Alcohol Use and Breast Cancer Risk
Despite the clear associations between alcohol consumption and breast cancer, public awareness of this issue is low.
Prevention
UNODC takes an active role in the 2019 Society for Prevention Research Annual Conference
UNODC participated at the Society for Prevention Research Annual Conference held in San Francisco, 28-30 May 2019. UNODC presented in total 3 posters, one on the development of fidelity checklists, in particular, to measure fidelity of the...
Unplugged Newsletter
The European Drug Addiction Prevention trial team ( EU-Dap) have put together their first 'Unplugged' newsletter! The aim of the EU-Dap project is to contribute to the evidence concerning the effectiveness of drug prevention programs. Part...
EUSPR Awards
The EUSPR Awards are now open! Nominations can be made for: The Sloboda Medal for sustained contribution to the development of Prevention Science in Europe and internationally The Leading European Prevention Science Practitioner Honour-...
UNODC Training on the Nature, Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders Organized jointly with SENDA in Chile
30 policy makers attended the training event in Chile which was organized from 28-30 May 2019 in coordination with the National Service for the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Drug and Alcohol Consumption (SENDA) and with the support of...
We are Family - Families and their Role in Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use, Crime and Violence, Including the Prevention of Recruitment into Violent Extremist Groups
The 28th Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is being held from 20 - 24 May 2019. On Monday, 20 May 2019 UNODC's Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Section organized a side event on We are Family: Families and...
Challanges and Perspectives in the Field of Addiction Prevention
The first professional conference on contemporary approaches and models of work on addiction prevention with children and youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges and perspectives in the field of addiction prevention will be held on 26th and 27th of June 2019 in Sarajevo.
Enhanced Knowledge of Serbian Policymakers on the Nature, Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
More than twenty-five (25) Serbian high-level decision makers from Ministries of Health, Education, Social Affairs and Counternarcotics are participating in the three-day workshop on creating humane, effective and evidence-based drug use...
Effectiveness Bank Analysis: ‘No Effect’ from Targeting Child Drinking via the Parents
Findings of this comprehensive review seem to almost entirely deflate what in the mid-2000s was a bubble of enthusiasm for parental programmes as a way to prevent or reduce drinking among teenagers - but despite this overall verdict, some...
Priorities for UNODC Work on Drug Prevention and Treatment in Southeastern Europe
The programme of work of UNODC in any region of the world is developed in a consultative process together with the concerned Member States. That is why UNODC organised a Regional Consultative Meeting on the Development of the Sub-Programme...
