European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC): a handbook for decision-makers, opinion-makers and policy-makers in science-based prevention of substance use

Introduction

This handbook has been developed with the primary purpose of providing specific reference material for the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) training courses. It also serves to provide a more general introduction to prevention science and, in particular, to science-based interventions. The training curriculum has been developed by a European project entitled UPC-Adapt, which was co-funded by the European Commission. 

Notes on translations
Croatian: translated and produced by the Laboratory for Prevention Research (PrevLab), Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Behaviour Disorders, University of Zagreb
Dutch: translated and produced by HOGENT
Estonian: translated and produced by Tervise Arengu Instituut
Finnish: translated by Heikkilä Hanna ( EHYT Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention)
French: translated and produced by the EU4MD project
German: translated and produced by Finder Akademie
Latvian: translated and produced by the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia.
Lithuanian: translated and produced by the Lithuanian focal point
Norwegian: translated by Semantix and KORUS midt and produced by the Norwegian Directorate of Health 
Polish: translated and produced by Prevention Unit, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland
Portuguese: translated and produced by the EUDA
Spanish: translated by Carmen Orte, Joan Amer y Maria Antònia Gomila (Universitat de les Illes Balears), translation revised by Oihana Rementeria, produced by Ministerio de Sanidad: Delegación del Gobierno para el Plan Nacional sobre Drogas
Swedish: translated made by Semantix and verified by Public Health Agency of Sweden.

Notes on cultural adaptations
Brazil: cultural adaptation and translation by the Project to Support the Implementation of the National System for the Prevention of the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs (SINAP), a co-operation between UNODC Brazil, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Secretariat for Drug Policy and Asset Management under Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security of Brazil (SENAD/MJSP), in partnership with EUDA.
Georgia: cultural adaptation, translation producted by the Tomas Zabranski Institute of Addiction Studies, Ilia State University, within the framework of the EMCDDA4GE project
Ukraine: cultural adaptation, translation produced by the Geopolitical Alliance of Women with support from the EU4MD project

If you are considering translating the handbook, please follow the specific EUPC guidelines for translation and adaptation and the general EUDA guidelines for translation

Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements 
  • Abbreviations 
  • Foreword 
  • Use of this handbook 
  • Preface 
  • Introduction 
  • PART I: General concepts underpinning efective prevention 
    • Chapter 1: Epidemiology — understanding the nature and extent of substance use 
    • Chapter 2: Foundations of prevention science and evidence-based prevention interventions 
    • Chapter 3: Evidence-based prevention interventions and policies 
    • Chapter 4: Monitoring and evaluation 
  • PART II: Prevention approaches in different settings 
    • Chapter 5: Family-based prevention 
    • Chapter 6: School-based and workplace-based prevention 
    • Chapter 7: Environmental prevention 
    • Chapter 8: Media-based prevention 
    • Chapter 9: Community-based prevention 
    • Chapter 10: Advocacy for prevention 
  • Final refections 
  • References 
  • Annexes
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