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HOW CAN YOU PRIORITISE THE CHILD WHEN YOUR PATIENT IS THE PARENT?
Guidance insists child welfare is paramount, even if your client is not the child, but their parent. The temptation is to sideline this uncomfortable but important work...
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), is following the lives of around 19,000 young people born across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In 2018-2019, the researchers from UCL analysed data from 10,000 17 years olds on their...
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet.
They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build...
Since the adoption of the first European Drug Strategy 2000–2004, the EU clearly defines drug-related problems as primarily being a Public Health issue. This approach was also endorsed recently by the Community of Latin American and...
Following the launch of the UNODC-WHO International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders (2016) (“the Standards”), there was a need for new globally applicable tools to ensure a qualified and effective response to drug use...
A study by Unifesp identified that the Ministry of Health's school prevention program reduces the initiation of alcohol use by adolescents.
Adolescents who participated in the program's classes were 22% less likely to initiate alcohol use...
This report shares the findings from Adfam's State of the Sector Family Support Survey which in 2019 asked 117 practitioners and managers working in family support services in England about current trends, developments, strengths and...
In April, 241 people coping with a friend or family member’s alcohol, drug or gambling problem responded to an online survey by Adfam which sought to understand how some of their usual daily challenges associated with addiction- fear...
Dual diagnosis is the term used to describe people with mental health problems, who also misuse drugs or alcohol.
People affected by dual diagnosis often fall through the cracks of public services, and so do their families. Those cracks...
Adfam, in collaboration with the University of York, and funded by the Forces in Mind Trust, has published a research report outlining the experiences and needs of families of veterans with substance use problems (FVSUs), along with a new...
