The Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) together with the UNODC Civil Society Unit (CSU) held a webinar on 10th March 2021 discussing the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention. The webinar included opening remarks from Mirella Dummar-Frahi from the CSU and Jamie Bridge from the VNGOC, a presentation by UNODC expert Giovanna Campello on the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention, two civil society panellists (Dayana Joseph from Fourth Wave Foundation and Eric Siervo from CADCA), and an open Q&A session.

The Adiktologie Journal is the professional journal for research concerning the prevention and treatment of addiction.

Below, you can find articles that make up the December 2020 edition.

EDITORIAL

From Prevention Programmes to Health Literacy Promotion

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Alcohol Consumption among Slovak Schoolchildren: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Unplugged Programme

The Relationship between the Consumption of Different Types of Alcoholic Beverages and Household Income Inequality

The Qualitative Arm of the ATTUNE Research in the Czech Republic: The Methods, Study Design...

‘Listen First’ and ‘The Science of Care’ materials have been translated into Slovenian and are being released nationally in Slovenia by the Institute for Research and Development (UTRIP) through its ‘Prevention Platform’ programme, which is supported by the Ministry of Health.

The materials will be broadcast by all nationally and locally relevant TV stations and featured in many newspapers in 2021, as well as on social media. Based on the demand from health and social services, kindergartens, and schools, the ‘Science Sheets’ will be distributed and posted on information boards that inform...

Sport can be a powerful tool to engage communities and prevent crime, violence and drug use among youth. As part of the Doha Declaration Global Programme, UNODC’s Youth Crime Prevention through Sport initiative has developed “Line Up Live Up”, an evidence-informed, sport-based life skills training for youth that aims to increase resilience to crime, violence and drug use among young people.

Providing key elements from this approach, a new publication – Youth Crime prevention through Sport: Insights from the UNODC “Line Up Live Up” Pilot Programme – has been developed, offering an analysis of...

Join us for this free virtual summit featuring Ms. Giovanna Campello, Chief, UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, and Dr. Robert DuPont, President, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. and First Director, U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, as the Keynotes and hear from many global leaders in prevention, including Joanna Travis-Roberts, Chief Executive, ISSUP Coordinating Office; Anna Nabulya, Deputy Director, Uganda Youth Development Link; Antonio Jesús Molina Fernández, Assistant Professor, Department of Social, Work and Differential Psychology at Universidad...

The Pompidou Group calls for youth projects to submit applications for the 2021 edition of the European Drug Prevention Prize.

The Prevention Prize is awarded to highlight outstanding drug prevention projects that have proved successful in involving young people in their design, implementation and evaluation.

Up to three projects will be awarded a Prize. During the Award Ceremony, each will receive the Prize Trophy, the Prize Diploma and €5.000 to support implementation. Prize-winners tell us that winning the Prize has helped them gain greater recognition for their work.

The deadline for...

Listen First is a UNODC initiative to support happy, healthy and happy family relationships.

This video demonstrates how patience makes children feel cared for and loved and is key in creating meaningful relationships and good communication.

Key messages:

• Science proves that the less punishing the parental style, the better for the child.

• When parents lose their patience, they remove a child’s attention from the lesson at hand and create stress and frustration for their children.

• Neuroscience shows that the brain of a child is not mature enough to calmly handle frustration. It...