All Resources for 'Policy, Governance & International Affairs'

CICAD Hemispheric Guidelines on School-Based Prevention

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Book
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Prevention
School-Based
Populations
Family
Partner Organisation

As developed by CICAD's Expert Group on Demand Reduction and approved by the Commission in 2004, these guidelines speak to strategies to conduct research, create educational materials, train teachers, and carry out and evaluate prevention...

Specification of Change Mechanisms in Pregnant Smokers for Malleable Target Identification

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Populations
Women

Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) continues to be a leading modifiable risk factor for perinatal complications and a range of neurodevelopmental and cardio-metabolic outcomes across the lifespan. Despite 40 years of intervention...

Chemsex: An Emergent Phenomenon

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Scientific article
Themes
Psychoactive Substances
Populations
Men

Chemsex is the term given to the intentional use of psychoactive drugs in order to maintain sexual relations between men who have sex with men (MSM), usually for long periods of time and with multiple partners. This phenomenon has also been...

Syndemic Risk Classes and Substance Use Problems among Adults in High-Risk Urban Areas

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health
Theories and Science

Substance use problems tend to co-occur with risk factors that are especially prevalent in urban communities with high rates of poverty. The present study draws on Syndemics Theory to understand profiles of risk and resilience and their...

Methamphetamine Increases Risk of Stroke, Study Finds

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Populations
Men
Women
Public Health

The use of methamphetamine, or what is commonly known as ‘speed’, ‘ice’, or ‘meth’, correlates with an increased risk of stroke among young people, according to new research published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

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Policy in Action: A Tool for Measuring Alcohol Policy Implementation

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Book
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Policy

ABSTRACT

Europe has the highest alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable disease burden in the world. In 2011, all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region endorsed the European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012...

New National Alcohol Policy launched by Minster of Health

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News
Themes
Populations
Family
Policy

The new National Alcohol Policy for Malawi has been in the making since 2008, a process originally initiated by a group of NGOs. On the 18th of August almost ten years later the Minister of Health, Atupele Muluzi, could launch the final...

Awareness of Standardised Tobacco Packaging among Adults and Young People during the Final Phase of Policy Implementation in Great Britain

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Scientific article
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Policy

Abstract

Background: In May 2016, along with the latest European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), standardised packaging legislation was implemented in the UK. During the following 12-month transition period, both new and old types of...

Pubs Quizzed: What Publicans Think about Policy, Public Health and the Changing Trade

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Book
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Policy

Key Points

- There is significant common ground between public health bodies and publicans, and scope to develop policies approved of by both groups

- Many publicans are deeply concerned about harmful alcohol consumption

- Both see...

Energy Drinks, Drug Use and the Developing Brain

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Policy
Partner Organisation

New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has found that university students who regularly consume energy drinks are more likely to develop alcohol use disorders later in life. The same students are also at greater...