Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
Prevention
Adiktologie Journal
Adiktologie is an international journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific reports on psychoactive substance use, behavioural addictions and related issues.
UNIATF: Call for Nominations for the Task Force Awards 2019
The UN Interagency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (UNIATF) is calling for nominations for the UNIATF Award.
Xchange Prevention Registry
Xchange is an online registry of evidence-based prevention programmes. In its first phase, the registry will make available manualised interventions that European evaluation studies show have beneficial outcomes relating to substance use...
Claremont’s UPC Media Summer Institute Programme
Claremont Graduate University is offering one of the leading certificate programs for the advanced study of Media-Based Prevention Science.
Adolescent Beliefs About Hookah and Hookah Tobacco Use and Implications for Preventing Use
Abstract Introduction Hookah tobacco use is popular among youths and there is evidence that perceived risks and normative beliefs are associated with hookah use. The aim of this study was to further examine associations between perceived...
Standards of Evidence for Conducting and Reporting Economic Evaluations in Prevention Science
Abstract Over a decade ago, the Society for Prevention Research endorsed the first standards of evidence for research in preventive interventions. The growing recognition of the need to use limited resources to make sound investments in...
National Prevention Week
National Prevention Week is an annual health observance dedicated to increasing public awareness of, and action around, mental and/or substance use disorders.
SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week will take place May 12 through 18, 2019.
Alcohol-Induced End Organ Diseases
The 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Alcohol-Induced End Organ Diseases "Inflammation and Cell Death: Mechanisms of Tissue Injury by Alcohol" will provide a unique forum to bring together a diverse range of young and established scientists who are studying alcohol-related organ damage.
8th International Conference on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users
The 8th INHSU conference covers the latest advances on hepatitis C epidemiology, management and treatment of viral hepatitis among people who use drugs, with a specific focus on hepatitis C.
Through the dissemination of scientific knowledge, the conference aims to contribute to the World Health Organization’s goal of eliminating hepatitis C by 2030.
Free Training for Frontline Practitioners
Adfam is working with relationship support charities Tavistock Relationships and One Plus One to deliver a free training for frontline practitioners working in London, Bristol and Leeds.
The training will focus on reducing the impact of inter-parental conflict on children in families affected by alcohol misuse.