El VNGOC, junto con NYNGOC y la Unidad de la Sociedad Civil de la UNODC, está organizando un evento paralelo en línea al margen del Foro de Asociaciones del ECOSOC 2023 el 31 de enero de 2023 a las 8:30 a.m. El evento se titula: El rol central de la sociedad civil en las políticas de drogas, el COVID-19 y el logro de la Agenda 2030

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología de Adicciones de Mid-America (MATTC, por sus siglas en inglés) se asoció con la Red de Respuesta a los Opioides de las Comunidades Étnicas en Missouri, el Foro de Políticas de Adicción y la Red de Respuesta a los Opioides (ORN en IA, KS, MO y NE) para traducir 5 productos de prevención diferentes basados en la evidencia "Materiales educativos para la prevención del uso de opioides"  a 12 idiomas diferentesy garantizar que sean culturalmente apropiados, incluidos el árabe, el bosnio, el birmano, el dari, el francés, el chino mandarín, el pastún, el...

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Las pruebas de detección e intervenciones breves (SBI, por sus siglas en inglés) consisten en una variedad de actividades dirigidas a las personas que consumen alcohol de riesgo, pero que no son gravemente dependientes del alcohol. Muchos estudios han demostrado que el SBI podría servir como una herramienta muy eficaz para reducir el consumo de alcohol y las consecuencias negativas asociadas. Sin embargo, la tasa de SBI proporcionada por los profesionales de la salud en la República Checa es relativamente baja. Nuestro objetivo es realizar una evaluación económica cuantificada...

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The Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (ES-CICAD) is seeking expressions of interest from experts in the field of alternatives to incarceration and social integration to be trained as Master Trainers for the delivery of the Case Care Management curriculum internationally. Upon successful completion of the Training of Trainers, these Master Trainers will be included on the Case Care Management roster of trainers and can be contacted to deliver the training when scheduled. If interested, please submit your resume and relevant information...

This document, ‘The International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders' is the work of UNODC and WHO to support Member States in their efforts to develop
and expand effective, evidence-based and ethical treatment for drug use disorders.

The Standards are intended for all those involved in the policy development, planning, funding, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of treatment services and interventions for drug use disorders.

This document is based on currently available scientific evidence on treatment for drug use disorders and sets out a framework for the implementation of...

Dear friends and colleagues, 

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. 

Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing about that means that, you can still follow the plenaries and the side events! That’s why we thought that you might appreciate having all the links in one place.

GENERAL LINKS TO FOLLOW CND

• Link to 65th session with general information on organizational arrangements: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/65_Session_2022/65CND_Main...

Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs have become increasingly prevalent in implementation research. As hybrid designs enter their second decade of widespread use, the Frontiers in Health Services’ Implementation Science section launches a Research Topic to fuel the field’s discourse on the past, present, and future of hybrid designs in knowledge translation. Submissions are welcome of both Original and/or Brief Research, Review, Methods, and Perspective articles. The call addresses critical assessments of hybrid designs, innovative use of hybrid designs in current trials, and...

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was classified a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with early reports of the disease occurring in the Middle East and North African (MENA) area. On January 2021, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO-EMRO) reported 5,566,708 confirmed cases with 131,886 fatalities to date. Since 2016, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area has seen a modest but steady growth in the harm reduction response.

Little is known about the region's health response and the situation of drug users (PWUD) during the outbreak. During COVID-19, the MENA Harm...