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Four Personality Traits Can Predict Addiction Risk – And Stop It Before It Starts
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New research reveals that four specific personality traits can predict who will develop addiction problems – and more importantly, how targeted addiction prevention strategies can stop substance abuse before it begins. A groundbreaking Canadian programme...
The Deep Impact of Youth Substance Use The Imperative and Urgent Need for Prevention: A Dive into Human Harms Beyond the ‘Stats’ (White Paper)
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While policy makers debate the finer points of harm reduction versus prevention, and schools struggle to squeeze in a single hour of drug education between standardised tests, real kids are making real decisions about substance...
Reducing Substance Abuse Problems: Youth Abstinence Policies are Superior to Harm Reduction Policies.
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SUMMARY: Australian youth harm minimisation drug policies increased substance use and harm and were inferior to American abstinence polices. When Australia adopted abstinence polices, substance use and harm reduced Professor John Toumbourou, Deakin University. View...
Asia-Pacific Prevention Hearing 2024 – The Declaration of Oviedo
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The 2024 United Nations World Day Against Illicit Drugs & Trafficking theme is “The evidence is clear: invest in prevention”. The internationally backed Declaration of Oviedo assiduously affirms that prevention must be the priority for our communities. This...
Taking the NOVEL out of NPS – Health Harms & Reducing Demand
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Learning is Education that Transforms: Education changes behaviour, but what ‘kind’ of education does this? Whilst we will examine key aspects of the Harms done by New/Novel Psychoactive Substances, what we don’t want to do...
Save Your Brain – DFA
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COURSE OUTLINE Introduction Drug Free Australia is pleased to offer a suite of health education modules, with a focus on Drug Use Prevention. ‘Save Your Brain’ (SYB) is available in age-appropriate formats from Years...
Protective Factor Number One in Drug Use Prevention Science
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Protective Factor Number One in Drug Use Prevention Science: In Denying or Delaying Uptake of Substances the Key Protective Factor for Your Children/Students is the “Belief that Drug are Bad” Latest research out of University...
WFAD Prevention Webinar Series 2021
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(With Carlton Hall LLC) Each webinar was interactive and elaborated on discussions suiting the topic. The webinar series showcased that prevention is a necessity and an art that has to be crafted in every...
Prevention & Demand Reduction – An all of Community Approach
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The Dalgarno Institute has long advocated for an anthropological approach to the cultural ‘symptom’ of substance use. Drug use invariably causes (at the very least) some level of harm to both the drug user (their...
Health Care Professionals and Families Must Focus on Youth Substance Use Prevention
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Health Care Professionals and Families Must Focus on Youth Substance Use Prevention The peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open asked Robert L. DuPont, MD and Caroline DuPont, MD, President and Vice President, respectively, of IBH, to respond to...
UNODC/WHO International Standards on Drug Use Prevention
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Second updated edition Prevention strategies based on scientific evidence working with families, schools, and communities can ensure that children and youth, especially the most marginalized and poor, grow and stay healthy and safe into adulthood...
Australian National Curriculum Framework Segue
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No Brainer AOD Education Overview The “No Brainer” Program and the Australian Curriculum The No Brainer program aims to focus on factors that are best practice for a safe, healthy and more productive community,...
