All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

The Free Peer Recovery Support Webinar Series Starts on Friday, March 27

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News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Public Health

Peer recovery support services are increasingly becoming an important part of the behavioral healthcare workforce. They not only help people with behavioral health conditions connect to, engage in, and be active participants in treatment...

Increased Alcohol Advertisement Regulation in Kenya

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News
Themes
Policy
Prevention
Public Health

One of the key recommendations to reduce alcohol related harm is for countries to introduce policies that regulate how companies advertise their alcohol products. 

This measure, along with adjustments in alcohol taxation, is a measure that...

Associations of Psychosocial Factors with Multiple Health Behaviors: A Population-Based Study of Middle-Aged Men and Women

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Men
Women

Abstract

 

Background: The health behaviors smoking, risky alcohol consumption, insufficient physical activity, and poor diet constitute the main contributors to non-communicable diseases. Clustering of risk behaviors is common and...

Association of Alcohol Screening Scores With Adverse Mental Health Conditions and Substance Use Among US Adults

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Men

Abstract

Importance: Alcohol screening may be associated with health outcomes that cluster with alcohol use (ie, alcohol-clustering conditions), including depression, anxiety, and use of tobacco, marijuana, and illicit drugs.

Objective: T...

WEBINAR: Cary Hopkins Eyles on Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals

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Format
ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
Partner Organisation

This webinar focuses on the issue of self-care for addiction professionals and was delivered by ICUDDR Deputy Director Cary Hopkins Eyles.

Many of us are drawn to work in the field of substance use disorders due to our history, family, and...

Trajectories of psychological distress during recovery from polysubstance use disorder

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Recovery Support
Addiction
Theories and Science

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Introduction: Polysubstance use is a prevalent substance use pattern with adverse effects on psychological distress and diminished treatment outcomes. Although polysubstance use often dominates clinical practice, the trajectories...

Alcohol-free Childhood: Investigation by the Children’s Parliament

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News
Themes
Prevention
Public Health

Alcohol has a constant presence in everyday lives. 

It is important that all practitioners, professionals, and policymakers are aware of this presence and the impact it has on different members of society.

One way to gather this...