All Resources for 'Policy, Governance & International Affairs'

UNODC’s Strategic Vision for Africa 2030

Format
Book
Themes
Public Health
Policy
Responding to Drug-Related Offending 
Health & Justice Responses 
Justice and Diversion
Partner Organisation

UNODC’s Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 outlines our mission to provide more safety to Africa’s people, government and institutions from drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and illicit financial flows.

The UNODC Vision 2030 seeks to...

Youth drinking declines - what have we learned?

Format
Video and audio recordings
Themes
Data
Prevention
Public Health

Since the early 2000s, adolescent drinking in Australia and in many high income countries has fallen dramatically. For example, among 14-17 year old Australians, the rate of risky drinking has fallen from 30% in 2001 to 9% in 2019. This...

Reducing Substance Use Stigma: The Role of First Responders

Format
Video and audio recordings
Themes
Populations
Family
Mental Health
Law Enforcement
Partner Organisation

Stigma is one of the biggest barriers people face when seeking care for substance use disorders. Designed for members of the law enforcement community, this webinar explored the relationship between substance use, the brain and mental...

Drug Treatment and Management Training in Prison Inaugurated

Format
News
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women
Law Enforcement
Prisons / Corrections

Drug use has been identified as one of the ominous problems that the society faces now-a-days. Every drug dependent person has different and complex difficulties to go through in the process of recovering from such harmful behavior. Person...

Alcohol Consumption and Cause-Specific Mortality in Cuba: Prospective Study of 120 623 Adults

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Men
Women

Abstract

Background

The associations of cause-specific mortality with alcohol consumption have been studied mainly in higher-income countries. We relate alcohol consumption to mortality in Cuba.

Methods

In 1996-2002, 146 556 adults were...

Quality Assurance (QA) of the Drug Treatment Services in Pakistan

Publication Date
Format
ISSUP Webinar
Themes
Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Partner Organisation
The ISSUP Quality in Treatment Network and ISSUP Pakistan, in collaboration with MNC, UNODC and INL, are pleased to present their webinar on Quality Assurance (QA) of the Drug Treatment Services in Pakistan.

10th Emirates UCG Edition on Nursing, Healthcare Management and Patient Safety Conference

Publication Date
Format
Scientific article
Themes
Populations
Women
Quality Assurance
Public Health
Infectious Diseases

On behalf of the 10th Emirates UCG edition on Nursing, Healthcare Management and Patient Safety Conference December 15-17, 2021 Committee, it gives us a great pleasure to announce NHPSUCG2021 scheduled on December 15-17, 2021 in Dubai, UAE...

Wastewater Analysis and Drugs

Format
Book
Themes
Data

Introduction

Analysing communal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products in order to estimate their consumption in the community is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including...

Call for Substance Use Prevention Research Partners

Format
News
Themes
Populations
Men
Women

We are looking for partners who are interested in receiving training and free Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program materials to implement evaluation studies.

These could involve in-person, online or video implementation of any of our one...