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Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Thirteenth Session)
ISSUP Nigeria would like to invite you to attend their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Beyond Dependence: Alcohol-induced Disorders.
Learning Outcomes:
• Sensitization to the wide range...
The impact of discrimination on substance use disorders among sexual minorities
This paper aimed to review the literature regarding the impact of discrimination on substance use disorders among Sexual Minorities, with a focus on alcohol, opioids, stimulants, polydrug use, chemsex, cannabis and tobacco, as well as...
Use of e-cigarettes among young people in Great Britain, 2022
Summary of key findings
The evolving youth use of e-cigarettes in Britain is monitored using the ASH Smokefree GB survey of 11-18 year olds 2013-2022 (see Appendix 2 for methodology), in the context of changes in tobacco use and the...
Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol in Scotland
Here you can read a briefing paper put together by Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems that examines minimum unit pricing in Scotland.
The paper provides an overview of:
- Alcohol harm in Scotland
- What is MUP and why was it...
Denmark advises no alcohol consumption for under-18s
All young people aged under 18 have been advised not to drink alcohol in new guidelines issued by the Danish Health Authority.
The advice is part of new general Danish recommendations on alcohol consumption, the health authority said in a...
Kenya to include smoking cessation drugs as essential medicines
The Ministry of Health has been advised to add two non-nicotine drugs to Kenya’s Essential Medicines List, to help smokers quit tobacco and nicotine addiction.
The World Health Organization said the two drugs bring “a powerful shift in the...
New psychoactive substances (NPS) - the Irish situation.
This factsheet summarises information and statistics on new psychoactive substances gathered from recent reports on prevalence, treatment, mortality and legislation in Ireland.
Mapping prevention systems in the European Neighbourhood Policy area
Between March and May 2021, the EU4Monitoring Drugs (EU4MD) project supported the mapping of national prevention systems in European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) area countries.
This briefing describes the rationale and methodology of the...
The cardiovascular risks and benefits of quit smoking medicines
In this presentation, the speakers reported the results of a series of three population-based cohort studies relating to the use and effects of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies. The first of these studies provided evidence on how the...