IV. RESPONSES TO DRUG ABUSE 65 93 20

Availability of opiates for medical needsSee paragraph 73 above.

Demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific needs

Rev.1 medical needs 4

Demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific needsSee paragraph 76 below.

Rev.1 for medical and scientific needs 4

UNDCP drug abuse prevention project in Brazil

(i) Aim at preventing the use of drugs and at reducing the adverse consequences of drug abuse

Programme 17 contains five subprogrammes policy development and coordination control of licit supply of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors prevention and reduction of drug abuse elimination of illicit crops and suppression of illicit drug trafficking.

What are the medications?

A. Non medical use of drugs 25 26 7

As the procurement agent of the Global Tuberculosis Drug Facility (GDF), IAPSO has used its e commerce application effectively to deliver drugs around the world, valued in 2002 at US 11 million.

Emphasizing that the need to balance the global licit supply of opiates against the legitimate demand for opiates for medical and scientific purposes is central to the international strategy and policy of drug abuse control,

UNDCP response

Emphasizing that the need to balance the global licit supply of opiates against the legitimate demand for opiates for medical and scientific purposes is central to the international strategy and policy of drug abuse control,

Women and substance use

(f) Substance abuse (art.

14. Expert in Drug Abuse L4

DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Socially integrated young people have started experimenting with drugs, and there are indications that experimentation with drugs and initiation into drug abuse is taking place at an earlier age than before.

A. Non medical use of drugs

B. Drug abuse by injection 18 25 7

1996 19 Demand for and supply of opiates 23 July 1996 V.A.8 165 for medical and scientific needs

In addition, substance use abuse of narcotics and psychotropic drugs is significant among adolescents.

45. The view was also expressed that the responsibility of consumer countries for the prevention and reduction of drug abuse and their obligations for funding drug supply reduction should have been reflected in the revisions.

Illicit drug traffic and supply

ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFIC AND SUPPLY, INCLUDING REPORTS

It also improved the analysis on drug abuse trends through the Weighted Analysis on Drug Abuse Trends.

National Surveillance Center on Drug Abuse, Report of Drug Abuse Surveillance 2003 (Beijing, 2004).

In addition to medicated detoxification treatment, traditional medicine models exist in some countries.

Drug abuse treatment

Understanding the problem of drug abuse

The role of the Board in ensuring the availability of opiates for medical purposes was stressed, and Governments were requested to implement the recommendations made by the Board in its special report entitled Availability of Opiates for Medical Needs, 6 published in 1996.

One of the principal responsibilities of the Programme is to coordinate and carry out technical cooperation projects to reduce the supply of, demand for and use of illicit drugs, and to strengthen national capacities for drug control and law enforcement.

Furthermore, it can be assumed that high prevalence rates for a certain drug of abuse indicate that the particular drug is actually more prevalent than drugs with reported lower prevalence rates.

Drug use patterns changed without a concomitant change in attitudes.

Illicit drug traffic and supply

(c) Drug and medication supplies setting up a network of pharmacies, drug and medication warehouses and outlets, encouraging import and trade in drugs and sanitation materials, etc.

Monitor and analyse information on illicit drug abuse and drug prevention worldwide countering money laundering.

(b) World situation with regard to drug abuse

D. Understanding the problem of drug abuse

Prevention and reduction of drug abuse ... ...

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12. To stem the flow of illicit drugs, reducing illicit drug demand is as important as reducing illicit drug supply and trafficking.

The half life of a drug provides a measure of irreversible drug loss from the blood.