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The activities of authorised agencies such as police, customs, border services, and investigative bodies to enforce drug control laws and address criminal activities related to the production, trafficking, and distribution of illicit substances. These activities may include investigations, intelligence gathering, interdiction, and collaboration with national and international partners to disrupt organised crime networks. Law enforcement plays an important role in protecting public safety and maintaining the rule of law, and is most effective when coordinated with broader public health, prevention, treatment, and recovery efforts as part of a balanced and comprehensive response to substance use.
Misurare il miglioramento della conoscenza delle riforme della politica sulle droghe a seguito di un programma di educazione della polizia a Tijuana, in Messico
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La "riforma narcomenudeo" messicana del 2009 ha depenalizzato piccole quantità di droghe, spostando alcune forze dell'ordine sulla droga negli stati e imponendo la diversione del trattamento della droga invece dell...
The Opioid Epidemic: From Evidence to Impact
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
While prescription opioids serve an invaluable role for the treatment of cancer pain and pain at the end of life, their overuse for acute and chronic non-cancer pain as well as the increasing availability of heroin and...
8 passi per ridurre al minimo la crisi degli oppioidi negli Stati Uniti
Gli attuali livelli di dipendenza da oppioidi negli Stati Uniti sono così allarmanti che nel luglio 2017 la Commissione presidenziale per la lotta alla tossicodipendenza e alla crisi degli oppioidi ha urgentemente suggerito che il...
Common Marijuana-Related Cases Encountered in the Emergency Department
In 2000, Colorado voters decriminalized marijuana for medical use; however, because marijuana use remained illegal under federal law, the number of users was low. In 2009, President Obama instructed federal officials not to enforce...
Caratteristiche delle persone che si iniettano droghe e che assistono a overdose da oppioidi in Vietnam
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Le persone che usano oppioidi hanno un alto rischio di sovradosaggio e mortalità associata. In Vietnam, si sa poco sulle caratteristiche di questa popolazione e sulle persone che sono testimoni di quelle overdose. Un...
Barriers to Retention in Methadone Maintenance Therapy among People who Inject Drugs in Bangkok
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Background
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and...
Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports
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What is already known about this topic?
Opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been increasing since 1999, initially driven by prescription opioid misuse and more recently by heroin and other illicit opioid use.
What is...
Changing Patterns of Substance Misuse in Adult Prisons and Service Responses
Inspection findings were supplemented by fieldwork in eight prisons in 2014 to generate an overall picture of drug use and responses to it in prisons in England and Wales. In the face of rapidly changing and varied drug use patterns, policy...
The Effectiveness of Illegal Drug Interventions
This Health Research Board document reviews evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in the areas of prevention, harm reduction and long-term recovery from addiction to illegal drugs.
It asks which interventions are effective for:
- ...
How to Tackle America’s Opioid Crisis?
Much the result of a poor understanding of how to treat chronic pain, the United States has in recent years been rocked by an unprecedented drug crisis: The opioid epidemic.
Opioids include drugs derived from opium, such as heroin, as...
Il fentanil non è solo mortale per i tossicodipendenti: la polizia si sta ammalando
Questo articolo descrive come il fentanil sta influenzando gli agenti di polizia e gli esaminatori medici in tutti gli Stati Uniti mentre cercano di indagare. Leggi tutto...
N.E. Fentanyl Deaths 'Like No Other Epidemic' - Boston Globe
Mexican cartels are delivering vast quantities of the inexpensive and powerful synthetic drug fentanyl to New England, causing the highest rate of fentanyl-related deaths in the nation while creating a plague that the area’s top drug...
Alcohol Treatment Matrix Row 5: Safeguarding the Community
Time to consolidate the lessons of the course’s last five instalments about treatment intended to safeguard the community, the final row of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. A common theme is the contradiction between treatment centred on the...
ISSUP at the 22nd Annual National Institute on Drug Abuse International Forum
The 22nd Annual National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Forum was held in Montreal, Canada from June 16th – 19th, 2017.
Long Lasting Effects of Chronic Heavy Cannabis Abuse
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Background and Objectives
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent of short-term memory impairment and schizophrenia-like symptoms in heavy and systematic cannabis users and the association between the severity of...
Abuso e dipendenza da droghe: linee guida del Regno Unito sulla gestione clinica
Spesso chiamato Orange Book, questa è una guida per i medici che trattano persone con problemi di droga.
Questa versione 2017 offre nuove linee guida su:
- Trattamento in carcere
- Nuove sostanze psicoattive e droghe club
- co-morbidità...
SAMHSA Toolkit per la prevenzione dell'overdose da oppioidi
Questo toolkit offre strategie agli operatori sanitari, alle comunità e ai governi locali per lo sviluppo di pratiche e politiche per aiutare a prevenire overdose e decessi correlati agli oppioidi. Accedi ai rapporti per i membri della...
Effectiveness Bank Matrix Bite: Treatment Systems to Reduce Alcohol-Related Crime and Safeguard the Community
Final cell of the Alcohol Treatment Matrix. The theme is set by an Australian review which argues that despite radically different starting points, criminal justice and treatment systems must collaborate to deliver treatment. We invite you...
Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction Program Development, 2nd ed.
The Field Guide to Drug Demand Reduction (DDR) Development is an annual publication by the U.S. Department of State primarily for its Embassy personnel abroad to guide in the development of substance use prevention and treatment programming...
Per chi funziona il trattamento farmacologico basato sulla prigione? Risultati di un esperimento randomizzato
Per la prima volta in un contesto carcerario, uno studio randomizzato ha rigorosamente confrontato il trattamento intensivo della comunità terapeutica residenziale con la consulenza ambulatoriale. Confondendo le aspettative, la prigione...