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Line Up Live Up Trainer Manual: Preventing Drug Use by Promoting Active Lifestyles

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Book
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Prevention

Line Up Live Up is a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Trainer Manual prepared by Peer van der Kreeft of HoGent University College Ghent’s Department for Education, Health and Social Work.

It looks to promote sport and...

Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Policy
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...

EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse

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Book
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Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family
Public Health

Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention: A Potential Role in Cancer Prevention for Young Adults

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Scientific article
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Prevention
Public Health

Excessive or risky alcohol use is a preventable cause of significant morbidity and mortality in the U.S. and worldwide. Alcohol use is a common preventable cancer risk factor among young adults; it is associated with increased risk of...

Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Populations
Men
Public Health
Policy

Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol.

This is compared with around one third of the average population.

According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...

WHO's 2017 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report

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Book
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Addiction
Prevention
Public Health

The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download.

Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least...

Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills Training Programmes

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Book
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Prevention
Populations
Family
Public Health

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills Training Programmes offers a treasure trove of information on such initiatives, answering key questions like:

  • Who is the target group?
  • Wh...

The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions

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Book
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Prevention
School-Based
Treatment
Behavioural Therapy Interventions
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Populations
Family
Women
Public Health
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.

It asks which interventions are effective for:

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Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention

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Book
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Prevention
Public Health
Ethics
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

Published by the Society for Prevention Research in 2011, Standards of Knowledge for the Science of Prevention is an important document for those working within substance use prevention.

With the aim of professionalising the field, it...