The Project focuses on preventing the harmful use of psychoactive substances and minimizing any harm already occurring.

The conference was entitled quot Street Children And Psychoactive Substance Innovation and Cooperation quot , Geneva, Switzerland, 18 22 April 1994.

(b) Drug users who commit common offences, usually because of psychoactive effects of drugs (e.g., predatory crimes, violent crimes, traffic offences)

Nevertheless, this does not raise a new ethical problem. Side effects are common in most medical interventions, including treatment with psychoactive drugs.

39. The production, manufacture of and trade in psychoactive drugs and the chemicals needed for their illicit manufacture should be controlled nationally and internationally.

A string of major drug trafficking cases have been solved, including the smuggling of new psychoactive substances to the United States by Sun's gang, and the

Secondly, drug companies are not going to develop really sophisticated psychoactive drugs. We know that most mental illnesses have a biological component that can be dealt with.

Combatants are under pressure and may take, or even be administered, psychoactive drugs in order to boost their fighting spirit or enable them to endure their role.

They mentioned the need to improve access to and the effectiveness of prevention programmes, as well as to raise awareness about the risks involved in abusing psychoactive substances.

Recalling its resolution 45 6, in which it encouraged States to involve the pharmaceutical industry in increasing knowledge about the potential for abuse of and dependence on psychoactive substances,

R. A. Rawson and W. Ling, quot Opioid addiction treatment modalities and some guidelines to their optimal use quot , Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 23, No. 2 (1991), pp. 151 163.

And by understanding these sorts of processes and these sorts of connections, we're going to understand the effects of medication or meditation and better personalize and make effective, for example, psychoactive drugs.

In the analysis of the health condition of the population of Republika Srpska, a significant place is taken by monitoring the trends of harmful habits, such as consumption of tobacco, alcohol and psychoactive substances.

33. The joint UNDCP WHO Global Initiative on Primary Prevention of Substance Abuse is aimed at developing approaches and strategies to promote cost effective community based prevention of the abuse of licit and illicit psychoactive substances.

It is important that such policies not only emphasize the public health benefits of controlling psychoactive drugs, but also give due attention to the rights and responsibilities of individuals, in relation to their lifestyles and health (WHO).

Two respondents stated that they had implemented the recommendation that Governments should include in national regulations for new drug approval explicit requirements that dependence potential and abuse liability be assessed for new psychoactive substances. South Africa and the United Kingdom.

(p) Be based on a comprehensive approach to all potentially harmful psychoactive substances including alcohol, tobacco and solvents, particularly in view of multiple substance abuse and the abuse of lawfully obtained but inappropriately used controlled substances (Norway, ICAA, WHO). G. Targeting those in need

Ibogaine is one of the psychoactive indole alkaloids found in the western African shrub Tabernanthe ibogaP. Popik, R. T. Layer and P. Skolnik, quot Years of ibogaine neurochemical and pharmacological actions of a putative anti addictive drug quot , Pharmacological Review, No. 47, 1995, pp. 235 253.

And we know just an amazing amount more about the brain now than we did 10 years ago. We need a pump push from the federal government, through NIH and National Science NSF and places like that to start helping the drug companies develop some advanced psychoactive drugs.

instead of the average THC content of 0.5 to 4.0 per cent of outdoor cultivation. With its active ingredient so high, the psychoactive effect of cultivated cannabis can be powerfully hallucinogenic, making it a very different drug from the traditional plant whose abuse became popular in the 1960s.

19. The first meeting of the Advisory Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) indigenous peoples and substance use project was held in September 1997 in New York the project s aim is to prevent or minimize the risks of and damage relating to psychoactive substance use, mainly among indigenous communities.

The objectives of the project are to promote healthy development of indigenous peoples and communities through the prevention and minimization of problems related to psychoactive substances and to develop processes and tools that will assist indigenous peoples and communities to self determination and self management issues relating to substance use.

It will build on the work achieved at the first two conferences, held in Edmonton, Canada in 1992 and Sydney, Australia, in 1994. The conference will provide a forum for indigenous peoples worldwide to network and share resources, research and information concerning the prevention and treatment of issues relating to psychoactive substances.

To facilitate the process, a computer based system, the Computer and Telecommunication System for International and National Drug Control, has been designed and is available to strengthen the management and control of licit movements of psychoactive drugs and precursor chemicals, and to enhance timeliness of information exchange at the national and international levels.

Side effects are common in most medical interventions, including treatment with psychoactive drugs. In 2004, for example, the United States Food and Drug Administration told drug manufacturers to print warnings on certain antidepressants about the increased short term risk of suicide in adolescents using them, and required increased monitoring of young people as they started medication.

Intriguingly, ketamine s psychoactive properties may be responsible for its mood enhancing effect. Psychedelic and psycholytic treatments popular in the 1960 s and 1970 s, before research was severely restricted and interest in the clinical use of psychedelics faded were based on the notion that the drug induced psychological experience was essential to facilitating the psychotherapeutic process.

The aim of the Healing our Spirit conferences is to provide a forum for indigenous people worldwide to network and share resources, research and information associated with the prevention and treatment of ill health relating to psychoactive substances. The objective is to promote the healthy development of indigenous people and communities from developed and developing countries.

These leaders profound ambivalence toward the goal of a world free of illegal drugs is shared by the European Union, where restrictions on narcotics consumption have slackened over the past decade. The past three US presidents, furthermore, have all admitted to consuming to one extent or another illegal psychoactive substances, while seven million Americans, according to the United Nations, are regular cocaine users.

Internally, there is widespread disengagement from the political system and a growing sense of radical disaffection among some citizens, especially the young. There also appears to be a widespread increase in psychological dysfunction, ranging from anorexia and obesity to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and widespread depression, all of which have led to a massive increase in the consumption of psychoactive drugs.

In 1995, WHO created an Indigenous People Substance Use Project whose overall aim is to assist in the healthy development of indigenous people and communities through the prevention and minimization to individual, family and community of problems related to the use of, production of, trafficking in and supplying of psychoactive substances (alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and substances which people use and when ingested produces a change in mental processes and behaviour).