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

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ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings

ISSUP Nigeria are pleased to present their next Bi-Monthly Webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. The Webinar topic will be Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviours: Targeting Adolescents in Nigeria.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Gain...

Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Data
Abstract

The opioid crisis is a major public health challenge in the United States, killing about 70,000 people in 2020 alone. Long delays and feedbacks between policy actions and their effects on drug-use behavior create dynamic...

Use Patterns, Flavors, Brands, and Ingredients of Nonnicotine e-Cigarettes Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults in the United States

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Scientific article
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Data
Abstract

Importance  Nonnicotine e-cigarettes contain chemicals, flavorants, and solvents that have known health harms and/or have not been proven safe for inhalation.

Objective  To evaluate nonnicotine e-cigarette use patterns, including...

Variations in national availability of waivered buprenorphine prescribers by racial and ethnic composition of zip codes

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Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Data

Background

Opioid overdose remains a public health crisis in diverse communities. Between 2019 and 2020, there was an almost 40% increase in drug fatalities primarily due to opioid analogues of both stimulants and opioids. Medications for...

Strategy for Preventing Opioid Use Disorder in Communities

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Book
Themes
Prevention
Policy

Key Issues

  • Substance use often begins in adolescence.
  • Any substance use in adolescence can have detrimental effects on the developing brain.
  • Effects of substance use/misuse accumulate over time increasing societal costs and public...

Using Adolescent Development to Inform Prevention Practice

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Video and audio recordings
Themes
Prevention
Treatment
Treatment Settings

Participants will review major social and biological factors of adolescent development and implications for ways to approach substance use prevention/intervention.

 

Objectives Include:

- Describe prevalence rates for adolescent...