September 8 Lessons from Iceland: How one country turned around a teen drinking crisis Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, ICSRA research director at her office in Reykjavik University Dr. Brian Goldman visited
August 14, 2018 Tarragona adoptes Planet Youth’s model Tarragona, a city south of Barcelona, Spain is adopting Planet Youth’s Icelandic model of prevention. Here is a brief message from Humberto
July 10, 2018 Youth in Iceland and the national team Huffington post in Mexico links the Youth in Iceland programme to Icelands good results in sports and their participation in
February 24 2018 How to keep children away from drugs Kelly Anthony, PhD from the School of Public Health and Health Systems in the University of Waterloo wrote about the
February 20, 2018 Icelandic approach to teen substance abuse may be tested in west of Ireland Pilot scheme would involve 7,000 young people in Galway, Roscommon and Mayo. Jon Sigfusson,
Februrary 15, 2018 Prevention needs to be key in fighting drug abuse Mark Pancer connected the dots in his Opinion in the Waterloo Region Record. Pancer wrote on the Fentanyl
Planet Youth won the Local Drug Demand Reduction Initiative Award 2019, handed out on
the International Conference on Drug Prevention which was held by ISSUP and UNODC
in Vienna Austria the first week of July 2019.
ISSUP, which is the International Society of Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Professionals, hands out awards in three categories.
One of them is The local initiative awards which celebrates projects and initiatives in the drug demand reduction field that have had an impact on the national level. Only one winner is selected for this award.
