Source: Wikimedia Commons: Family Confrontation by flat earth theater, CC BY-SA 2.0 In Jonah Berger’s excellent new book, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind, he discusses effective ways to get ...

A data-driven intervention that engaged communities to rapidly deploy evidence-based practices to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths – such as increasing naloxone distribution and enhancing access ...

ZIMBABWE has unveiled a new National Youth Policy for the period 2026-2030 aimed at tackling challenges affecting young people, including unemployment, drug and substance abuse.The National Youth ...

For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher at ...

Jean-Luc Lemahieu is Director of the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 25 June 2024 The theme of this year’s International Day against Drug ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Interventions to address stimulant and opioid use that consider race and gender may prove more effective at preventing overdose deaths than current methods, according to a Penn ...

In the struggle against the opioid epidemic in the United States, any positive news is welcome. The crisis is acute: the last report from the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2014, found ...

The Interior Minister and Volta Regional Minister with Security officers The Minister for the Interior and Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has raised concerns over the ...

Lata Devi from Himachal Pradesh led a community anti-drug campaign that cut drug abuse by 80% through school programs, police ...

FOR decades, the fight against illicit drugs has been one of the most complex challenges facing nations around the world.