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Does Cancer Risk Increase With Alcohol Consumption?

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A study published on July 13 by the scientific journal The Lancet Oncology attributed more than 4% of all new cancer cases in 2020 to alcohol consumption. Cancer – what is it? Cancer is a term that encompasses more than 100 different types...

Technical guidance and modules on community-based mental health services: promoting people-centred and rights-based approaches: summary

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10 June 2021

spring: World Health Organization. (‎2021)‎. Technical guidance and modules on community mental health services: promoting people-centred and rights-based approaches: summary. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle...

Changes in Alcohol Use in Adults and Consequences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S.

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As stay-at-home orders began in some U.S. states as a strategy to mitigate the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Nielsen reported a 54% increase in national alcohol sales for the week ended March 21, 2020, compared to 1...

Brazilian experts speak out about the poisoning cases and deaths from diethylene glycol present in Brazilian craft beers

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Dr. Zila M. Sanchez, Camila L. Oliveira, Dr. Ronaldo Laranjeira and Dr. Raul Caetano had a Letter to the Editor published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, where they talk about cases of poisoning and deaths from diethylene...

Intoxicação e mortes por contaminação por dietilenoglicol em cervejas artesanais brasileiras

Dealing with Feelings and Preventing Drug Use

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*By Claudemir dos Santos and Rodrigo Flaire In another video of Prevent Always, Rodrigo Flaire – State Coordinator of Drug Policies of São Paulo – and Claudemir dos Santos – Technical Director of Prevention of COED-SP, talk about how to...

Life Skills and the prevention of psychoactive substance use

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According to Botvin (2004) and Sloboda (2004), there is empirical evidence that prevention programs, such as Life Skills, based on knowledge, identification of risk factors and development of psychosocial skills related to drugs are more...

The Life Skills Model

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Life skills are capacities for positive adaptive behavior, which enable us to effectively negotiate the demands and challenges of everyday life. They involve personal skills that will enhance interpersonal relationships. The WHO suggests...

Life Skills as a Form of Prevention

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Adolescence is one of the most important periods of people's lives. This phase of human development, in which the child becomes an adult, delimits the potential for psychological growth of the individual. Depending on how one structures...

Segundo Organização Mundial da Saúde, cigarros prejudicam seriamente o meio ambiente

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Não é novidade pra ninguém que fumar faz mal pra saúde, não só daqueles que fumam mas também de quem estiver ao redor. Além de causar doenças como o câncer e de viciar, o cigarro também tem um impacto negativo no meio ambiente. E esse...

World day without tobacco 2018: Tobacco and heart disease

31 May 2018

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World day without tobacco 2018: Tobacco and heart disease

May 31, 2018

On 31 May of each year, the who and its partners celebrated the world no tobacco day in order to highlight the risks associated with smoking, both for health and other areas, and advocate for effective policies to reduce their consumption.