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January 16, 2020

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Avez vous entre 15 et 25 ans?

Nous souhaitons bienvenue aux jeunes entre 15 et 25 ans et qui ont de l'expérience avec des opioïdes à un sommet où vous avez la chance de partager vos expériences et à explorer l'état actuel des interventions et des traitements destinés aux jeunes à risque de dépendance aux opioïdes! Pour encore plus d'information, contactez Stephanie A. Nairn à 514-265-6360 ou Marion Audet à 514-881-5551.

January 14, 2020

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Intéressé à participer à la recherche?

Dans le cadre d’une étude du laboratoire de recherche « LabVenture » du Dre Patricia Conrod portant sur l’intervention auprès d’adolescents avec des expériences perceptives inhabituelles qui consomment du cannabis, nous souhaitons solliciter votre participation pour la passation de quelques questionnaires en ligne. Ceux-ci nous permettront de valider notre traduction française d’un questionnaire qui étudie les biais cognitifs, c’est-à-dire, les tendances privilégiées de votre cognition dans le traitement de l’information. Toutes les données recueillies seront anonymes. Aucune des informations obtenues ne sera utilisée dans un autre but que celui de l’étude ici présente. Cette étude a été approuvé par le Comité éthique du CHU Sainte Justine à Montréal. La passation de ce questionnaire prend une dizaine de minutes et est volontaire. Pour plus d’information, vous pouvez contacter les chercheurs par courriel à audrey.livet@recherche.ste-justine.qc.ca ou par téléphone au (+1)514-345-4931 poste 7657.

January 9, 2020

[Event]

Emerging Health Threat (EHT) Youth Engagement - Youth Summit 2020

During the summit, you will participate in breakout group discussions and attend presentations by your peers and experts on evidence about interventions and treatments. You will also be invited to participate in audio-graphic/visualization activities about your perceptions and ideas on making interventions for new users to be more responsive and adequate for youth-needs.

November 26, 2019

[Event]

30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

This year is extra special, marking the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. A time to celebrate and a time to demand action for child rights. What will you do?

November 18, 2019

[What We're Reading]

Instagram is starting to cut off its most addictive feature, and it could have huge consequences for teens' mental health

Instagram announced it was "running a test" on some users, a couple months after rumors first emerged that the photo-sharing platform was testing such a feature. Hiding the number of likes is designed to put "focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes they get"

November 15, 2019

[What We're Reading]

Preventing Substance Use Among Indigenous Adolescents in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: a Systematic Review of the Literature

This systematic review assessed the current evidence base of substance use prevention programs for Indigenous adolescents in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

October 1, 2019

[Publication]

Australian Study Shows Effectiveness of PreVenture Program in Reducing Mental Health Symptoms

This study examined the secondary mental health outcomes of two contrasting alcohol prevention approaches, whereby one intervention targets common underlying personality risk for alcohol use and mental health problems (Preventure) and the other targets alcohol- and drug-related behaviours and cognitions (Climate Schools).

September 27, 2019

[Publication]

CUSP Trial Awarded $1.7 million CIHR Grant

The Canadian Institute of Health Research has awarded the Canadian Underage Substance use Prevention (CUSP) Trial, led by Dr. Patricia Conrod at CHU Sainte-Justine, funding for five years

September 1, 2017

[Event]

PreVenture Program Featured at International Meeting on Suicide Prevention

Preventure Program featured at international meeting on suicide prevention hosted by U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on International Suicide Prevention Day.

January 10, 2019

[Event]

Youth Vaping Is Now An ‘Epidemic'

U.S. Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams issued an advisory today stressing the importance of protecting children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction and associated health risks by immediately addressing the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use.

December 18, 2018

[What We're Reading]

Alocholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

The Effect of Contextual Risk Factors on the Effectiveness of Brief Personality-Targeted Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol Use and Misuse: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

April 8, 2019

[Publication]

A Review of Personality-Targeted Interventions for Prevention of Substance Misuse and Related Harm in Community Samples of Adolescents

Several school-based prevention programmes have been developed and used to prevent, delay, or reduce substance misuse, and related problems among community samples of adolescents.

January 22, 2019

[Publication]

The Promises of Targeted Inteventions

A Review to Identify Gaps in Research and Service Delivery for Substance Use Prevention among At-risk Adolescents Involved in Child Welfare System

January 1, 2017

[What We're Reading]

ProVenture awarded $726,000 CIHR Grant

The Canadian Institute of Health Research has awarded the ProVenture project led by Dr Stéphane Potvin and Dr Patricia Conrod funding for five years. This longitudinal neuroimaging study aims to investigate the effects of cannabis on the development of psychosis in youth.

March 1, 2016

[Event]

Marijuana can increase a teenager's risk of psychosis

Going from an occasional user of marijuana to a weekly or daily user increases an adolescent’s risk of having recurrent psychotic-like experiences by 159%, according to a new Canadian study published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The study also reports effects of marijuana use on cognitive development and shows that the link between marijuana use and psychotic-like experiences is best explained by emerging symptoms of depression.

July 5, 2017

[What We're Reading]

Smoking strong pot daily raises psychosis risk

Smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by nearly five times, according to the biggest-ever study to examine the impact of pot on psychotic disorder rates.

March 20, 2019

[What We're Reading]

Donation of 2M $ offered by RBC Royal Bank

Thanks to an exemplary two million dollar donation by the RBC Royal Bank, CHU Sainte-Justine can now lay the foundation for its mental illness detection program in schools. Based on a model that has gotten good results in a number of countries, this innovative program will be rolled out in 30 high schools in Greater Montréal.

October 14, 2015

[Event]

The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting

The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial is a novel research study design that is increasingly being used in the evaluation of service delivery type interventions. The design involves random and sequential crossover of clusters from control to intervention until all clusters are exposed.

February 6, 2015

[What We're Reading]

Effects of delaying binge drinking on adolescent brain development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study

Onset of alcohol use by 14 relative to 21 years of age strongly predicts elevated risk for severe alcohol use problems, with 27% versus 4% of individuals exhibiting alcohol dependence within 10 years of onset.

December 13, 2016

[What We're Reading]

The influence of affective and cognitive attitudes on adolescents’ intention to engage in binge drinking

Previous work has revealed that interventions aiming to reduce adolescent binge drinking commonly focus on cognitive attitudes, but are insufficiently effective in changing binge-drinking intentions. The focus on these cognitive attitudes might be the reason for this insufficient success.

April 25, 2018

[What We're Reading]

Vocational Community College Students’ Conversations about Binge Drinking

The large amount of vocational community college students that continue showing binge-drinking behavior might be an indication that interventions targeting this behavior have not been hugely successful. It might be that these interventions targeted beliefs that are less or not related with vocational community college binge-drinking behavior.

December 7, 2018

[What We're Reading]

CRISM Emerging Health Threat (EHT) Implementation Science Program on Opioid Interventions and Services

Following an international review, CIHR has approved a proposal submitted by the CRISM network for a 5-year directed grant addressing the opioid emergency

[Event]

Emerging Health Threat study will host a cross-Canada Youth Summit

In the months to come, the Emerging Health Threat study will host a cross-Canada Youth Summit to present the current state of interventions and treatments for youth at-risk of opioid addiction.

[Event]

The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioid

The opioid misuse and overdose crisis touches everyone in the United States. In 2016, we lost more than 115 Americans to opioid overdose deaths each day, devastating families and communities across the country. Preliminary numbers in 2017 show that this number continues to increase with more than 131 opioid overdose deaths each day.

October 1, 2018

[What We're Reading]

ADORe 1 million € NEURON Grant

Project aim. We will i) describe neural and cognitive functions implicated in adolescent onset depressive symptoms, and their involvement in transition to major depression and in treatment response, allowing to ii) provide novel cognitive and/or neural intervention components for at-risk adolescents, using a targeted and neurodevelopmentally-informed framework.

[Event]

Cannabis use and psychotic‐like experiences trajectories during early adolescence: the coevolution and potential mediators

The authors sought to model the different trajectories of psychotic‐like experiences (PLE) during adolescence and to examine whether the longitudinal relationship between cannabis use and PLE is mediated by changes in cognitive development and/or change in anxiety or depression symptoms.

July 5, 2017

[What We're Reading]

Adolescent depression and reduced cognitive performance

Recent studies have shown that major depression is associated with a series of neuropsychological deficits, such as attention, memory, decision-making and behavioural inhibition deficits in adults and seniors.

March 6, 2018

[What We're Reading]

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PreVenture Facilitator Training - March 26 & 27, 2020 @ CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, Canada

Avez vous entre 15 et 25 ans?

Intéressé à participer à la recherche?

Emerging Health Threat (EHT) Youth Engagement - Youth Summit 2020

30th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Instagram is starting to cut off its most addictive feature, and it could have huge consequences for teens' mental health

Preventing Substance Use Among Indigenous Adolescents in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: a Systematic Review of the Literature

Australian Study Shows Effectiveness of PreVenture Program in Reducing Mental Health Symptoms

CUSP Trial Awarded $1.7 million CIHR Grant

PreVenture Program Featured at International Meeting on Suicide Prevention

Youth Vaping Is Now An ‘Epidemic'

Alocholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

A Review of Personality-Targeted Interventions for Prevention of Substance Misuse and Related Harm in Community Samples of Adolescents

The Promises of Targeted Inteventions

ProVenture awarded $726,000 CIHR Grant

Marijuana can increase a teenager's risk of psychosis

Smoking strong pot daily raises psychosis risk

Donation of 2M $ offered by RBC Royal Bank

The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting

Effects of delaying binge drinking on adolescent brain development: a longitudinal neuroimaging study

The influence of affective and cognitive attitudes on adolescents’ intention to engage in binge drinking

Vocational Community College Students’ Conversations about Binge Drinking

CRISM Emerging Health Threat (EHT) Implementation Science Program on Opioid Interventions and Services

Emerging Health Threat study will host a cross-Canada Youth Summit

The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioid

ADORe 1 million € NEURON Grant

Cannabis use and psychotic‐like experiences trajectories during early adolescence: the coevolution and potential mediators

Adolescent depression and reduced cognitive performance

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