Dear friends and colleagues, 

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. 

Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing about that means that, you can still follow the plenaries and the side events! That’s why we thought that you might appreciate having all the links in one place.

GENERAL LINKS TO FOLLOW CND

• Link to 65th session with general information on organizational arrangements: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/65_Session_2022/65CND_Main...

Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs have become increasingly prevalent in implementation research. As hybrid designs enter their second decade of widespread use, the Frontiers in Health Services’ Implementation Science section launches a Research Topic to fuel the field’s discourse on the past, present, and future of hybrid designs in knowledge translation. Submissions are welcome of both Original and/or Brief Research, Review, Methods, and Perspective articles. The call addresses critical assessments of hybrid designs, innovative use of hybrid designs in current trials, and...

Untuk mendukung praktik berbasis bukti di bidang perawatan kecanduan di Pakistan, ITRAMIC Foundation Lahore menyelenggarakan pelatihan virtual untuk staf dan profesional perawatan dari 22 hingga 29 Oktober 2021, bekerja sama dengan Kementerian Dalam Negeri dan Pengendalian Narkotika Pakistan. Pelatihan ini diberikan pada kurikulum berikut:

• Kurikulum 1: Fisiologi dan Farmakologi untuk Profesional Kecanduan

      Pelatih Nasional Pakistan berikut memfasilitasi pelatihan:

• Dr. Muhammad Amjad Chaudhry
• Letkol (R) Dr. Nadeem Ahmad Bajwa
• Ms. Nazia Bashir

This training workshop was conducted at the Department of Psychology Federal Urdu University of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan in collaboration with ISSUP Pakistan Chapter on Tuesday, December 28, 2021.

The objective of this training workshop was to help youth develop understanding about the concept of bully and bully-victim, understand the ecological model in the context of bullying, risk factors, and consequences of Bullying including substance use in youth, and help them to develop resources to combat bullying and substance use and apply resource group method, and develop skills...

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) diklasifikasikan sebagai pandemi pada 11 Maret 2020, dengan laporan awal penyakit ini terjadi di wilayah Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara (MENA). Pada Januari 2021, Kantor Regional Mediterania Timur Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO-EMRO) melaporkan 5.566.708 kasus yang dikonfirmasi dengan 131.886 kematian hingga saat ini. Sejak 2016, wilayah Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara (MENA) telah mengalami pertumbuhan yang sederhana namun stabil dalam respons pengurangan dampak buruk.

Sedikit yang diketahui tentang respons kesehatan kawasan dan situasi pengguna narkoba (PWUD) selama...

The Annual Meeting will be held on March 2-5 2022, and is currently scheduled to take place at the Edinburgh International Conference Center in Edinburgh, Scotland.  

The SRNT 2022 Annual Meeting may be a hybrid (part in person, part virtual) or entirely virtual, depending on how things play out in the coming months. A final decision about the meeting format (face-to-face hybrid virtual component vs. entirely virtual) will not be made for some time. In the meantime, attendees should not hesitate to submit for fear of being unable to travel. Rest assured that the meeting, no matter the chosen...