Booklet 10: Education sector responses to the use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs
The latest volume in the Good Policy and Practice in Health Education Series has been developed via international consultation between the United Nations...
Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...
Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...
This study was based on a large cohort of smokers from all regions and settings in Denmark. 46 287 smokers were included in the study, and the follow-up rate was high (74%).
The study was...
These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or...
The longer teenagers delay the use of marijuana, the better it is for their developing brains. However, a new study has found that there may be little adverse effect if one starts smoking the drug after the age of 17. According to the...
Finland plans to cut consumption of tobacco products - in any form – to less than 2% among adults by 2040. As is the case with many industrialised countries, Finland’s smoking rates have decreased in recent years as a result of various...
È ampiamente accettato che gli adolescenti sono predisposti a indulgere in comportamenti a rischio, più degli adulti. I ricercatori del Max Planck Institute for Human Development ci hanno recentemente fornito nuove informazioni sulle...
Tobacco smoking is a causal risk factor of at least 16 different types of cancer. In Mexico, smoking causes 6,035 premature deaths annually of lung cancer and 5,154 from other types. Additionally, 16,408 new smoking attributable cases are...
Una "alleanza terapeutica", o in altre parole, una relazione positiva e di fiducia tra consulente e paziente, potrebbe essere la chiave per il successo del trattamento della dipendenza da alcol, secondo un nuovo studio. I pazienti che hanno...
Introducing children to alcohol by way of their parents allowing them sips or tasters of their own drinks is typically viewed as the presiding method used in European countries.
Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, a new...
I ricercatori sanitari di tutto il mondo hanno fornito nuove prove che suggeriscono che la pubblicità di alcolici è spesso aggressiva, raggiungendo i bambini ed è legata al consumo di giovani.
L'organizzazione australiana, la National...
Smoking is a serious health issue worldwide. Prevalence, however, has steadily declined across Australia over the last several decades thanks to a number of successful public health campaigns. The number of smokers in the country is now...
La ricerca ha scoperto che la personalità di una persona è un utile predittore dell'abuso di droghe e alcol. Un programma notevole che affronta la prevenzione delle sostanze concentrandosi sulle caratteristiche personali è PreVenture. PreV...
Secondo nuove scoperte pubblicate sulla rivista Tobacco Control, oltre 53 milioni di persone in 88 paesi hanno smesso di fumare tra il 2008 e il 2014 a causa delle misure di controllo del tabacco.
Statisticamente, ciò significa che durante...
Nel suo ultimo rapporto sui film senza fumo, l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS) ha consigliato ai governi che i film che presentano l'uso del tabacco dovrebbero essere classificati per il loro contenuto per adulti. Pubblicato...
A new study suggests that the way in which the human brain responds to nicotine depends on what a smoker believes about the drug’s content in a cigarette. The investigation found that smoking a cigarette that contains nicotine, but thinking...
New research suggests that certain personality traits, such as having a lack of restraint or being impulsive, increase the likelihood of developing alcohol use disorders. On the flip side, the study found that people with high resilience...
