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Advanced seminar on amphetamine use for Eastern Europe and Central Asia

01/09/2010 - 03/09/2010
Prague, Czech Republic

This year, the Harm Reduction Knowledge Hub for Europe and Central Asia welcomes specialists interested developing interventions for stimulant users. Together, the participants will enjoy the challenge of an intensive learning experience through lectures, role plays and reading scientific literature.

This three-day training is designed to assist public health professionals in acquiring an understanding of work with stimulant users and will equip them with the skills required to analyse local drug situation with respect to the types of stimulant drugs.

Detention as treatment: detention of methamphetamine users in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand

Governments in Southeast Asia Detain Thousands in Abusive Drug Detention Centers

A new report released by the Nossal Institute for Global Health and the Open Society Institute documents the arbitrary detention of thousands of drug users, mostly young people, in controversial detention centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. While the detention is supposedly for treatment, children and adults are held in boot camp-like centers where they do not receive adequate medical care and are subjected to routine physical and sexual abuse.
Added on 10 May 2010

Methamphetamine: a European Union perspective in the global context. A EMCDDA–Europol joint publication.

A new report from the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction focuses on Methamphetamine. The report discusses the drug in both global and European contexts, gives some historical background and examines initiatives to respond to its growing prevalence.

A new report from the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction focuses on Methamphetamine. The report discuss the drug in both global and European contexts, gives some historical background and examines initiatives to respond to its growing prevalence.
Added on 15 July 2009

Draft UN Political Declaration and Action Plan - March 2009

These two documents are the versions presented to delegates when they arrived at the high level meeting on 11th March. They contain two significant amendments to the version agreed by member states on 3rd March - the addition of the words "drug abuse" in paragraph 20 of the declaration, and the removal of the word "considering" in paragraph 47(g) of the action plan. Both changes were made by the CND secretariat, that altered the meaning of those paragraphs towards wording favoured by certain member states.

These two documents are the versions presented to delegates when they arrived at the high level meeting on 11th March.
Added on 7 April 2009

Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle: A drugs market in disarray

Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest report of the Transnational Institute (TNI) based on in-depth research in the region, casts serious doubts on this claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal symptoms' that leave little reason for optimism.

Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest report of the Transnational Institute (TNI).
Added on 29 January 2009

TNI Debate Paper Number 16 - Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market

TNI have released a new report entitled "Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market”. The studies findings are that the significant decline in opium production in Burma and Laos, which has been heralded as a major success for international drug control policy, is having a devastating effect on farmers and is triggering worrying consequences for drug users.TNI have released a new report entitled "Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market".

TNI have released a new report entitled "Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market”. The studies findings are that the significant decline in opium production in Burma and Laos, which has been heralded as a major success for international drug control policy, is having a devastating effect on farmers and is triggering worrying consequences for drug users.
Added on 25 September 2008

UNGASS News, Issue 3

The third of our regular "UNGASS News" updates, keeping the network up to speed with developments in the review process, reports on the Demand Reduction Expert Working Group and the 2008 Global ATS Report from UNODC. Contents: Introducing the UNGASS Review Process; The Expert Working Group on Demand Reduction; The 2008 Global ATS report from UNODC; and the First Intersessional Meeting.

The third of our regular "UNGASS News" updates, keeping the network up to speed with developments in the review process, reports on the Demand Reduction Expert Working Group and the 2008 Global ATS Report from UNODC.
Added on 25 September 2008

The Sentencing Project: The next big thing - Methamphetamine in the United States

Methamphetamine is a dangerous drug that represents a substantial challenge to policy makers, health care professionals, social service providers and the law enforcement community. It is important that our public resources be effectively directed to both prevent the development of such a habit as well as treat those individuals before the proverbial die has been cast...

Methamphetamine is a dangerous drug that represents a substantial challenge to policy makers, health care professionals, social service providers and the law enforcement community.
Added on 1 January 2006
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