United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Side event: Innovative responses to promoting access to controlled medicines while preventing diversion and non-medical use: following up on the global “Access and Availability campaign by the chair of the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs”

Ambassador Vermuelen (Belgium): introduced the topic and the history of Belgium’s involvement including last year’s initiative, which was at the heart of Belgium’s Presidency of CND. Speakers: Dilkushi Poovendran (WHO), Ghislain D’Hoop, Carolyn Patterson (Assistant Secy Govt of Australia, Health and Aged Care) Jagit Pavadia, President, INCB: Thank you to the govt of Belgium and …

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Plenary Item 5. Implementation of the international drug control treaties (continued) (Night Session)

Item 5 (d). International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion CHAIR: Introduction to Item 5d. We offer the framework to scale and improve the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes. This issue is very important to my home …

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