Chair: Good Morning. The focus of our discussion pertains to Strategic Management budgetary and administrative motions in the context of our economy. Yesterday, in collaboration with the CCP CJ, we deliberated on the Consolidated budget for the biennium 2024-2025 for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, referencing Containers document 5.2 (2013) and 15/2017, …
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
CND Thematic Discussion / Session 11 – Low availability of internationally controlled substances for medical & scientific purposes
Chair: Good Morning. Yesterday we had a fruitful discussion on the issues of the consequences and risk associated with non medical use of drugs. Today we will be discussing the low availability of nationally controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes, including for the relief of pain and palliative care. Before we start a discussion, …
Side event. Innovation responses to promoting access to controlled medicines, while preventing diversion and non-medical use: Following up on the global “access and availability” campaign led by the chair of the 65th CND
Organised by Belgium with the support of Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, the European Union, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the …
Side Event: Time is of the Essence, Reigniting Efforts for Scaling up Implementation of International Drug Policy Commitments to Improve the Ability of and Access to Controlled Substances for Medical and Scientific Purposes
Organized by the Union for International Cancer Control with the support of Australia, Belgium, Mexico, the Netherlands, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network, Walther Global Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology, the African Palliative Care Association, the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance and the International Association for Hospice …
CND 65th Reconvened Session – 9th December 2022
Reconvened Sixty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna, Austria, 8-9 December 2022 Chair: Welcome back. Secretariat: (Reminder on COVID safety measures in Vienna) Agenda item 4. – Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions Chair: We considered our consolidated budget yesterday. We, as a commission, are now required to take action. There have been …
CND Chair one-day special forum on availability and access to controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes
Chair: I welcome our panelists. We all know how severe this issue is – medicines are unavailable or unaffordable. This is for a variety of reasons, some of it is regulatory – lets not forget that there is a lot of weork done to optimize legislation. There is also often a lack of professional knowledge. …