All Resources for 'Media, Advocacy, and Communications original'

Educational Packages for Opioid Use Disorders

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Website
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Mental Health
Partner Organisation

The Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network has released a set of educational packages that can be used by professionals working with individuals with opioid disorders. 

Online booklets, which have been specially designed for peer...

2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium - Presentations

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Website
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Mental Health
Data
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

A number of presentations from the 2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium, which was held on Monday, 8 October 2018, have been made available. 

The theme of the event was Clinical, community and policy responses to emerging problems in drug...

Young Drivers Who Use Cannabis at Higher Risk of Collisions

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Public Health

It has been suggested that cannabis use increases risk of driving collisions through affecting braking and choice reaction time; causing impairment of lane position, disrupting head-way and dynamic tracking; distorting time perception...

Tobacco Use by Clients Receiving SUD Treatment

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Public Health
Partner Organisation

Although cigarette smoking among adults in the United States has been steadily decreasing, rates continue to remain high amongst certain vulnerable populations.

A recent study published in the international journal of Addictive Behaviours ...

SPR 27th Annual Meeting - Call for Papers

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News
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Prevention
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Statistics
Mental Health
Policy
Ethics
Data

SPR 27th ANNUAL MEETING

May 28 – May 31, 2019

Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

CALLS NOW AVAILABLE:

Papers, NIDA International Poster Session, Preconference Workshops, and "Brown Bag" SIGs

Submission Deadline for ALL...

Substance Use and the Maldives

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

There are decades’ worth of evidence from around the world to guide us; we need to follow it. Given the importance of the issue, I say let’s do all interventions that have shown promising results. But what does this mean for drug use in...

Teaching Teens about Drugs

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Prevention
Public Health
Partner Organisation

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has released a series of lesson plans and suggested activities that can be used within the classroom with teenagers. The aims of the lesson plans are to educate young people, in an engaging and fun way...

Top 5 Studies to Read about Drug Education

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Scientific article
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Prevention
School-Based
Public Health

Drug and Alcohol Findings have announced the top five studies in the field of drug education. 

The five studies describe drug prevention curriculum and techniques that have been tried and tested, with varying degrees of success, in Western...

Effectiveness Bank Matrix Cell: Crime-Reducing Drug Treatment Systems

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Policy Advocacy
Policy
Law Enforcement
Police 
Prisons / Corrections
Supply & Market Disruption
Regulatory Control of Substances
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 

Last of the 25 cells of the Drug Treatment Matrix explores research on how local treatment systems can protect the community – treatment in itself, and treatment offered or imposed by law enforcement authorities. The task is to meld...

Native American Teens at Higher Risk for Substance Abuse

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Scientific article
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Data
Prevention
Public Health

A recent study has found that Native American adolescents are at greater risk of alcohol and drug abuse than other American teens.

Survey results were collected from 1,700 Native American students at 31 schools across the United States and...