All Resources for 'Education & Training'

INTRODUCTION:

The Cyprus National Addictions Authority (NAAC) is the main coordinating body for all matters related to licit and illicit substances as well as pathological gambling in Cyprus and it is responsible, inter alia, for the...

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Contextual and Higher Education Challenges in the Fields of Harm Reduction, on the 26th of June, 2024.

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Global Developments in Addiction Studies, on the 26th of June, 2024.

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Navigating Prevention: Insights from Diverse Programs and Strategies, on the 26th of June, 2024.

BACKGROUND:

In the field of harm reduction (HR), an established quality assurance system with implemented quality standards is rather rare in practice. Together with limited evidence in this area, this leads to an imbalance in the basic...

WORLD RESILIENCY WEEK - 2024

IT’S TIME TO CHANGE THE VIEW – IT’S TIME FOR A NEW LENS.

Resilience H.E.R.O.E.S are the New Champs of the community. If building #resilient communities – if proactive prevention and demand reduction are the...

INTRODUCTION:

Prevention science and quality standards of drug prevention in the EU and in the world have developed in recent decades. Progress has been made in quality development in Croatia, but the experience of the process of improving...

BACKGROUND:

The implementation of quality standards in the treatment of substance use disorders in Lithuania is not well documented in the literature.

AIMS:

To describe the process of the development of quality standards from grassroots...

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Navigating Prevention: Insights from Diverse Programs and Strategies, on the 26th of June, 2024.

INTRODUCTION:

In the favourable political climate of the mid-2010s, the standards for Assessment & Selection of Prevention programmes Issued from the Review of EDPQS (ASPIRE) were developed to support project planning in drug prevention.

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