This webinar highlights the value of partnering with elected officials, law enforcement professionals, school administrators and educators, parent and student organizations, faith-based organizations, local media and businesses for a...
People who have been incarcerated are approximately 100 times more likely to die by overdose in the first two weeks after their release than the general public. Despite high rates of opioid use disorder among justice-involved individuals...
The aim of this paper is to analyse changes in alcohol consumption since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We show that the frequency of alcohol consumption during COVID-19 is slightly higher for males than it was 2-3 years previously...
Socioeconomic status (SES) can be thought of as a measure of an individual's or family's social position relative to others that measures factors such as education, income, type of occupation and place of residence.
Research indicates that...
Introduction of the quarantine measures in Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan made it extremely difficult to provide drug dependence treatment services to the population of the region. This negatively affected the quality of life of people with...
In 2018, Mombasa planned to set up a methadone programme for heroin injecting drug users living in prisons. As a follow up, UNODC worked together with the County of Mombasa and the Kenya Prison Service in 2019, to support and expand...
The UNODC Kenya mentor has participated at the webinar on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and Substance Use Disorders in Kenya on Friday, 15 May 2020. Together with Hussein Manji, Public Health Consultant at UNODC ROEA, the mentor outlines...
The discovery of a large seizure of fentanyl in Myanmar indicates that the country may be a new transit route for the powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl.
Given the COVID-19 pandemic, many trafficking routes have been closed to Moroccan drug traffickers. This has led them to find new complex routes to traffic cannabis into Europe.
