The journey of recovery from substance use and mental health challenges is a profound and transformative experience. The effective integration of wellness into recovery services across care systems stands as a pivotal element in addressing substance misuse and its associated consequences. Wellness, with its holistic approach, holds great promise for enhancing the overall recovery experience and improving outcomes.

El Centro Global de Acreditación y Certificación (GCCC) está buscando voluntarios para participar en la prueba piloto del examen ICAP para la Prevención Escolar y Familiar.

INTRODUCTION: Individuals who visit nightclubs and electronic dance music (EDM) festivals tend to use psychoactive substances, often multiple substances, in this setting and are at risk of serious negative health effects. This paper aims to explore respondents’ experiences and perceptions in order to have a better understanding of patterns and motives related to psychoactive substance use and high-risk behaviours in EDM event attendees.

METHODS: In-depth and focus group interviews with 30 EDM event attendees who reported psychoactive substance use at nightlife events. The data was analysed...

El VNGOC, junto con NYNGOC y la Unidad de la Sociedad Civil de la UNODC, está organizando un evento paralelo en línea al margen del Foro de Asociaciones del ECOSOC 2023 el 31 de enero de 2023 a las 8:30 a.m. El evento se titula: El rol central de la sociedad civil en las políticas de drogas, el COVID-19 y el logro de la Agenda 2030

VNGOC está buscando 3-4 oradores de la sociedad civil de diferentes regiones que deseen presentar en el evento, centrándose en ejemplos concretos de acciones hacia las metas de 2030 y políticas de drogas efectivas y basadas en evidencia. El evento...

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En los entornos de atención médica somática, se considera que las colaboraciones interdisciplinarias (donde varias disciplinas trabajan de manera coordinada e interdependiente hacia objetivos compartidos) producen una mayor efectividad del equipo que los enfoques multidisciplinarios (donde varias disciplinas trabajan en paralelo dentro de sus límites profesionales). Sin embargo, la investigación sobre técnicas multidisciplinares para el tratamiento del trastorno por consumo de alcohol (TCA) en pacientes hospitalizados es limitada, ya que estos enfoques son relativamente poco comunes...

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The Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (ES-CICAD) is seeking expressions of interest from experts in the field of alternatives to incarceration and social integration to be trained as Master Trainers for the delivery of the Case Care Management curriculum internationally. Upon successful completion of the Training of Trainers, these Master Trainers will be included on the Case Care Management roster of trainers and can be contacted to deliver the training when scheduled. If interested, please submit your resume and relevant...

Dear friends and colleagues, 

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. 

Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing about that means that, you can still follow the plenaries and the side events! That’s why we thought that you might appreciate having all the links in one place.

GENERAL LINKS TO FOLLOW CND

• Link to 65th session with general information on organizational arrangements: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/65_Session_2022/65CND...