School-Based

Using educational settings to foster social-emotional learning and prevent the use of substances.

ESPAD Report 2024

Report

21 October 2025

The ESPAD report presents the results of the eighth data-collection wave, which took place in 2024, and marks an impressive 30 years of data collection by this long-standing collaboration. More than 113 000 15- to 16-year-old students from...

Social and Economic Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on Young People: A case study of Teso region - Uganda.

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

30 October 2025

Context: Teso region in Eastern Uganda has one of the highest levels of alcohol and drug use Nationally. A project intervention aimed at preventing harmful use of alcohol and drugs among youth was initiated with support of Movendi /IOGT-NTO...

School-Based Prevention

20 May 2025

Online

Join us as for an informative webinar on school-based prevention featuring Dr. Dorothy Joann Lei Rabajante, Universal Prevention Curriculum Global Master Trainer and Dean of the School of Education, Ateneo de Zamboanga University.

Dr. Dorothy Joann Lei Rabajante Dr. Rabajante will provide an in-depth look at the science behind prevention strategies.

Attendees will learn to:

National Training Program on Prevention in Schools: The Paraguayan Experience

News

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2024, a public call from the Ministry of Education and Science for the contracting of a higher education institution to design and implement a training programme in strategies for preventing psychoactive substance use...

Money Matters: Time for Prevention and Early Intervention to Address Family Economic Circumstances

Scientific article

14 March 2025

Background Child poverty is linked to poorer physical and mental health, negative educational outcomes, and long-term social and psychological issues, all of which increase service demand and costs. Traditionally, prevention and early...

Feasibility Study of Linking Anonymous Data of Children in Longitudinal School-Based Prevention Research

Scientific article

30 September 2024

INTRODUCTION: Longitudinal prevention research in adolescents often involves sensitive data collection, necessitating anonymity. Self-Generated Identification Codes (SGICs) have emerged as a tool for linking anonymous data while preserving...

A Reflection on Prevention Systems: A European perspective

Guide

22 November 2024

Prevention science over the past years has accumulated evidence on the effectiveness of drug prevention interventions (Sloboda et al. 2014). In Europe this improvement has been a consequence of priorities defined by EU drug strategies since...

Components of a drug prevention system (EMCDDA, 2019)