30 policymakers from the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, the National Narcotics Board (BNN), the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, the Ministry of Interior, and other entities participated in a three-day workshop on creating humane, effective and evidence-based drug use prevention and drug dependence treatment and care services.

This training, being held from 14 – 16 October 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia was organized by UNODC Headquarters together with the UNODC Programme Office in Indonesia (POIDN), the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs and with the generous...

GISA Organises National Training of Trainers on UPC School Based Track in Nigeria

Between July 9 and 18th 2019, Global Initiative on Substance Abuse (GISA) in collaboration with the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Programme and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), United States organized national training of trainers on the School Based Track of the Universal Prevention Curriculum in Lagos State, Nigeria. The training commenced with an opening ceremony witnessed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education who was represented by the Director, Basic...

This week the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released the European Prevention Curriculum - a handbook designed for decision, opinion and policy makers in science-based prevention of substance use. The aim of the EUPC initiative is to implement a standardised prevention training curriculum in Europe and improve the overall effectiveness of prevention.

Adapted from the Universal Prevention Curriculum by the EU-funded UPC-Adapt group, the handbook is based on the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and the European Drug Prevention Quality...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

The EDPQS Toolkits have been tailored to meet the needs of different groups of professionals working within the prevention field.

EDPQS Toolkit 1: Funding and Decision Making

EDPQS Toolkit 2: Self-Assessment & Reflection

EDPQS...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

This Toolkit will be of use to everyone working within the drug prevention community. It will be of particular interest to those involved in planning or implementing a drug prevention activity, programme or initiative. Practitioners...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

EDPQS Toolkit 3 is intended for those wishing to provide training on quality standards in prevention. The Toolkit allows trainers to utilise existing knowledge and materials relating to training on EDPQS, instead of having to develop...

یورپی ڈرگ پریوینشن کوالٹی اسٹینڈرڈز کو معیار کا ایک جامع سیٹ فراہم کرنے کے لئے قائم کیا گیا ہے تاکہ صارفین کو 'اعلی معیار' کی روک تھام کی سرگرمیوں کو پہچاننے، اعلی معیار کی روک تھام کے ضروری ساختی اور طریقہ کار کے پہلوؤں کا خاکہ پیش کرنے، اور مؤثر ثبوت پر مبنی عمل کو تیار کرنے اور جائزہ لینے کے لئے حکمت عملی کی حمایت کرنے میں مدد ملے۔

ای ڈی پی کیو ایس ٹول کٹ 4 کا مقصد منشیات کی روک تھام میں معیار کے معیار ، اور خاص طور پر ای ڈی پی کیو ایس کو فروغ دینے میں مدد کرنا ہے۔ یہ پالیسی سازوں ، پریکٹیشنرز اور محققین کے عملی تجربات کا اشتراک کرتا ہے جنہوں نے اپنے ممالک یا پیشہ ورانہ سیاق و سباق میں...

The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards have been established to provide a comprehensive set of criteria to help users learn how to recognise 'high quality' prevention activities, outline the necessary structurally and procedural aspects of high-quality prevention, and support strategies to develop implement, and review effective evidence-based practice.

This toolkit has been developed especially for decision-makers (including policy-makers, policy-managers, policy-officers, commissioners and funders) working in the field of drug prevention or health promotion at national, regional...

This year's conference theme, Why Context Matters: Towards a Place-Based Prevention Science, challenges prevention scientists to explicitly recognize the central role that geographical concepts such as location, distance, distribution, connectivity, place, neighbourhood, and activity space (routine locations of individuals) have on health outcomes.

This call for papers seeks to stimulate creative spatial thinking to advance prevention science by further integrating place into existing behavioural theories, testing new theories and research designs, using technologies such as Geographic...

موریشس میں جنوری 2019 میں 12-14 سال کے اسکولی بچوں کے لئے گیٹ کنیکٹڈ منشیات کے استعمال کی روک تھام کا پروگرام شروع کیا گیا تھا۔ مہارت پر مبنی یہ پروگرام یورپی یونین ان پلگڈ پروگرام سے متاثر اور اپنایا گیا ہے۔ یہ منشیات کے استعمال کی روک تھام پر یو این او ڈی سی کے بین الاقوامی معیارات کے مطابق ہے اور یو این او ڈی سی کی مدد سے نافذ کیا گیا ہے۔ پروگرام کے آغاز سے قبل وزارت تعلیم، انسانی وسائل، تیسرے درجے کی تعلیم اور سائنسی تحقیق (ایم او ای ایچ آر ٹی ای ایس آر) کی اعلیٰ قیادت اور سیکنڈری اسکولوں کے ریکٹرز اور منیجرز کی حساسیت کا اہتمام کیا گیا۔ روک تھام پیکیج کو موریشس کی ترتیب کے لئے اپنی مرضی...