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Resources for policy makers
The SAFER technical package
The technical package for the SAFER initiative focuses on five key alcohol policy interventions that are based on accumulated evidence of their impact...
The SAFER brochure
WHO, in collaboration with international partners, launched the SAFER initiative towards a world free from alcohol related harm in 2018. This brochure...
Alcohol taxation and pricing policies have several public health, economic and social benefits as they have the capacity to: 1) generate tax revenue, 2)...
Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms
Provides concise definitions for some 230 terms frequently used by clinicians, researchers, teachers, and others working in the field of substance abuse....
Resources for advocacy
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Resources for the health system
mhGAP Intervention Guide - Version 2.0
Guidelines for identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders in pregnancy
These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which...
Substance use problems can arise as a result of acute intoxication, regular use or dependence - and from the way in which substances are used. This guide...
This manual is a companion to ‘The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST): manual for use in primary care’. The...
The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was developed for the World Health Organization (WHO) by an international group...
AUDIT : the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test : guidelines for use in primary health care
This manual introduces the AUDIT, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and describes how to use it to identify persons with hazardous and harmful...
This manual is written to help primary health care workers - physicians, nurses, community health workers, and others - to deal with persons whose alcohol...
Resources for monitoring and surveillance
Global status report on alcohol and health 2018
Global status report on alcohol and health 2018: executive summary
Report on the meeting on indicators for monitoring alcohol, drugs and other psychoactive substance use, substance-attributable harm and societal responses, Valencia, Spain, 19-21 October 2009
International Guide for Monitoring Alcohol Consumption and Related Harm
Research publications
Harm to others from drinking: patterns in nine societies
Project on Identification and Management of Alcohol-Related Problems. Report on Phase II: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Brief Interventions in Primary Health Care
Alcohol and injuries: Emergency department studies in an international perspective
Alcohol and injury in emergency departments : summary of the report from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries
Alcohol, Gender and Drinking Problems: Perspectives from Low and Middle Income Countries
Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk Behaviour: A Cross-Cultural Study in Eight Countries
Alcohol and Public Health in 8 Developing Countries
Expert Committee Reports
Health promotion in the workplace: alcohol and drug abuse, report of a WHO expert committee
Outlines a range of health promotion initiatives that can be used at the workplace to combat alcohol- and drug-related problems. Intended to provide both...