February 14, 2018 Expert on reducing youth substance use coming to Waterloo Region Iceland community model changed culture to prevent youths from starting to use drugs, alcohol. Wrote Lisa Rutledge
November 19, 2017 BBC News: How one country persuaded teens to give up alcohol and drugs In 20 years Reykjavík went from being worst in Europe when it came to
March 23, 2017 Reducing teen substance use Wendy Wisbaum, and independent researcher, created an illustrated to the point abstract of the Planet Youth method, both in English and Spanish which
17 January, 2017 Mosaic: Iceland knows how to stop teen substance use but the rest of the worlds isn’t listening Photograph – Dave Imms for Mosaic In Iceland, teenage smoking,
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.
