All Resources for 'Public Health'

Alcohol Narrows Physical Distance between Strangers

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health
Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Pandemic management is likely to represent a global reality for years to come, but the roadmap for how to approach pandemic restrictions is as yet unclear. Of the restrictions enacted during COVID-19, among the more controversial...

The long‐term effectiveness of universal, selective and combined prevention for alcohol use during adolescence: 36‐month outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Prevention
School-Based

Open Access article on a four arm cluster randomized trial of school-base alcohol prevention strategies demonstrated that both universal and selective methods improved outcomes compared to control.

World Health Organisation Tobacco Health Topic

Format
Website
Themes
Addiction
Public Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) have a health topic page dedicated to tobacco use.

The page includes:

  • up to date data on smoking, tobacco control country profiles
  • factsheet, infographics and maps
  • the latest news, events and...

Tobacco Reading List

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Reading List
Themes
Addiction
Public Health

World No Tobacco Day takes place each year at the end of May. To link with the worldwide campaign, ISSUP is hosting a series of online events throughout May that investigate the topic of tobacco use. This reading list highlights additional...

Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Sixth Session)

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Format
ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Prevention
Media-Based
School-Based
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Policy Advocacy
Policy
Law Enforcement
Police 
Supply & Market Disruption
Regulatory Control of Substances
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present the next Webinar in their Bi-Monthly Knowledge Update Series. This Webinar focuses on 'The Role of Law Enforcement in Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention'.

The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM) in Scotland

Format
News
Themes
Prevention
Public Health

The Youth in Iceland Model (YiIM, also known as ‘Planet Youth’) is a community-based approach aiming to prevent young people’s substance use through reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors. 

A new team, based in Dundee...

Contribution of Sport and Sport-based Interventions to Substance Use Prevention

Format
Video and audio recordings
Themes
Prevention
Partner Organisation

Building on the UNODC Global Initiative on Youth Crime Prevention through Sport and its Line Up Live Up programme, the UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, and relevant research on the contribution of sport to healthy...

The rapidly changing composition of the global street drug supply and Its effects on high-risk groups for COVID-19

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Public Health
The majority of street drugs, in some cases more than ninety-five percent, now have multiple toxic adulterants. This research review brings to the attention of public health officials, addiction medicine specialists, treatment officials, therapists, and the general public the alarming increase of dangerous toxic adulterants being added to street drugs and their potentially lethal synergistic effects.