Addiction

Two new tobacco cessation medicines added to the WHO essential medicines list

News

Every two years, the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes its Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), a collection of medicines considered essential by WHO experts. The purpose of the list is to guide national authorities on the type...

Lived experience and the substance misuse treatment system

13 December 2021

Online

United Kingdom

At a time of significant opportunity to renew the

CND Special Event, Launch of the UNODC Synthetic Drug Strategy 2021-2025

19 November 2021

Online

A special event of the sixty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, will be held on Friday, 19 November 2021, from 12 noon to 1 p.m., Vienna Time (CEST) online and at the Vienna International Centre.

During this event, the UNODC Synthetic Drug Strategy 2021-2025 will be launched.

National Trauma and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis

ISSUP Webinar

18 January 2022

ISSUP Lebanon are pleased to present their Webinar on National Trauma and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis.

National Trauma and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis

18 January 2022

Beirut

Lebanon

ISSUP Lebanon would like to invite you to attend their Webinar on National and Substance Use: Lessons learned from the Lebanese Crisis.

The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction

ISSUP Webinar

30 November 2021

ISSUP Kenya are pleased to present their Webinar on the cyclic relationship between trauma and addiction and the implication in treatment.

The Relationship between Trauma and Addiction

30 November 2021

Nairobi

Kenya

ISSUP Kenya would like to invite you to attend their upcoming Webinar on the cyclic relationship between and and the implication in .

Research on gambling and links to suicide

29 November 2021

Online

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar led by Dr Steve Sharman, Research Fellow, The National

A Conversation About Corruption in Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Video and audio recordings

Elizabeth Saenz, UNODC, presents on the issue of patient abuse and corruption in treatment and provides a call to action on the need to address this problem that spans across countries.

Lifelong consequences of prenatal drug exposure

Video and audio recordings

14 October 2021

This webinar explored the issues of infants withdrawing from maternal drugs of addiction, and problems beyond the newborn period. Newborn drug withdrawal is often attributed to maternal opioids, but many other drugs can cause serious...