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Technical Brief
Damon Barrett, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Martiani Oktavia, Jeanette Olsson, Mira Schneiders and Kate Welch provided background papers and literature reviews which informed this technical series.
This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis.
The first chapter of the booklet provides an overview of opioids as a group of substances and their patterns of non-medical use at the global level. It also reviews the latest trends in the global supply of opi...ates and synthetic opioids and the availability of pharmaceutical opioids for medical consumption. Issues specific to regional patterns and trends in opioid markets are also analysed, including the opioid crisis in North America and in Africa and the Middle East. The chapter also includes a discussion of the potential impact, in the region and worldwide, of changes in opium poppy cultivation and opium production in Afghanistan. reireg
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Constituting the fourth part of the World Drug Report 2022, this booklet focuses on the market dynamics of various stimulants – cocaine, amphetamines and “ecstasy” – and of NPS.
The first chapter contains an analysis of the global market for cocaine, starting with a review of cocaine supply..., including trends in the cultivation of coca bush and in the manufacture of and trafficking in cocaine at the global level and in the various regions. An analysis of different eradication strategies is included, as well as of the role of women in the cocaine supply chain. The chapter also presents the latest estimates of and trends in cocaine use, including a brief introduction to the various cocaine consumer products. Finally, it reviews the trends in the use of cocaine and the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in different regions
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The booklet starts with a general overview of how illicit drugs and the environment are linked within the bigger picture of the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change and environmental sustainability. It highlights direct and indirect linkages and gives examples of the significant local and i...ndividual-level impact that drugs can have on the environment. This is followed by a more in-depth overview of the latest scientific evidence for plant-based drugs and for synthetic drugs. For plant-based drugs, for example, this includes an analysis of the relationship between illicit crop cultivation and deforestation. For synthetic drugs, it includes an analysis of waste composition, volumes, and dumping and discharge, as well as the relation with wastewater treatment.
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Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
How WHO works to prevent drug use, reduce harm and improve safe access to medicines
2016 Update
Key population
Guidelines
Key Populations
Putting Asia’s HIV response back on track
Vanquishing violence and vulnerability in humanitarian settings
Background paper for the joint African Union–UNAIDS (in capacity of serving
Chair of H6) high-level side event at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly,
24 September 2018, at UNHQ, Conference Room 3
From choice, a world of possibilities
UNAIDS/10.03E / JC1767E (English original, March 2010) ISBN 978 92 9 173849 6
Journal des anthropologues n° 138-139, 2014
http://journals.openedition.org/jda/4444
Le médicament pharmaceutique industriel est un objet de santé
à la fois scientifique, populaire et marchand. Si ces deux premiers
caractères sont souvent mis en avant respectivement par les sciences
biom...édicales et pharmaceutiques, par la santé publique ainsi qu’à
travers les médias, sa troisième composante est plus souvent passée
sous silence. Elle tend à être dissimulée derrière ce qui est présenté
comme la vocation première du médicament, à savoir la santé des
individus, leur bien-être physique et psychique. Or, le caractère
marchand du médicament est un formidable vecteur de dynamiques
et d’initiatives. Il est peut-être ce qui explique avant tout
l’incroyable vitalité du secteur pharmaceutique de par la planète,
non sans poser de nombreux problèmes d’ordre sanitaire et de santé
publique.
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