A recent study, conducted by the Guardian and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, has revealed that Facebook has marked hundreds of thousands of children as “interested in” adverts about gambling and alcohol.
Facebook gains information...
گزشتہ کئی دہائیوں کے دوران بہت سے ممالک میں نوجوانوں کی بے روزگاری اعلی سطح پر مستحکم رہی ہے۔
اسی عرصے کے دوران، ایسے شواہد سامنے آئے ہیں جن سے پتہ چلتا ہے کہ بے روزگاری کسی فرد کی ذہنی اور جسمانی صحت پر منفی اثر ڈال سکتی ہے.
اس کے نتیجے...
گزشتہ برسوں کے دوران، تمباکو کے استعمال میں عالمی سطح پر کمی آئی ہے، اور ممالک نے ثبوت پر مبنی اور لاگت پر قابو پانے کے اقدامات تیار کرنے میں اہم پیش رفت کی ہے. نتیجتا، تمباکو کی صنعتوں کو نئی مصنوعات تیار کرنا پڑی ہیں اور اپنے سامان کی...
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...
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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...
This technical report focuses on an elimination barometer for viral hepatitis to help countries assess progress towards eliminating hepatitis C and B among people who inject drugs (PWID).
The barometer is being developed by the EMCDDA...
It is recognised that harmful alcohol consumption is more common amongst those who have served in the UK armed forces.
However this is not just an issue for the individual who has served in the army. In a recent study conducted by...
In terms of global alcohol consumption, Russia has been consistently considered one of the countries with the highest track record of heavy drinking.
However, recent figure have found Russian alcohol consumption has decreased by 43% from...
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...
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...
Opioids are a class of drugs that act on the nervous system to produce feelings of pleasure and pain relief. Opioids have a high potential for causing addiction in some people and can cause life-threatening health problems, including the...
دنیا بھر میں افیون کی زیادہ مقدار سے ہونے والی اموات کی تعداد میں ڈرامائی اضافہ ہوا ہے۔
آبادی کے کچھ حصوں کو اوپیوئڈ کے استعمال کی خرابی اور حد سے زیادہ خوراک کی ترقی کے خطرے کا زیادہ خطرہ ہے. ایسا ہی ایک گروہ فوجداری انصاف کے نظام میں...
The success of treatment and recovery of individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) can vary. Most often, a combination of factors adds complexities to evaluating the effectiveness of services and interventions.
Worldwide, overdose is the...
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،...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The International Program and the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will host the 13th Annual NIDA International SPR Poster Session at the SPR 28th Annual Meeting in...
