supply reduction

UNODC and CILAD Advance Synthetic Drug Strategy in Côte d’Ivoire

West Africa is witnessing a rapid shift from plant-based drugs to synthetic substances, including the non-medical use of tramadol, as well as fentanyl and emerging drug mixtures that remain difficult to identify and analyse. This evolving landscape is having a particularly significant impact on young people.

ISSUP Côte d’Ivoire Participates in First Regional Consultation on Synthetic Drugs in West Africa

ISSUP Côte d’Ivoire, hosted by the Comité Interministériel de Lutte Anti-Drogue (CILAD) participated in the First Regional Consultation Meeting on Synthetic Drugs in West Africa, held at the Vienna International Centre from 27–28 November 2025.

The ICD, a government agency under the supervision of the Ministry in charge of Security, serves as the national coordinator for drug use reduction and is the institutional host of ISSUP Côte d’Ivoire.

White House Releases 2022 National Drug Control Strategy that Outlines Comprehensive Path Forward to Address Addiction and the Overdose Epidemic

News

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...

INL Webinar Week on Public-Private Partnerships to Counter Drug Challenges: October 25-29, 2021

25 October 2021

Washington, D.C.

United States

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) presents the third annual event on partnering with the private sector to address the world drug problem.

Journée Internationale contre l’abus et le trafic illicite des drogues: Des substances prohibées et stupéfiants incinérés.

Dans le cadre de la célébration de la 28ème journée internationale contre l’abus et le trafic illicite des drogues, le Ministre de la Sécurité et de la Protection Civile, le Gal de Brigade, El-Hadj Damehame YARK, a procédé le 28 juin dernier, à Lomé, à l’incinération des drogues et produits illicites saisis. Cette opération s’est déroulée en présence des membres des services techniques partenaires de lutte contre l’usage et la commercialisation des drogues et des stupéfiants, des organisations internationales et de la société civile.

The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19

2 July 2020

Arizona

United States

The second of two presentations by Thom Browne Jr. (MA Criminal Justice, CEO of Colombo Plan) on the emerging and rapidly-changing properties of illicit drugs and their cutting agents that put substance users worldwide at high-risk for near- and long-term chronic health problems, overdose (fatal & non-fatal), and increased vulnerability to both the acquisition of viruses like COVID-19 and more severe complications from the virus.

The Rapidly Changing Composition of the World's Drug Supply and Its Effects on High-Risk for COVID-19

26 June 2020

Arizona

United States

The first of two presentations by Thom Browne Jr. (MA Criminal Justice, CEO of Colombo Plan) on the emerging and rapidly-changing properties of illicit drugs and their cutting agents that put substance users worldwide at high-risk for near- and long-term chronic health problems, overdose (fatal & non-fatal), and increased vulnerability to both the acquisition of viruses like COVID-19 and more severe complications from the virus.

60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

13 March 2017

Vienna

Austria

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the central policy-making body of the UN drug control system. The CND meets annually when it considers and adopts a range of decisions and resolutions. The 60th session of the CND will take place in Vienna from the 13th to the 17th of March, 2017.