Research has shown there to be a link between heavy drinking in youth and increased risky behaviour and reduced educational effectiveness.
In order to understand the factors that are associated with binge drinking in adolescence and young...
Migrant communities and the COVID-19 response in sub-Saharan Africa
Ikenna Daniel Molobe1,&, Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya1,2, Brenda Chukwufunanya Isikekpei3, Flavio Francisco Marsiglia4
1Non-Communicable Disease Research Group...
The Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC) and UNODC's civil society team organized a series of webinars to present and discuss the 2020 World Drug Report. The series includes webinars in English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The French...
Globally, incarceration is understood to impoverish the wellbeing of prisoners, but evidence for its impact on cognitive performance is less popular. As most evidence on the criminal justice system has come from advanced western...
Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use can place a heavy burden on individuals, families and society. The health,
social and economic effects are diverse and substantial, and include disease and injury, mental health
conditions...
UNODC Mentor in collaboration with colleagues from Coordination and Analysis Unit of the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia conducted a rapid assessment in four countries of Central Asia. The main goal of the brief research was to study...
UNODC Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Section (PTRS), in collaboration with the WHO, International Experts from Australia and Italy, the Colombo Plan, UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (ROSEAP) and field...
Global drug consumption increases, while COVID-19 impacts markets, according to the World Drug Report 2020, released on June 25, 2020 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Report shows that around 269 million people...
The VNGOC together with the UNODC Civil Society Team will be holding a series of webinars to present and discuss the World Drug Report 2020, which was launched on 26th June.
We are looking for civil society speakers wishing to present at...
