stimulant drugs

Stimulants: Understanding Use, Impact, and Responses Reading List

Reading List

26 March 2024

Stimulants are a class of drugs that act on the central nervous system, increasing alertness, energy, and attention while elevating mood. They achieve these effects by enhancing the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and...

Stimulant Use Webinar Series. Part I: About Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Stimulant Use Disorder

ISSUP Webinar

23 January 2024

ISSUP Indonesia, ISSUP Malaysia and ISSUP Philippines, in collaboration with ITTC, present its joint webinar series on the use of Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) in the Asian region. This is Part I of a three-part webinar series on Stimulant Use

Stimulant Use Webinar Series. Part I: About Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Stimulant Use Disorder

23 January 2024

Jakarta

Indonesia

ISSUP Indonesia, ISSUP Malaysia and ISSUP Philippines, in collaboration with ITTC, welcome you to a joint initiative dedicated to the use of Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) in the Asian region. This is Part I of a three-part webinar series on Stimulant Use

Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and related substances

Book

Introduction The markets for hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and related semi-synthetic cannabinoids (SSC) are rapidly evolving areas with relatively limited information currently available. The European situation presented in Section 1 can only...

Responding to stimulant use — developments in treatment

Video and audio recordings

Objective: To better understand current developments in the treatment of stimulant use. Background: Stimulant drugs are second only to cannabis as the most widely used class of illicit drug globally, accounting for 68 million past-year...

Stimulants A Focus on Effective Treatment Interventions and Recovery Supports

Video and audio recordings

During this webinar you will learn how to: -Discuss research findings related to brain recovery following the use of stimulants. -Recall evidence-based behavioural interventions found to be effective in treating people with a stimulant use...

A series of videos on HIV prevention among people who use stimulant drugs

Video and audio recordings

11 October 2021

The UNODC Regional Programme Office for Eastern Europe (Kiev, Ukraine) and Charitable Fund "Humanitarian Action" (Russia) are launching a series of 8 animated videos on the provision of HIV prevention services for people who use stimulants...

United States

Register now at https://thenationalcouncil-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-W5Zn4sRTb6FgD0_PxM5Yw

Tuesday, March 2, 2021, starting at 01:00 PM (Washington, DC time)

Overdose deaths associated with illicit stimulants (cocaine and methamphetamine) have surged in the past eight years, according to a recent study by the National Inst