World No Tobacco Day
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5th Annual CBC Conference, Behaviour Change for Health: Digital and Other Innovative Methods
The UCL Centre for Behaviour Change (CBC), in collaboration with the UCL Institute for Digital Health, is delighted to confirm its fifth behaviour change conference.
The 5th annual CBC conference will invite academia and industry to present on health-related behaviour using digital/not digital and hybrid technologies.
A Protocol for a Tobacco Free Detox Unit
Though it has become mandatory for public health facilities to become smoke-free it has been difficult to implement this policy in particular in detox, drug and alcohol units and mental health units.
Particularly complex in-patients in detox units have smoking patients objecting to a smoke free environment, commonly flout regulations, become argumentative and often self-discharge.
Conference: Communities Speak
IOGT International invites you to an innovative space to jointly explore comprehensive solutions to the world drug problem. Welcome to this much-needed and innovative conference.
What's The Crack Podcast
Barely a week goes by without legal highs, binge drinking, or the latest celebrity rehab hitting the headlines. But have you ever wondered what the facts are behind drug and addiction news stories? Three researchers from the National...
Nordic Workshop: Who Decides the Relevance and Validity of Knowledge?
Objective: This small-scale 2-day workshop targets researchers interested in unfolding the relationship between science and policy-making in questions of public health and lifestyle regulation (concerning for example alcohol, drugs, and tobacco use; gambling; nutrition)
Alcohol and the Sustainable Development Goals – Major Obstacle to Development
Alcohol is an obstacle to achieving 13 out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 52 of 169 targets. A major obstacle to sustainable human development: Alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide every year, representing 5.9 % of all...
Youth Drinking in Decline
Youth alcohol consumption is declining across most high-income nations, often alongside concurrent decreases in drug use and smoking. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the nature and underlying reasons for this decline.
The Kettil Bruun Society is holding a thematic meeting to discuss the nature of these trends.
The programme will be organised around the following themes:
Intention to Reduce Drinking Alcohol and Preferred Sources of Support
Although rates vary from country to country, harmful alcohol use can be considered a global public health concern. The Global Drug Survey (GDS) is the world's largest annual survey of substance use. A recent study, published in the Journal...
Webinar: Investing in Prevention: Standards and Innovation in Economic Evaluation
Advocates of prevention have long touted its value, but researchers’ success in quantifying the economic benefits of preventive interventions have often been limited by fragmented methods and practice.
A number of efforts by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Academies, federal agencies, and foundations over the last decade have led to improvements in these methods.