All Resources for 'Research, Data & Evaluation'

The Implementation of Quality Standards (QS) at Coolmine Therapeutic Community

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Scientific article
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Quality Assurance
Policy
Partner Organisation

BACKGROUND: Coolmine’s implementation of quality standards involves a period of change management, strategic planning, and national policy development.

METHODS: A narrative case study focusing on national policy and internal strategic...

AddictologyIssue 1/2023

The ASPIRE Standards: Taking a Step Towards Quality Assurance in Drug Prevention in France – A Case Study

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Format
Scientific article
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Addiction
Prevention
Quality Assurance
Partner Organisation

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.

M...

AddictologyIssue 1/2023

Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses

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Format
Scientific article
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Populations
Men
Women
Quality Assurance
Abstract

Importance  A previous meta-analysis of the association between alcohol use and all-cause mortality found no statistically significant reductions in mortality risk at low levels of consumption compared with lifetime nondrinkers...

The Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Drug Use Prevention within School Settings A Guiding Document

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Format
Book
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Prevention
Public Health
Policy Advocacy
Policy
Law Enforcement
Police 
Supply & Market Disruption
Regulatory Control of Substances
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Partner Organisation

In the context of law enforcement, the UNODC has developed a guiding document to help support a change of culture on how to make use of the science of prevention for the betterment of the health and safety development of youth.

The UNODC...

WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) Information Repository

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Format
Website
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Public Health
Policy
Data
On Thursday, June 1st, the WHO launched the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) Information Repository, which provides health professionals and drug policy experts with a single searchable database to freely access all technical reports on over 450 substances reviewed by the ECDD.

“Alcohol marketing to LGBTQ+ people”

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Video and audio recordings
Themes
Prevention
Public Health
Policy

Watch the video of the SHAAP/SARN 'Alcohol Occasionals' webinar, held over Zoom on 24 May 2023: "Alcohol marketing to LGBTQ+ people: Evolving strategies to target identity", by Dr David Whiteley .

The Impact of Alcohol Availability Interventions

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Scientific article
Themes
Public Health
Policy

Interventions that restrict the availability of alcohol reduce the risk of harm. However, until now it has been unclear why this is the case.

In this research, the views of public health teams, police, local authority licensing teams and...

Indonesia's INEP Plus Online Training

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News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Theories and Science

ISSUP Indonesia organized the Introduction to Evidence-Based Prevention (INEP) Online Course as a  national-level training in Indonesia with 17 participants. The training, conducted by Dr.dr. Kristiana Siste, SpKJ, and Dr. Elvina K...

Consumption of psychoactive substances in samples of the Guatemalan school population

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Scientific article
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Psychoactive Substances
Data

A research was carried out consisting of 4 master's degree graduation works, with mixed descriptive methodology, which deal with the different risk factors that cause students in Guatemala, who fall into problems of use, consumption and...

Rome Consensus 2.0 Summit conclusions

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News
Themes
Populations
Family
Policy
Following the conclusion of the Rome Consensus 2.0 Summit, we are still enthusiastic to have met so many partners in person and for the good outcome of the event, which was possible thanks to the availability and contribution of every single person.