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The South Sumatra province has been ranked as the second largest province with people who use drugs, with a prevalence of 5%  which approximately corresponds to 326,694 people, and methamphetamine is still the most popular drug of choice in...

Meeting with Force Commander Anti Narcotics Force Punjab

Syed Zulfiqar Hussain Consultant, Anti Drugs/Narcotics Campaign met with Brig. Rashid Minhas Force Commander ANF Punjab along with 20 members delegation of Lahore Iqra Lions Club...

Inter-Provincial Conference organized by ET&Narcotics Control.

Syed Zulfiqar Hussain Consultant Anti Drugs/Narcotics Campaign participated in first Inter-Provincial Conference - Areas of collective cooperation to fight the menace of...

Nansana Division Coalition Against Drugs had the chance to visit one of the Health Centers in the Division called Nabweru Health Centre III and was able to interact with the in Charge Doctor and other medical workers on drug challenges and...

UNODC Pakistan, together with support from the Ministry of Narcotics, the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and generous funding support from the US...

The torching of schools by students has become a regular occurrence in Kenya over the past two decades. This has resulted to destruction of property, disruption of the school calendar and unfortunately loss of innocent lives. Last year...

In many parts of the world, information on illicit drug use is non-existent or extremely limited. Where data do exist, they are rarely collected in a harmonized manner and, as a result, the comparability of information across countries is...

In many parts of the world, information on illicit drug use is non-existent or extremely limited. Where data exist, they are rarely collected in a harmonised manner and, therefore, the comparability of information between countries is...

Since December 2014, methadone maintenance treatment is available at the Centre de Prise en Charge Intégrée des Addictions à Dakar, Senegal (CEPIAD). This center, located within the Centre Hospitalier National Universitaire de Fann, allows...

As part of efforts to improve the quality of and access to evidence-based treatment and care services for people with drug use disorders and in support of the recent official launch of the methadone pilot programme in Côte d'Ivoire, UNODC...

Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology organized a Seminar on Myths and Facts related to Drugs. In this program, I had an opportunity to conduct a session as a keynote on " Role of Youth in Substance Abuse...

13-14 December 2021 UNODC/WHO Regional Workshop on the International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders (DUD) was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in hybrid format. 25 policymakers from Central Asia and high-level officials from...

The UNODC Programme Office for Indonesia (POIDN), in collaboration with Indonesian Association of Addiction Counsellor (IKAI), initiated to create an application called “RehabNet”. The idea to develop this application came after seeing the...

Indonesia has been promoting science-based and ethical services to improve the health, well-being and recovery of affected individuals with drug use disorders and increase public safety to all drug use disorders treatment providers both at...

La Société internationale des professionnels du traitement de l’addiction aux substances psychoactives (en anglais International Society of Substance Use Professionals, ISSUP) dispose désormais d’une branche au Togo. L’ISSUP-Togo a été...

Chaired by Livia Edegger, Deputy Director of the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP), the specialist in this panel spoke about the importance of creating and strengthening the workface in drug demand reduction...