The journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy has published a special edition focussing on Drug experienced young people in contact with the Criminal Justice System.

The collection of papers examines young peoples' experiences of substance use and/or offending and their impression of the support they have received. The research also explores the consequences of restrictive drug policies.

The papers in this collection are based on research from the EU funded EPPIC project (Exchanging Prevention practices on Polydrug use among youth In Criminal justice systems).

This report presents the current status of alcohol consumption, alcohol-attributable harms and the implementation of alcohol control policies in the WHO European Region, using available data from 2010, 2016 and 2019.

A detailed overview is provided of the implementation of alcohol policies described in the 10 action areas of the European Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol 2012–2020 (EAPA), including the current status of implementation of the five action areas of the WHO-led SAFER initiative:

1. Strengthen restrictions on alcohol availability;
2. Advance and enforce drink–driving...

This report presents new findings from the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) network, based on the chemical analysis of the contents of used syringes across sentinel sites in Europe.

Syringes were collected in 2018 and 2019 from the bins of street automatic injection-kit dispensers and at harm reduction services in eight European cities: Amsterdam, Budapest, Cologne, Helsinki, Lausanne, Oslo, Paris and Vilnius.

This report provides a brief summary of some of the challenges, old and new, that women and girls face in the context of the tobacco epidemic in the WHO European Region, outlining the gendered nature of tobacco use and exposure and how the tobacco industry continues to target them through gendered messaging. It also provides recommendations for approaches and policy interventions that take a gender lens to tobacco control.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) strongly underpins gender equality and highlights the importance of addressing gender-specific risks. This report...

This report reviews how opioid substitution treatment (OST) is implemented in European countries and examines the public health consequences of the diversion and misuse of prescription OST medications.

It looks at how OST medications are diverted to the illicit market, the motivations behind diversion and misuse, and considers the measures to prevent diversion and how they must ensure that the treatment remains available and accessible for those who need it.

Objective: To explore innovative programmes providing solutions in the field of homelessness and drugs.

Background: The association between long-term homelessness, problem drug use and alcohol dependence are well documented. Evidence suggests that a relatively small, long-term and recurrently homeless population has a high prevalence of mental health problems and substance dependence. In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is much concern that the health and social wellbeing of members of this population will worsen. Addressing their diverse and complex needs is...

د پومپیدو ډله د ځوانانو د پروژو غوښتنه کوی چې د ۲۰۲۱ کال د اروپا د نشه یی توکو د مخنیوی د جایزې لپاره غوښتنلیکونه وړاندې کړی.

د مخنیوی جایزه د نشه یی توکو د مخنیوی د غوره پروژو د روښانه کولو لپاره ورکول کیږی چې د هغوی په ډیزاین ، تطبیق او ارزونه کې د ځوانانو په ګډون کې بریالی ثابت شوی دی.

تر دریو پروژو پورې به جایزه ورکول کیږی. د جایزې په  مراسمو کې ، هر یو به د جایزې جایزه ، د جایزې ډیپلوم او 5.000 € ترلاسه کوی چې د پلی کولو ملاتړ وکړی. د جایزې ګټونکی موږ ته وایی چې د جایزې ګټلو له دوی سره مرسته کړې چې د دوی د کار لپاره لا زیات وپېژندل شی.

د غوښتنلیک د سپارلو وروستۍ نېټه د ۲۰۲۱ کال د جنورۍ...