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The Institute of Alcohol Studies presents Seminar one in its four-part series on alcohol and sustainability. Seminar one looks at the impact of alcohol on the UN's SDGs and the opportunities for improved alcohol policy arising from the...

Alcohol Awareness Week is a week of awareness-raising, campaigning for change, and more. This year's Alcohol Awareness Week takes place from 15-21 November 2021 on the theme of Alcohol and relationships.

Alcohol Awareness Week is...

In an effort to tackle the problem of abuse and illicit trafficking of narcotics, psychotropics and addictive substances, the government has enacted Law no. 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. Basically, the sanctions regulated in the...

In 2020,1339 drug-related deaths were registered in Scotland.

This is a 5% increase compared to figures from 2019.

Other key findings show:

• The number of drug-related deaths has increased substantially over the last 20 years –...

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will hold a hybrid event commemorating the United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and launching the 2021 World Drug Report.

The event will take place in a hybrid...

In an attempt to reduce consumption of alcohol and the harm it causes, Scotland and Wales introduced minimum unit pricing (MUP) on alcohol purchases. 

Minimum unit price (MUP) is a pricing policy that sets a strength-based threshold...

UNODC’s Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 outlines our mission to provide more safety to Africa’s people, government and institutions from drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and illicit financial flows.

The UNODC Vision 2030 seeks to...

Abstract

Importance  State cannabis laws are changing rapidly. Research is inconclusive about their association with rates of self-harm and assault. Existing studies have not considered variations in cannabis commercialization across...

Over 87,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses over a 12 month period ending in September 2020.

Without question, there is a link between the increased numbers of people dying from drug overdoses and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fear...

This report presents the current status of alcohol consumption, alcohol-attributable harms and the implementation of alcohol control policies in the WHO European Region, using available data from 2010, 2016 and 2019.

A detailed overview...

The European Region has the highest level of alcohol consumption in the world.

To reduce these harms, WHO/Europe has identified three affordable, feasible and cost-effective intervention strategies:

• increase excise taxes on alcoholic...