update

Submit Your Plenary Session Proposal for the 2025 NIDA International Forum in New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline: October 31, 2024 Save the date! The 2025 NIDA International Forum will take place as an in-person meeting in New Orleans...

EUDA webinar: Preventing substance-related crime in the community — how can we provide safer and healthier environments?

13 September 2024

Online

Objective: To discuss prevention strategies aimed at reducing violence and crime related to substance use in Europe.

Day 3, 11:00 - 12.30, ISSUP, Investing in Public Health

ISSUP Event

28 June 2024

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024, on the 28th of June, 2024. Moderator: Joanna Travis-Roberts - ISSUP Chief Executive Presentations: Hamad AlGhaferi - Public Health of Addiction Michal Miovsky - Example of fully functioning digital national...

Call for applications: Health Research at the Nexus of Humanitarian Crises and Climate Change

News

The Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and partner organizations will host a Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R) inclusive of public webinars and an in-person meeting in May 2025...

World Health Organization Risk Drinking Levels Among Mandated College Students: Associations With Alcohol Use, Mental Health, and Academic Performance

Scientific article

24 July 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) uses risk drinking levels (low, moderate, high, and very high risk) as a measure for reducing alcohol consumption in clinical trials. However, these levels have not been specifically evaluated for...

Why Do Only Some Cohort Studies Find Health Benefits From Low-Volume Alcohol Use? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Study Characteristics That May Bias Mortality Risk Estimates

Scientific article

22 January 2024

This study looks at how certain factors in research can skew the results when estimating the health effects of drinking small amounts of alcohol. These biases can affect public health advice and shape how people view alcohol’s potential...

Overdose Resource Exchange (ORE)

Website

Overdose Resource Exchange (ORE) is a central collection of CDC-reviewed communication materials and educational resources about opioid misuse, addiction, treatment, and overdose prevention for state, territorial, and local health...

Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA) Practice Guide 2023

Guide

30 September 2023

This guide was drawn from HEALing Communities Study (HCS) learnings to-date and expert insights to provide guidance regarding implementation of ORCCA menu strategies.