COVID-19 related Intervention

Response strategies for substance use and COVID-19.

Icon

EMCDDA webinar: COVID-19 and patterns of drugs use

17 June 2020

Webinar

This is the fourth EMCDDA webinar on the coronavirus and will be based on a recent Trendspotter exercise on drug use.

Registration now open >>

A conversation with:

Webinar: ISSUP South Africa - COVID-19 ~ What can be done through us

ISSUP Webinar

This first webinar from ISSUP South Africa focusses upon the toll of Covid-19 upon social factors, which can thereby affect substance use disorders.

Webinar: Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic

ISSUP Webinar

Four experts, brought together by ISSUP Ukraine discuss measures being taken in Ukraine to address the mental health issues brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. The speakers focus upon psychosocial aspects of the pandemic; destigmatisation of mental health issue; stress factors for the healthcare professions and support initiatives during quarantine.

Supporting Students During COVID 19

Video and audio recordings

This webinar presented by Cary Hopkins Eyles covers how to help university students succeed during this difficult time in their education.

Alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 period: May 2020

Book

The aim of this paper is to analyse changes in alcohol consumption since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that the frequency of alcohol consumption during COVID-19 is slightly higher for males than it was 2-3 years previously...

COVID-19 and Alcohol Use

16 June 2020

Webinar

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have taken decisive steps to stop the spread of the virus. In these critical circumstances, everyone must be informed about other health risks and hazards so that they can stay safe and healthy.

Regional Dialogue on Care and Rehabilitation of People with Substance Use Disorder in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

14 June 2020

Webinar

Regional Dialogue on Care and Rehabilitation of People with Substance Use Disorder in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

12 June 2020

Webinar

SUAB Webinar: Reflecting on Covid-19 and Substance Use

7 July 2020

Webinar

Presentation title: What will the ‘New Normal’ look like: Drug Services, Drug markets, Hotels for the Homeless and other observations about the lockdown.

In the first of the SUAB webinar series, Michael Linnell and Peter Furlong will reflect on the impact of covid-19 on those who use substances, and the services and practitioners who support them.

A zoom link will be emailed to attendees at 12pm on July 7th.

The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19

2 July 2020

Arizona

United States

The second of two presentations by Thom Browne Jr. (MA Criminal Justice, CEO of Colombo Plan) on the emerging and rapidly-changing properties of illicit drugs and their cutting agents that put substance users worldwide at high-risk for near- and long-term chronic health problems, overdose (fatal & non-fatal), and increased vulnerability to both the acquisition of viruses like COVID-19 and more severe complications from the virus.