This year, of the 13 resolutions that have been proposed, 8 were about health. This shows us that we are now putting health at the centre stage of the drug control system. This is also an issue of saving money. The cost of one untreated drug dependent person is 833,00 pounds, according to a UK …
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Side event – Protecting Youth with Drug Policy: Criminalization Has Failed
Damon Barrett – HRI Convention of the Rights of the Child actually refers to drugs. Criminalizing children for anything, as you would an adult, isn’t appropriate. Is criminalization an appropriate legislative response to protecting children from drugs? What do we use to measure if criminalization has benefited children? Four main questions we must consider: 1. …
Side event – Harm Reduction Works
Harm Reduction Works. Examples from Around the World Invest, Kazakhstan Engage Tanzania Implement Malaysia Funded by UNAIDS, technical support agencies – PWUD. Speaker from Crimea not able to be here for obvious reasons Tanzania Case Study . Often focusing on the problems, etc. May need more development, scaling up, etc. But look …
Side event – Modernising drug law enforcement
Mike Trace: Partnership Organized by the Government of Switzerland, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Chatham House For many decades the focus of law enforcement efforts have been put into reducing the size of the market. Need to arrest and punish those caught in this system. …
Committee of the Whole – E/CN.7/2014/L.13
Education and training on drug use disorders Greece: an important issue Chair: title is acceptable PP1 Agreed PP2 Agreed PP3 Agreed PP4 Agreed PP5 Agreed PP6 Agreed PP7 Agreed PP8 Egypt: Add in scientific evidence for consistency. Netherlands: clarification Greece: Netherlands: delete paragraph Italy: add clarification about the main objective. Need a multidisciplinary approach.
Committee of the Whole – E/CN.7/2014/L.4
Sport for drug abuse prevention: promoting a drug-free society through sport and the Olympic ideal Russia. The objective is to prevent drug abuse through sports and healthy lifestyles. W promote the need to fight drugs among young people, make the right choices, etc. Title No comments. PP1 Russia. We have one small proposal to agree …