United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

CND Day 2 – Plenary Session Presentation of Item 3

March 16, 2015

Session on Item 3 Item 3: Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions (a) Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs …

Overdose deaths – An easy solution to prevent so many deaths

March 16, 2015

Event organised by the International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network Elizabeth Saenz, UNODC. In the USA there is an increasing concern about deaths by overdose. Although men are still dying from overdoses, there is a sharp increase in women dying from overdose in recent years. Overdose deaths are …

CND Day 1 – Agenda Item 6 (d): International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes while preventing their diversion

March 13, 2015

INCB President – 75% of the world’s population live without access to proper pain relief medication. In 1961, the international community committed to make adequate provisions to ensure access to pain medication while tackling diversion for illicit use. Addressing discrepancies in availability of controlled medicines is the responsibilities of governments due to their obligations under …

CND Day 1 – Agenda item 6(a): Challenges and future work of the CND and the WHO in the review of substances for possible scheduling recommendations

March 13, 2015

The goal is to assist states in applying the procedures as outlined in the three drug conventions. E/CN.7/2014/10 outlines the relevant provisions of the drug control conventions for scheduling. UNODC – By December 2014, the number of NPS reported by NPS rose to over 540 substances. The global spread of these substances have also increased …

Launch of the e-Book of Authorities

March 13, 2015

Organized by IDPC, TNI and HRI. http://bookofauthorities.info/ UNODC – Welcome. UNODC organized a series of regional dialogues this year with the idea to identify best practices. The Book of Authorities can be very useful to feed into these dialogues. Shows how civil society contributes to and supports the work of countries, including the UN. Good …

Meeting of the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs

March 12, 2015

1. Adoption of the draft agenda  Elisa Rubini, Vicechair of the VNGOC The first point of the agenda is the adoption of the draft agenda. Any feedback? Scott Bernstein, OSF I move to adopt the agenda. Elisa Rubini The agenda is adopted. 2. Approval of the minutes of the last meeting Elisa Rubini Do the …