All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

Effect of Community Support on the Implementation of Primary Health Care-Based Measurement of Alcohol Consumption

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Abstract

Alcohol measurement delivered by health care providers in primary health care settings is an efficacious and cost-effective intervention to reduce alcohol consumption among patients. However, this intervention is not yet routinely...

Real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments of opioid use disorder in a national cohort

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Populations
Men
Abstract
Aim

To investigate the real-world effectiveness of pharmacological treatments (buprenorphine, methadone) of opioid use disorder (OUD).

Design

A nation-wide, register-based cohort study.

Setting

Sweden.

Participants

All...

UNODC promotes the dialogue on drug demand reduction across Central Asia at ISSUP Abu Dhabi 2022 Conference

Format
News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Quality Assurance
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Within the framework of UNODC global project GLOJ71”Treating drug dependence and its health consequences: Treatnet II” UNODC ROCA in collaboration with Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS) HQ supported participation of 19...

Strategy for Preventing Opioid Use Disorder in Communities

Format
Book
Themes
Prevention
Policy

Key Issues

  • Substance use often begins in adolescence.
  • Any substance use in adolescence can have detrimental effects on the developing brain.
  • Effects of substance use/misuse accumulate over time increasing societal costs and public...

Awareness Lecture and Workshop on Risky Behaviors & Substance Use in an International Family Medicine Conference, Avari Hotel, Lahore Pakistan

Format
News
Themes
Treatment
Behavioural Therapy Interventions
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Populations
Family

Two days International Family Medicine Conference has been arranged at Avari Hotel in Lahore Pakistan on May 21 and 22, 2022. The organizers were the team members of WONCA SAR. The guest speaker/trainer invited to grace these initiatives...

“Emergency Psychology and Trauma Clinic”

Format
News
Themes
Mental Health

The post-graduate study course “Psychology of Emergency and Clinical Trauma”, organized by the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of The Kore University of Enna, aims to train the figure of the Psychologist or Physician with skills in...

Changes in Alcohol Use in Denmark during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Format
Scientific article
Themes
Public Health

Abstract

Introduction: The year 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy responses to COVID-19 affected social and economic life and the availability of alcohol. Previous research has shown an overall small decrease in alcohol use...