The article describes the relevance and necessity of primary prevention psychoactive substances use among schoolchildren, considers need for scientific substantiation evidence effectiveness programs in different countries. A short literature review experience Belarus, Russia non-CIS countries has been made. elaborated, tested implemented practice curriculum optional classes aimed at formation s...

Background A growing number of researchers are trying to provide explanations for continuity and change in drug policy different contexts. Such research predominantly falls the pluralist realm public where various actors compete have their proposals accepted.Method Using a critical framework called Policy Constellations (PC), developed by Stevens Zampini, this paper attempts explain reactions B...

New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are drugs that lay in a grey area of legislation, since they are not internationally and officially banned, possibly leading to their not prosecutable trade. The exacerbation of the phenomenon is that NPS can be easily sold and bought online. Here, we consider large corpora of textual posts, published on online forums specialized on drug discussions, plus a sma...