Swiss Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems [ ISPA ]

National Institute for Alcohol and Drugs

National Council for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction | CONAPAD [Abbr.]

National Association for the Prevention of Alcoholism

International Council on Alcohol and Addictions [ ICAA | International Council on Alcohol and Alcoholism | International Temperance Union | International Union Against Alcoholism | International Bureau Against Alcoholism ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: From Awareness to Prevention

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Neonatal Abstinence Prevention Project

prevention of dependence (1) | prevention of addiction (2) | prevention (3)

To help the most vulnerable Various kinds of integrated measures aimed at risk groups are displayed: early intervention in children's and young people's problems; organising morning and afternoon activities for schoolchildren; youth participation project; supporting the integration of immigrants; implementing the national alcohol program; addressing the drug problem; programs for reducing homelessness; project to combat violence against women and prostitution and trafficking of human beings under the Government's equality program; voluntary debt adjustment program; crime prevention ...[+++]; crime conciliation; 'Towards a crime-free life together'-project; a number of projects of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church for the prevention of exclusion; and determination of the focus for NGOs' measures.

For example, Health Canada is funding the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse to develop a national youth prevention strategy — an initiative that mobilizes prevention efforts, informs drug-prevention policy and practices, and builds relationships between not-for-profit organizations, the private sector and all levels of government to maximize impact.

Public heath services include well-baby clinics provided by community health nurses that offer immunization, child development assessment, health education, and counselling for caregivers; prevention and health promotion programs such as alcohol, tobacco, and other substance abuse programs, diabetes prevention, nutrition advice, etc.; public education and awareness campaigns such as the recent Health Canada campaign on sudden infant death syndrome.

(3) To identify, disseminate and promote the up-take of validated best practices for cost-effective prevention measures by addressing the key risk factors, namely smoking, harmful use of alcohol, an unhealthy diet, a sedentary lifestyle and obesity, drug use and environmental factors, as well as communicable diseases, with a focus on the cross border dimension, and operating in a gender-sensitive framework, in order to prevent diseases and promote good health, and to empower EU citizens and patients by enhancing health literacy to ach ...[+++]ieve better and safer health outcomes.