DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

They can be taken as tablets or capsules, be inhaled or injected.

19. Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible to children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol

(i) Women and drug abuse and addiction, in collaboration with UNDCP

(a) To consider incorporating substance abuse prevention, treatment and health care into their national drug control strategies in order to reduce both the spread of HIV AIDS and other blood borne diseases and drug abuse

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10. Effects on individuals, society and international drug control of the prescription of narcotic drugs to drug addicts.

(d) Assigning priority to developing and implementing activities and programmes aimed at treating and preventing addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, and the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants

(b) To assign priority to developing and implementing activities and programmes aimed at treating and preventing addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, and the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants

(b) New criteria for aspiration hazards

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Drug testing can therefore be classified as both primary and secondary prevention since it may deter initiation and encourage cessation.

12. Urges all States to assign priority to activities and programmes aimed at preventing the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants as well as preventing other addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, among children and young people, especially those in vulnerable situations, and urges all States to counter the use of children and young people in the illicit production of and trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

15. Urges all States to assign priority to activities and programmes aimed at preventing the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants as well as preventing other addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, among children and young people, especially those in vulnerable situations, and urges all States to counter the use of children and young people in the illicit production of and trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

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Action adopted by the General Assembly Item 10. Effects on individuals, at its seventeenth special session and society and international drug

Further, the region is subject to clandestine manufacture and diversion from legitimate channels of psychotropic substances, mainly stimulants, and inhalants, which are abused and pose serious dangers to health.

Figure V shows the reported trends of abuse in Europe, by drug type, between 1992 and 1995.

16. Also urges all States to make appropriate treatment and rehabilitation accessible to children, including adolescents, dependent on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, inhalants and alcohol

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It also encourages the State party to support rehabilitation programmes for child victims of drug and substance abuse.

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Stimulants, cannabis and inhalants are by far the substances most abused in the region.

This section describes the hazards of the substance or mixture and the appropriate warning information (signal word, hazard statement(s) and precautionary statement(s)) associated with those hazards. The section should include a brief summary conclusion of the data given as described in A4.2.4.3.

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Africa and eastern Europe are also increasingly affected by traffic in psychotropic substances and the diversion of the latter to illicit purposes.

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She concluded that the existence of large user and abuser populations made the substances increasingly attractive for drug traffickers, and that it might be advisable to reverse the trend at as early a stage as possible.

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National drug control planning and coordination institutions will be established or strengthened, national drug control plans adopted, and drug control concerns included in national development plans.

(a) Drug users who commit minor drug law offences (usually possession and sale of small quantities of an illicit substance)

Algeria continued to support the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as the leading coordination and control body on drugs and urged the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) to do all it could to combat the spread of HIV AIDS in Africa due to drug use.

(b) In the countries that are being drawn into the global market, the principal limitation is a continuing emphasis on the traditional plant based narcotic drugs.

The broader approach to drug education has shown that it is possible to delay the onset of first drug use, which is strongly related to the development of more frequent later use that becomes problematic in health terms.

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When applied to illicit drug abuse, primary prevention is the prevention of any illicit taking of a controlled substance.

(c) Helping to stop ongoing recidivism by high cost drug abusing offenders, through drug treatment court programmes

Need to base frameworks on lessons learned from previous Programme activities

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A4.3.2.1.1 This sub section indicates the hazard classification of the substance or mixture.

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1. Adherence to and implementation of the international drug control treaties

As a consequence, drug issues are not systematically integrated into the development agenda.

In UNDCP, there was a shortfall of income over expenditure of 1.1 million.