All Resources for 'Community-Based Prevention'

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) Bulletin: An Update on Stimulant Use and Related Harms in Canada and the United States

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Format
Guide
Themes
Treatment
Pharmacological Interventions
Treatment Settings
Psychoactive Substances
Addiction
Public Health
Partner Organisation

The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba...

Experiences of frontline healthcare workers and their views about support during COVID-19 and previous pandemics: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis

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Format
Scientific article
Themes
Recovery Support
Populations
Family
Quality Assurance
Public Health

Background

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health...

Disruptions to U.S. local public health’s role in population-based substance use prevention and response during COVID-19

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Public Health

Background

COVID-19 dramatically limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not...

UNODC held a National Round Table on the "Family UNited" programme

Format
News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family

Nukus, Republic of Karakalpakstan. 7 December 2022. The Regional Office in Central Asia of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ROCA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Karakalpakstan...

FEDERSERD SICILY | REGIONAL CONGRESS 2022

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News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Public Health
Infectious Diseases

UPDATE IN DEPENDENCIES - SICILY – 2022
CHANGES IN LIFESTYLES, TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CLINIC,
NEW CONFIGURATIONS OF NEEDS, EVOLUTION OF MODELS
ORGANIZATIONAL AND TREATMENT
Conference Room NH HOTEL PALERMO

The change in consumption styles and...

Legal responses to novel psychoactive substances implemented by ten European countries: An analysis from legal epidemiology

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Psychoactive Substances
Policy
Law
Law Enforcement
Regulatory Control of Substances

Abstract

Introduction

Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to pose challenges to law enforcement authorities, public health officers and policymakers as suppliers continuously adapt to control measures, thus remaining highly...

National policymakers and key stakeholders in Kyrgyzstan enhance their knowledge on drug use disorder system Quality Assurance through UNODC training

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News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Quality Assurance
Law Enforcement
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion

The UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) conducted a National Training “UNODC Drug Use Disorder Treatment Systems Quality Assurance (QA)” which took place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 28-30 November 2022.

This capacity building...