drug use

End of Life Care and Substance Use Conference

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Manchester

This national conference focusses on end of life care for people with problematic alcohol and drug use. It will showcase findings from a unique research project exploring end of life care and problematic substance use. This will include the voices of people with experience, families, friends, carers, the professionals who work with them, and what existing evidence tells us. 

Monitoring Drug Use in Recreational Settings across Europe

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The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) have released their latest technical report “ Monitoring Drug Use in Recreational Settings across Europe: Conceptual Challenges and Methodological Innovations”. The report...

Report on Drug Use in the Americas 2019, Executive Summary

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Drug use continues to represent a significant problem in the Americas, and one that challenges policy makers at the highest levels. The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (known by its Spanish language acronym, CICAD), of the...

Novel Psychoactive Substances Symposium

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Philadelphia
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United States

The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education is hosting an international 2-day symposium on the status of the Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) crisis in the United States. The event will take place in Philadelphia on the 13th and 14th of November.

The focus of the event will be in on synthetic cannabinoids, opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants and hallucinogens.

Strategy to Combat Opioid Abuse

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its five point strategy to combat opioid abuse, misuse, and overdose. The five points that the strategy is based on are to: Improve access to prevention, treatment and recovery...

2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium - Presentations

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A number of presentations from the 2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium, which was held on Monday, 8 October 2018, have been made available. The theme of the event was C linical, community and policy responses to emerging problems in drug...