2010 Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the UN international drug control conventions, has just released its...
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Managing concurrent and repeated risks: Explaining reductions in opium...
Household concerns about food security because of the high wheat prices were key in driving down poppy cultivation between 2008 and 2009. The coercive power of the Afghan State and international...
View ArticleUNODC Report - The global Afghan opium trade: A threat assessment
This report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) covers worldwide flows of Afghan opiates, as well as trafficking in precursor chemicals used to turn opium into heroin. By providing...
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Fall in opiate and crack use in England
The number of people in England who use heroin and crack has fallen, according to independent research published by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA).Experts from the Centre for...
View ArticleAfghan heroin traffickers targeting Tanzania, East Africa
The Citizen (Dar es Salaam), 28 August 2011East African countries, particularly Tanzania, have been receiving more Afghan heroin flows, as the continent of Africa at large emerges as a conductive drugs...
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Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011 - Summary Findings
Opium poppy-crop cultivation in Afghanistan reached 131,000 hectares in 2011, 7 per cent higher than in 2010, due to insecurity and high prices, said the summary findings of the 2011 Afghan Opium...
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Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction: Experiences from Myanmar,...
In its Briefing, the Transnational Institute discusses the problematic use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) in East and Southeast Asia. It has become a significant health and social problem, in...
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Buprenorphine/Naloxone for opioid dependence: Clinical practice guideline
A new clinical guideline released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will help health care practitioners to provide buprenorphine (combined with naloxone), the most effective medication...
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EMCDDA Annual Report 2011: The State of the Drugs Problem in Europe
By Harm Reduction InternationalOver the last decade, gains have been made within the EU in addressing HIV infection among injecting drug users — these include a greater availability of prevention,...
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EMCDDA mortality related to drug use in Europe: Public health implications 2011
This EMCDDA Selected issue focuses on mortality among drug users due to all causes, of which drug-induced deaths (overdoses) is only a component, albeit the one most well-documented.The publication...
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Substance misuse detainees in police custody guidelines for clinical management
Dependent individuals should always be cared for and treated without being stigmatised, whatever their particular circumstances. For those individuals who become casualties of substance misuse and are...
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Count the Costs campaign: Deforestation and pollution
One of the frequently overlooked costs of the war on drugs is its negative impact on the environment – mainly resulting from aerial spraying of drug crops in ecologically sensitive environments such as...
View ArticleExtent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the...
The Lancet, (January 2012), 379(9810): 55-70 [Restricted View]This paper summarises data for the prevalence, correlates, and probable adverse health consequences of problem use of amphetamines,...
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The Soviet doctor and the treatment of drug addiction: "A difficult and most...
This paper reviews the development of early Soviet drug treatment approaches by focusing on the struggle for disciplinary power between leading social and mental hygienists and clinical psychiatrists...
View ArticleMyanmar declares war on opium
Reuters, 20 February 2012, by Andrew MarshallIn Myanmar's new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker.Its two-stroke engine spins a metal blade, which is more commonly...
View ArticleFarmers perspectives on the war on drugs - session at Harm Reduction 2010...
In a significant omission, production and supply-side issues have not been a traditional focus of the International Harm Reduction Conference. This session at this year's conference in Liverpool is...
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Awareness workshop on Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) in the Islamic...
In order to increase understanding, support and advocacy for OST among all relevant stakeholders, the Ministry of Public Health proposes to organize a one day awareness workshop on Opioid Substitution...
View ArticleWorkshop – Opiate realities: “From behind the eyes”
A custom workshop of select CAST Canada material with panels of folks with lived experience - direct, family and professional - we will see the realities of the opiate experience "From Behind the Eyes"...
View ArticleLaunch of Naloxone programme in Australia
The Expanding Naloxone Availability in the ACT (ENAACT) Committee is pleased to invite you to the Launch of Australia’s first overdose management program that provides naloxone on prescription to...
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IDPC Drug Policy Guide
National policy makers engaged in the field of drug policy are working in an era of uncertainty. Simplistic ‘war on drugs’ strategies have failed in their key objectives of eradicating illicit drug...
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