The 2024 Feedback Survey gathered valuable insights from users of the UN Toolkit on Synthetic Drugs. Running from January to December 2024, it assessed user experiences, explored how Toolkit resources are applied, and identified areas for growth.

This year saw record participation, with 323 respondents from 63 countries—a small but meaningful share of the Toolkit’s 300,000+ unique users. Increased response rates were driven by targeted engagement, including early access to new modules, multilingual outreach, interactive demonstrations, and direct communication with the Toolkit team.

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Similar to controlled narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, precursors and chemicals often appear under a wide range of names in commerce and technical literature. This makes the work of national and international drug control authorities more complex. To support these efforts, a series of multilingual dictionaries have been developed.

The first multilingual list of controlled substances was published in 1958, focusing only on narcotic drugs. In 1983, the first edition of the Multilingual Dictionary of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances under International Control (MLD) was...