The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns.
Public Health
Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland: A Qualitative Study of Children and Young People’s Own Drinking and Related Behaviour
Talk title:
Minimum Unit Pricing in Scotland: A qualitative study of children and young people’s own drinking and related behaviour
Speakers:
Dr Briege Nugent & Ian Clark, Director of Iconic Consulting
Tobacco Use After a Cancer Diagnosis Podcast
Tobacco use worsens the prognosis of cancer patients and can also reduce the efficacy of cancer therapy. Despite these concerns, tobacco use is often not adequately recorded in patient records or measured in cancer treatment trials or...
Trends and characteristics in MDMA deaths in Australia 2000-2018
The seminar will provide information on deaths related to MDMA in Australia during a period when MDMA markets have undergone substantial changes, with increasing manufacture of high purity MDMA.
Among the 392 deaths identified, the individuals’ characteristics and the circumstances of death will be described.
Echo Online Training for Child Intervention for Living Drug-Free (CHILD) Curriculum
The Drug Advisory Programme (DAP) of the Colombo Plan in collaboration with the National Narcotics Board of the Republic of Indonesia (BNN) has successfully conducted the first online echo training for the CHILD curriculum on Course 1...
Webinar: ISSUP South Africa – Cannabis and the Youth in South Africa
ISSUP Global and ISSUP South Africa brought Siphokazi Dada, to present on the subject of Cannabis Use amongst South African use. The trends, the policy changes and data on the impact of the decriminalisation to review the changes in demand and cannabis related problems.
Webinar: ISSUP South Africa - COVID-19 ~ What can be done through us
This first webinar from ISSUP South Africa focusses upon the toll of Covid-19 upon social factors, which can thereby affect substance use disorders.
Methods for Understanding and Addressing Stigma To Prevent Common Risk Factors for Disease
In this presentation, Dr. Valerie Earnshaw provides a cross-cutting conceptual overview of stigma, identifies targets for stigma measurement, recommends methodological approaches for stigma research, and reviews the intervention toolkit to...
Academic Programs in Drug Treatment and Prevention at Paraguayan Universities
This video is a recording of a webinar on January 31, 2020 where presenters Diana Lesme Romero, Ph.D. , Maria Cecilia Munoz Perez, MSc. and Graciela Barreto Castro, Ph.D. discuss the complex drug problem in Paraguay and review the...
Leveraging Partnerships in Planning
This webinar highlights the value of partnering with elected officials, law enforcement professionals, school administrators and educators, parent and student organizations, faith-based organizations, local media and businesses for a...
Prevention of Prescription Drug Misuse Among the Latino Community
Prescription drugs have become an integral player in today’s opioid epidemic, but they had already been negatively impacting Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States. This webinar described how, utilizing the Strategic...