All Resources for 'Policy, Governance & International Affairs'

Mental Health of Youth and Substance Use: Self-harm and Suicide in Young

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ISSUP Webinar
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Populations
Family
Mental Health
ISSUP Ukraine are pleased to present the First Webinar in their Three-Part Series on 'Mental Health of Youth and Substance'. The First Webinar will centre specifically on Self-Harm and Suicide in Young.

Review of Alternatives to Incarceration Efforts Worldwide

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Policy
Law
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
Partner Organisation
Research from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in partnership with the Department of State’s Diplomacy Lab Project on the readiness of countries to expand alternatives to incarceration (ATIs) for persons with substance use disorders (SUDs).

Online Training on UTC 4A

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News
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Populations
Family

Psychoeducation for Clients & Families.

Organized by Supreme Training & Consultancy Malaysia.

For registration, please email pm [dot] stcm [at] gmail [dot] com 

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics

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Scientific article
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Policy

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy 'Silo' Pragmatics -  This paper (synoptic version, peer reviewed and published in Journal of Global Drug Policy & Practice) is a review of and research into the social...

President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week

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News
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Public Health

President Biden issued the first ever Presidential Proclamation recognizing August 29, 2021 – September 4, 2021 as Overdose Awareness Week – a time to honor the lives lost to the overdose epidemic and recommit to both preventing overdoses...

Quality and the Workforce

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ISSUP Webinar
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
ISSUP Quality in Treatment Network and ISSUP UK are pleased to present this Webinar on Quality and the Workforce. This Webinar looks into the role of the workforce in ensuring quality drug use disorder treatment services.

Attitudes towards consumption, sensation seeking and alcohol consumption. Model of partial mediation in Ecuadorian adolescents

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Scientific article
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Populations
Men

Objective: To determine the mediated effect of sensation-seeking on the relationship between attitudes to alcohol consumption and consumption in a sample of adolescents from Ecuador. Method: Descriptive predictive and mediation study with...

Monitoring and evaluation for community based prevention systems

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News
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Prevention
Populations
Family

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are essential in strengthening Community-Based Prevention Implementation Systems, through this process organizations collect and analyze data, and determine if the Substance use prevention- intervention (EBIs...

Reprint of: Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Biotechnological treatment, including addiction treatment, is the way of the future. Researchers and pharmaceutical companies praise depot injections, agonist/antagonist implants, deep brain stimulation, and hapten conjugate vaccines as...

Substance Use in Women Deprived of Liberty: A General Approach and Recent Evidence

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ISSUP Webinar
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Addiction
Populations
Women
Mental Health

ISSUP Argentina held a webinar presenting a general initial framework and evidence on the characterization and approach of problematic substance use in the population of women deprived of liberty.

The webinar took place on Tuesday, October...