Greece will issue free condoms and syringes to heroin dependent users to halt an alarming rise in new HIV cases, the health ministry said on Tuesday.

Every year, UNODC poppy survey teams roam the hills of Shan and Kachin states to ground-truth satellite images and validate the cultivation production estimates on which its annual report will be based. When it is launched later in the year, the UNODC South-East Asia Annual Opium Poppy Survey...

Contrary to the impression that India is being used as a transit point by international traffickers to smuggle Afghan heroin to both Europe and the US, the United Nations drug report, 2011, has said that India is the biggest consumer of heroin. Of the 40 tonnes produced in south Asia, nearly 17...

Myanmar es el mayor productor de metanfetaminas del mundo y el segundo mayor productor de opio, lo cual le convierte en un importante ‘narcoestado’.

La Encuesta Global sobre Drogas es una encuesta electrónica anónima que investiga las maneras como personas usan drogas ilícitas tanto como alcohol, tabaco y medicamentos recetados.

Cambodia has opened the country’s first methadone-treatment programs/centers in September 2011, in approach to help heroine users. The methadone program will be strictly voluntary.

It is high time for Southern African law and policy makers to consider the utility of a harm reduction approach in dealing with the drug problem.

La Casa Blanca ha añadido El Salvador y Belice a su lista de países de producción y tránsito de drogas, con lo que ahora constan en ella, por primera vez, todos los países centroamericanos.

El nuevo primer ministro tailandés Shinawatra Yingluck, está poniendo en marcha medidas punitivas estrictas. Al mismo tiempo, la ONU muestra un aumento significativo en la producción y el consumo de anfetaminas en Asia.

This is a comprehensive assessment of the threat posed to the United States by the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs. It was prepared through detailed analysis of the most recent law enforcement, intelligence, and public health data available to the National Drug Intelligence Center through...

Los países de África oriental, especialmente Tanzania, están recibiendo cada vez más flujos de heroína, en un momento en que el continente africano parece dibujarse como una sólida ruta de tráfico de drogas hacia Europa, Norteamérica y...

The seven-member panel including doctors, a researcher, and a lecturer concluded there is insufficient knowledge about the benefits of this type of scheme.