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We are Family - Families and their Role in Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use, Crime and Violence, Including the Prevention of Recruitment into Violent Extremist Groups

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The 28th Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is being held from 20 - 24 May 2019. On Monday, 20 May 2019 UNODC's Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation Section organized a side event on We are Family: Families and...

Ms. Miwa Kato, Director of Division for Operations providing closing remarks at the side event (Photo credits:© UNODC Twitter)

Enhanced Knowledge of Serbian Policymakers on the Nature, Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders

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More than twenty-five (25) Serbian high-level decision makers from Ministries of Health, Education, Social Affairs and Counternarcotics are participating in the three-day workshop on creating humane, effective and evidence-based drug use...

Milan Pekić, Director of the Serbian Office Against Drugs, Elizabeth Sáenz MD, UNODC Project Coordinator and Milos Stojanovic, Regional Project Manager, UNODC Serbia

Priorities for UNODC Work on Drug Prevention and Treatment in Southeastern Europe

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The programme of work of UNODC in any region of the world is developed in a consultative process together with the concerned Member States. That is why UNODC organised a Regional Consultative Meeting on the Development of the Sub-Programme...

Experts and policy makers from Southeastern European countries together with UNODC staff

Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Therapy ‘Toolbox’ Helps Rescue Poorly Recovering Patients at London Maintenance Clinic

Scientific article

9 May 2019

Instead of a set programme, a clinic in London tried offering patients prescribed methadone or buprenorphine but still using heroin or cocaine a selection from a suite of well-supported psychological interventions tailored to the patient...

Podcast: Recovery-focused Care Planning

Website

25 May 2016

The Collaborate Care Planning Project (COCAPP) studies mental health risk, care planning and therapeutic relationships. This podcast interview with Alan Simpson and Sarah Carr explores the importance of assessing and managing risk, how to...

Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions

Book

29 November 2018

This fact sheet describes the best practices that community-based behavioural health, and probation and parole agencies can implement to ensure that reentry for people who have opioid addictions is safe and successful.

Effectiveness Bank Additions: Therapy Relationships that Work 4: Managing Perceptions of the Treatment

Scientific article

23 April 2019

Clients’ perceptions of and reactions to treatment are the focus of this final of four bulletins recapping 16 reviews for the American Psychological Association. Emerging from psychotherapy research worldwide are practical and effective...

Fifth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference

4 September 2019

Prato

Fifth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference will be held from the 4th to the 6th September 2019 at the Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy, near Florence.

The theme of the event is Rethinking ‘Change’: New Theories, New Topics, New Questions, New Methods.

Effectiveness Bank Additions: Therapy Relationships that Work 3: Managing the Relationship

Scientific article

15 April 2019

How therapists can build and manage the recovery-promoting relationship with the client is the focus of this third bulletin recapping 16 reviews for the American Psychological Association, each featuring expert advice based on amalgamations...

Western Canada Addiction Forum

3 May 2019

Kelowna

Canada

The Western Canada Addiction Forum serves as an educational opportunity for those working in, or planning to work in, the addictions field.

The forum is open to physicians and allied health professionals, including pharmacists, nurses and addiction counsellors, interested in expanding their knowledge of addiction and its related issues.