Practice

Seminar on Cost-Effective Measures for Reducing Harmful Use of Alcohol

28 February 2017

Bogota

Colombia

In 2016, Colombia’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection, in collaboration with PAHO, developed a strategic and management framework to manage the harmful use of alcohol in the country. This framework is aligned with the National Plan for Health Promotion, Prevention, and Care for Psychoactive Substances, and draws on global guidelines and recommendations.

Adfam’s Manifesto for Families: 5 Key Challenges for Supporting Families Affected by Drug and Alcohol Use

Book

1 January 2010

“You don’t have to use drugs to be affected by them.” In 2010 Adfam identified five key challenges for families that the Government should address, identified by stakeholders across England. They were: Supporting families in their own right...

Working with Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Due to Parental Substance Use

Book

1 January 2011

This guide offers advice and suggestions to support service providers to deliver effective services to grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren due to parental substance misuse. It draws heavily on the work of Adfam’s Grandparent...

Supporting Families Affected by Substance Use and Domestic Violence

Book

10 May 2010

This research report analyses how domestic violence and abuse is more likely than not to occur within intimate partner relationships where one partner has a problem with alcohol or drugs. The aims of this research project were: To explore...

Supporting families affected by substance use and domestic violence

Validity and Reliability of the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) in University Students

Scientific article

15 January 2016

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...

Real Voices in Volunteering

Book

1 January 2012

Adfam published this volunteering toolkit to provide all the information, policy, law and resources needed on volunteering, families and substance use. Volunteers have always played an essential role in the family support and substance use...

Webinar: Promising and Established Practices for Family Caregiver Engagement

28 February 2017

Webinar

Canada

Date & Time:

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)

Join the first webinar in the Family Caregiver Community of Interest Series: "Breaking Barriers: Family Navigation Program."

Webinar: Enhancing Residential Addiction Treatment Services

3 February 2017

Webinar

Canada

Date & Time:

Fri, 3 February 2017

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST

Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016

Scientific article

3 February 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...

New Online Training for Practitioners, Peer Mentors and Service Managers

News

This new platform allows substance misuse, probation and prison services to upskill their workforces in a scalable and consistent way, and optimise their use of the digital behaviour change programme Breaking Free. Service providers can now...