Public Health

The intersection of substance use with broader public health concerns. 

Global Drug Survey 2021

News
The Global Drug Survey uses an anonymous online survey to conduct the world’s biggest drug survey. The annual GDS survey runs from the middle of November each year for approximately 6 weeks. GDS partners with global media giants to act as...

Who Cares if They Die? They're Only Junkies.

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Online
United Kingdom

About this Event

The number of drug-related deaths in the past year will soon be published. Catriona Matheson, Chair of the Drug Deaths Taskforce (DDTF), has suggested that the number of deaths of in 2019 will be higher than the unacceptable level of 2018.

Drug and Alcohol Related Mortality - Looking Beyond the Statistics

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Online

About this Event

In October the Office for National Statistics published the latest statistics for drug-related deaths in 2019, showing – yet again – a record year in almost a decade of increasing deaths and an appalling picture of human loss and suffering. 

The Pandemic Nine Months On: What Lessons Have Drug and Alcohol Services Learned?

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Online

Services have had the chance to come to terms with the seismic and sudden changes that the pandemic required of us nine months ago.

This webinar will look at whether some of these changes have been beneficial and will outlast the pandemic, and also what services will embrace on return to a more normal environment.

Reconvened 63rd CND session

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Vienna

The reconvened sixty-third session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will be held from 2 to 4 December 2020 starting at 11 am and 3 pm at the Vienna International Centre, as well as via virtual platform. Due to current COVID-19 restrictions only members of the Commission may attend the meeting in person. 

Alcohol and Cancer

Video and audio recordings
The focus in this webinar is the links between alcohol and cancer and the forthcoming Europe Beating Cancer Plan.