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New Guidance on Alcohol
"Drink Less, Live More" is the message of a new advertising campaign launched by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) to promote Canada's Guidance on Alcohol and Health. Starting in early October, the digital campaign...
Synthetic Opioids: Navigating a Changing Landscape in the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Thailand: Moving from punishment to treatment of people who use drugs
New rule in New Zealand requires warning on all packaged alcohol
A new rule will require all packaged alcohol being sold to have warnings on the label about the harm it can cause to unborn babies.
The food safety agency says the move is supported by advice from doctors, midwives, the Ministry of...
Healing Families, Helping Systems: A Trauma-Informed Practice Guide for Working with Children, Youth & Families
This guide is concerned with advancing understanding and action about trauma-informed approaches that support program and service delivery for/with children, youth, and families. A trauma-informed approach is a system-wide approach that is...
Support. Don't Punish International Day of Action
A global advocacy campaign calling for drug policies based on health and human rights.
Support. Don’t Punish is a global grassroots-centred initiative in support of harm reduction and drug policies that prioritise public health and human...
How alcohol consumption contributes to chronic pain
A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and hypersensitivity.
Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different molecular mechanisms -- one driven by...
Gli Osservatori Nazionali della Droga dei paesi dell'America Latina e dei Caraibi si incontrano a Lisbona per la "Settimana COPOLAD"
Dal 22 al 26 maggio si riuniranno a Lisbona gli Osservatori Nazionali della Droga (NDO) dei paesi dell'America Latina e dei Caraibi (ALC) per una settimana di attività nell'ambito del programma COPOLAD III .
Il tema generale dell...
421 milioni di sterline per aumentare il trattamento di droga e alcol in tutta l'Inghilterra
È stato annunciato che le autorità locali di tutta l'Inghilterra beneficeranno di un ulteriore finanziamento governativo di 421 milioni di sterline fino al 2025 per migliorare il trattamento e il recupero dalla dipendenza da droghe e alcol...
Call for Speakers: side event at the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum
The VNGOC together with NYNGOC and the UNODC Civil Society Unit is organizing an online side event in the margins of the 2023 ECOSOC Partnership Forum on 31 January 2023 at 8.30 AM. The event is titled: The central role of civil society in...
Rispondere alle malattie infettive correlate agli stupefacenti: mini guida dell'OEDT
La condivisione di apparecchiature per l'iniezione di droghe aumenta il rischio di trasmissione e acquisizione di infezioni trasmissibili per via ematica, come l'HIV e l'epatite B e C. Sebbene l'epatite C sia l'infezione virale...
Registration opens for European Drugs Winter and Summer Schools 2023
The EMCDDA and the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) are delighted to open registration today for two upcoming joint events in 2023: the European Drugs Winter School (EDWS) and the European Drugs Summer School (EDSS) (1)(2).
EDW...
Kenya to include smoking cessation drugs as essential medicines
The Ministry of Health has been advised to add two non-nicotine drugs to Kenya’s Essential Medicines List, to help smokers quit tobacco and nicotine addiction.
The World Health Organization said the two drugs bring “a powerful shift in...
Seminario sul ruolo degli studenti contro la droga
Seminario sul ruolo degli studenti contro la droga
GC University Lahore ha organizzato un programma speciale sulla droga, il Maggiore Generale Ghulam Shabbir Narejo DG ANF Pakistan è stato ospite principale e Brig Rashid Minhas RD ANF Punjab...
WHA adopts Global Alcohol Action Plan
Carceri e droga: risposte sanitarie e sociali
Questa miniguida fa parte di un insieme più ampio, che insieme comprendono le risposte sanitarie e sociali ai problemi della droga: una guida europea. Fornisce una panoramica di cosa considerare quando si pianificano o si forniscono...
Schools and drugs: health and social responses
Kenya introduces tax on alcohol advertising
A 15% tax on fees charged by television stations, print media, billboards, and radio stations for advertisements of alcohol products, gaming, and gambling has been proposed in the 2022/23 budget.
Here you can read the news article...
Join us at the COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS this week!
Dear friends and colleagues,
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022.
Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good...
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