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Highlights from the 2023 UNODC World Drug Report
Bi-Monthly Webinar: ISSUP Nigeria Knowledge Update Series (Fourteenth Session)
National Roundtable on a Completed Study on the Prevalence of New Psychoactive Substances
How can the illicit drug control field inform the tobacco endgame?
This webinar presented ways the illicit drug control field can inform the tobacco endgame.
The regulation of tobacco and substances that have traditionally been Illicit (e.g., cannabis) are heading in opposite directions with tobacco...
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS): Black market and policy of new psychoactive substances in the Asia region
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS): Synthetic Hallucinogens/ Synthetic Depressants
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS): Synthetic Stimulants/Synthetic Cannabinoids
White House Releases 2022 National Drug Control Strategy that Outlines Comprehensive Path Forward to Address Addiction and the Overdose Epidemic
Today, President Biden sent his Administration’s inaugural National Drug Control Strategy to Congress at a time when drug overdoses have taken a heartbreaking toll, claiming 106,854 lives in the most recent 12-month period. The Strategy del...
The Effects of COVID-19 on the Illegal Drug Supply
This webinar explored how regulations put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are inadvertently contributing to an increasingly toxic illegal drug supply and how this shift has both increased health harms and created policy...
The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19
The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19
UN Issues Warning after Myanmar Raids Net Record Breaking Fentanyl Seizures
The discovery of a large seizure of fentanyl in Myanmar indicates that the country may be a new transit route for the powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl.
Moroccan Smugglers Embark on Long New Route to Ship Drugs to Europe
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, many trafficking routes have been closed to Moroccan drug traffickers. This has led them to find new complex routes to traffic cannabis into Europe.
UNODC Global eLearning
UNODCs online eLearning courses deliver trainings to a community of over 50,000 Member State officials on international security threats such as transnational organized crime, terrorism, illicit drugs, trafficking in persons and...
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
A Serious Matter: Laughing Gas Prompts Review of UK’s Psychoactive Substances Act
Introduced in 2016, The Psychoactive Substances Act is designed to deal with the influx of new drugs often labelled ‘legal highs’.
The Act bans any substance that "by stimulating or depressing the person’s central nervous system… affects...
ISSUP at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Illuminating the Dark Web
The Economist reports that the drug trade is moving from the street to so-called online ‘cryptomarkets’, or secret virtual-shop-fronts.
Online markets currently facilitate a comparatively small amount of illegal drug sales. Nonetheless...
Revealed: The Global Cost of Smoking
Smoking and its related harms cost the world more than $1 trillion and claim the lives of around 6 million people each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Cancer Institute.
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