Addiction

Economic Hardships and Patterns of Drug Consumption in Europe

Scientific article

30 August 2017

A new study recently published in the Journal of Health Economics considers the changes in patterns of drug consumption and attitudes towards substances among youth (15-24) across 28 European countries. Of particular interest for the...

Drugs, Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction

Book

23 August 2017

Since the 1930s, the response to drug addiction has moved from one that focuses on the need to punish users to another that recognises the importance of prevention and treatment approaches. In other words, thanks to scientific advances...

Why Are Many American Adults Misusing Prescription Painkillers?

Book

22 August 2017

Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...

Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults

Book

22 August 2017

Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...

Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses

Scientific article

1 July 2015

Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...

Webinar: Long Acting Injectables and Justice Involved Populations - Continuity of Mental Health and Addictions Treatment for Jail Inmates

7 September 2017

Webinar

United States

Navigating the complexities of the fragmented criminal justice and health care systems can be challenging for providers who treat the more than 50 percent of inmates who experience mental health and/or substance use disorders.

EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse

Book

15 August 2017

Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...

Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood

Book

15 August 2017

The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2017) is a special volume that supplements the organisation’s Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, released in 2003...

Online Drinking Interventions Shown to be Effective for Armed Service Personnel

Scientific article

14 August 2017

Almost two thirds of men in the UK Armed Forces are considered to drink harmful amounts of alcohol. This is compared with around one third of the average population. According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Army...

WHO's 2017 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report

Book

14 August 2017

The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download. Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least one...