The goal of the present handbook is to offer encouragement, examples, rationales and concrete advice on how to increase youth participation in substance use prevention, harnessing the insights of young people on the most important target group in prevention efforts: their peers. It is designed to enable all decision makers to capitalise on the power of youth participation, exploring the full potential of young people as a force for change. The guidance is aimed at leaders in charge of substance use prevention and health promotion efforts at the local, regional, national and international...

Do you work in, use or design overdose prevention centres (OPCs)? 

Do you work in a position directly related to the outcomes of OPCs (emergency service personnel, public health practitioner or policymaker?)?

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast invite people to give their views on what outcomes we should use to evaluate overdose prevention centres. Participants are sought for an e-Delphi study to shape the global standard for evaluating OPCs, by answering two short surveys.

Can you help? For more info on how to participate in the study, please click the links below:

Study...

Por si te lo perdiste, aquí puedes encontrar la grabación del webinar de ISSUP Colombia: Prevención, qué tenemos basado en la evidencia en América Latina

Ponentes: 

Augusto Pérez- Gómez

El profesor Augusto Pérez-Gómez es doctor en psicología por la Universidad de Lovaina (Bélgica). Ha trabajado en cuatro universidades: Lille (Francia); Los Andes (Colombia); Universidad de Londres como Profesor visitante; y también en la Escuela de Medicina y Odontología de la Universidad de New Jersey (USA). Desde 2002, es el Director de la Corporación Nuevos Rumbos, y fue nombrado director de ISSUP...