The 2021-2026 Global AIDS Strategy has bold and critical new targets on realizing human rights, reducing stigma, discrimination and violence and removing harmful punitive laws as a pathway to ending inequalities and ultimately ending AIDS.
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A new publication by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the importance of integrating HIV and mental health services and other interventions, including linkages to social protection services, for people living with...
Sharing drug injecting equipment increases the risk of transmitting and acquiring blood-borne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. While hepatitis C is the most prevalent blood-borne viral infection among people who inject drugs...
Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the focus on HIV prevention, treatment and care among people who use drugs has concentrated on the needs of people who inject drugs, and mainly on those who inject opioids. However, data show that...
UNODC has put together summaries of the work that they are doing relating to Drug use and HIV.
Here, you can find out more about the work that UNODC has done relating to
There is increasing interest and evidence for the use of cannabinoid medications in the treatment of cannabis use disorder, but little examination of the correlates of successful treatment. This paper is a secondary...
Novel public health interventions are needed to address the toxic drug supply and meet the needs of people who use drugs amidst the overdose crisis. Safer supply – low-barrier distribution of pharmaceutical grade substances –...
There is a higher prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) among justice-involved children (JIC). It is critical to ensure that JIC who report current use are referred for SUD assessment and potentially life-saving treatment...
COVID-19 dramatically limited the scale and scope of local health department (LHD) work, redirecting resources to the response. However, the need for essential public health services—including substance use prevention—was not...
Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental...
The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU) is a pan-Canadian network of community partners co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA). The network has sites in British Columbia, Manitoba...
In the framework of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, several activities took place, including the publication of the World Drug Report elaborated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
T...
This miniguide is one of a larger set, which together comprise Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide.
It provides an overview of the most important aspects to consider when planning or delivering health and...
A new systematic review and meta-analysis has found that alcohol-targeted brief interventions (short, structured, one-to-one conversations about drinking designed to motivate changes in risky behaviour) delivered in doctors’ offices and...
Among European countries, France is particularly concerned by adolescent tobacco smoking, especially in disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds (SES). We measured the respective contributions of parental...
The United Nations Synthetic Drug Toolkit supports the international community in implementing comprehensive response measures to address the synthetic drug problem.
The toolkit was developed in response to Commission on Narcotic...
Nukus, Republic of Karakalpakstan. 7 December 2022. The Regional Office in Central Asia of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC ROCA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Karakalpakstan...
The launch of the new master's degree "Problematic Consumption of Psychoactive Substances from a Social and Health Perspective" was held.
Miriam Carrillo, Director of Prevention at Centros de Integración Juvenil, A.C. (CIJ, acr...
A video in Kiswahili with subtitles in English on the drug prevention and treatment project that the Casa Rosetta Association carried out in the Tanga Region (Tanzania) in the last 2 years as an implementing partner of UNODC.
UPDATE IN DEPENDENCIES - SICILY – 2022
CHANGES IN LIFESTYLES, TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CLINIC,
NEW CONFIGURATIONS OF NEEDS, EVOLUTION OF MODELS
ORGANIZATIONAL AND TREATMENT
Conference Room NH HOTEL PALERMO
The change in consumption styles and...
