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Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO) About 296 million people aged 15-64 had used psychoactive drugs in 2021 and about 39 5 million people are estimated to be affected by drug use disorders (harmful pattern of drug use or drug dependence) It is estimated that about 0 6 million death annually are attributable to drug use with about 420 000 male and 160 000 female deaths
WHO Drug Information Launched in 1987, WHO Drug Information communicates the latest international news and trends to regulatory agencies, academic and training institutions, researchers, consumer bodies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and focuses on topics impacting the safety, efficacy and quality of medicines, medical products, herbals and biomedicines
Drug use and road safety - World Health Organization (WHO) The Unit works globally to improve health and well-being of populations by articulating, promoting, supporting and monitoring evidence-informed policies, strategies and interventions to reduce the burden associated with alcohol, drugs and addictive behaviours
UN Commission approves WHO recommendations to place psychoactive . . . The recommendations were developed by WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence--ECDD, which consists of global experts analyzing health risks and benefits of psychoactive substances circulating on global markets and alerting to include them under international control if evidence found that their use can cause harm for population health in
Over 3 million annual deaths due to alcohol and drug use, majority . . . A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2 6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4 7% of all deaths, and 0 6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use Notably, 2 million of alcohol and 0 4 million of drug-attributable deaths were among men
WHO updates guidelines on opioid dependence treatment and overdose . . . Out of 600,000 deaths attributed to drug use, about 450 000 are due to use of opioids according to the latest WHO estimates It is crucial that people with opioid dependence and those at risk of opioid overdose have access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and care, which are of good quality, affordable, ethical and evidence based
WHO updates list of drug-resistant bacteria most threatening to human . . . “By mapping the global burden of drug-resistant bacteria and assessing their impact on public health, this list is key to guiding investment and grappling with the antibiotics pipeline and access crisis," said Dr Yukiko Nakatani, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance ad interim “Since the first Bacterial Priority
Lexicon of alcohol and drug terms - World Health Organization (WHO) This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most neutral and descriptive term for the whole class of substances, licit and illicit, of interest to drug policy ‘Psychoactive’ does not necessarily imply dependence-producing, and in common parlance, the term is often left unstated, as in ‘drug use’ or ‘substance abuse’
WHO announces landmark changes in treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis (TB)- Module 4: treatment and care, consolidating all previous guidelines into a single comprehensive document and introducing significant improvements in treatment options for people with multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR RR-TB)