Intervention focusing on drug abuse prevention

Intervention focusing on the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers

UNDCP drug abuse prevention project in Brazil

Developing operational frameworks for drug control will provide the main basis for interventions.

Pharmaceutical services provide the medications that are needed for preventive care or treatment.

Research will be promoted and studies conducted on drug abuse and demand reduction interventions, particularly effective methods of preventing drug abuse, concentrating on those most at risk, particularly youth.

There was no noticeable negative effect of the programme on other drug intervention programmes at Amsterdam.

In the biennial reports questionnaire, States are requested to provide information about some of the most basic kinds of intervention focusing on drug abuse prevention, namely providing information and education about drugs and drug abuse, life skills development and providing alternatives to drug use.

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Subprogramme 3. Prevention and reduction of drug abuse, elimination of illicit crops and suppression of illicit drug trafficking.

Subprogramme 13.3 Prevention and reduction of drug abuse, elimination of illicit crops and suppression of illicit drug trafficking

Programme 13 (International drug control), particularly subprogramme 13.3 (Prevention and reduction of drug abuse, elimination of illicit crops and suppression of illicit drug trafficking)

II. Prevention and reduction of drug abuse with a view to the elimination of the illicit demand for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances

It has actively participated in the preparation of the plan of action on drug abuse prevention in the workplace, the plan of action on drug abuse prevention in the school environment and the plan of action on women and drug abuse.

Promotion of policies for the prevention of illicit drug use

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

V. OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS FOR A. Proposed options

14.2 The activities of the Drug Control Programme were funded largely from the regular budget and extrabudgetary resources, comprising the budget of the Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the budget for programme support cost.

Subprogramme 3 Prevention and reduction of drug abuse

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11. Mr. Wilmot (Ghana) said that he supported the establishment of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention to coordinate the work of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) and the Centre for International Crime Prevention (A 52 295, para. 114).

6. The year 1998 saw an intensification of cooperation with the United Nations International Drug Control Programme in the context of the new Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, in particular with regard to projects in Africa, central Asia, the Balkans and the Caribbean region.

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Section 16 International drug control, crime prevention and criminal justice

That increase could be partly attributable to improvement in the reporting system and in the availability of treatment services throughout the region.

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.

Secondary prevention aims at helping people who are illicit drug abusers to stop doing so.

All interventions supported by the Fund must be fully in line with the provisions or objectives of the international drug control conventions.

The work of the Global Youth Network has resulted in a series of publications including Drug Abuse Prevention among Youth from Ethnic and Indigenous Minorities (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.04.XI.17) Schools School based Education for Drug Abuse Prevention (United Nations publication, Sales No.

UNODOC Escritório das Nações Unidas para Controle das Drogas e Prevenção do Crime the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention

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

In addition, no evidence of biological munitions filled with dry agents was found.

Effective interventions for the prevention and reduction of drug abuse are only possible with reliable, relevant and timely information defining the nature and extent of the problems and the health implications of illicit drug abuse.

There is evidence that truants are also more likely to engage in illicit drug use, as well as other forms of juvenile delinquency, which poses methodological problems for school surveys of illicit drug use, as well as for interventions.

UNDCP has developed a drug control strategy for the country aimed at providing direct support to local communities affected by drug problems, and to that end, engaging the recipients in the planning and implementation of interventions.

26. The Programme had started to develop a series of policy documents, that would address Programme priorities in, and approaches to, demand reduction and alternative development, Programme policy concerning estimates of illicit crop cultivation and drug production, rapid assessment of drug abuse situations and primary prevention.

Most increases in coverage have been less remarkable, in the range of 5 10 per cent in some cases a decrease in coverage was noted.

The above mentioned biennial reports questionnaire scores reflect a composite of 28 individual measures distributed in four main areas of intervention (detoxification, substitution therapy, non pharmacological intervention and social reintegration) in seven possible environments.

(f) UNICEF and UNESCO have agreed to monitor an integral drug prevention programme in primary education and teachers apos training in drug abuse prevention in Peru, subject to the identification by UNDCP of funding for drug related activities

Thematic debate on drug abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation

International drug control, crime prevention and criminal justice

The reported coverage of non pharmacological intervention increased or remained stable in all regions except Latin America and the Caribbean.

Shifting from project activities to a programme approach will require the development of an operational framework for drug control in order to provide the main basis for interventions.

Both CICAD and UNDCP are in the process of implementing selected recommendations of that Plan of Action on the basis of respective comparative advantages.