All Resources for 'Policy, Governance & International Affairs'

Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: A qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional stakeholders in Canada

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Scientific article
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Statistics
Data

Background

Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances –...

Canada Webinar: Re-Imagining Children's Rights Through a Family-Centred Lens

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Video and audio recordings
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Populations
Family
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Every child has a right to a life free from harm within a community that supports them and their family to thrive.

But does every child get to experience these rights?

Join Starlings Community and their partners at Family Advocacy Support...

INL DDR Partners Call - Quality Assurance

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Format
Video and audio recordings
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Law Enforcement
Partner Organisation

This month on November 9th, 2022, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) DDR Partners meeting offered a discussion on quality assurance and included two presentations:

  • Building Quality Improvement for SUD Treatment...

World AIDS Day 2022 Event: Challenges and Perspectives from SUD Treatment Practice

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ISSUP Webinar
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Infectious Diseases
Mental Health
Data

In acknowledgement of World AIDS Day, ISSUP Italy would like to invite you to attend their upcoming Webinar.

First Presentation: The Post COVID-19 AIDS Challenges

The characteristics of HIV infection and how they have evolved over the...

ADDICTUS 2022, 4th National Forum on Pathological Addictions

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Women
Theories and Science
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

ADDICTUS 2022

IV° NATIONAL FORUM ON PATHOLOGICAL ADDICTIONS

Riva del Garda Congress Centre (TN) 2 - 4 December 2022

Scientific coordinators: Fabio Lugoboni, Anna Franceschini, Stefano Canali

 

FRIDAY 2.12.22

Neurodevelopmental...

Substance use and homelessness

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Men
Public Health
Mental Health

This research explored changes in the tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use of people experiencing homelessness in the UK. Particularly, the researchers examined the following questions:

  1. what are the characteristics of people with...

UNODC launched a Training of Trainers (ToT) Programme on the Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC) Advanced Courses 9-15 in Pakistan

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News
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Treatment
Behavioural Therapy Interventions
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Men
Women
Law Enforcement

5Ensuring continued learning and offering opportunities to substance use dependence treatment professionals to learn advanced and evidence-based treatment techniques and strategies is one of the important missions of UNODC. In...

Parental Substance Use: Supporting School Aged Children (BASW Practice Guide)

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Guide
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Populations
Family

Children living with parents who use substances are a group of children who are overlooked in legislation, policy and practice.

This guide draws on research that puts children’s voices front and centre.

Findings from safeguarding practice...

Two Countries and one problem: Prevention in Pediatrics

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ISSUP Webinar
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Partner Organisation

ISSUP Brasil presented a webinar with pediatricians discussing ways of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work.

Two pediatricians discuss the means of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work.

Moderators:
P...