This report presents the findings of an opium risk assessment carried out in Afghanistan and focuses on the trends of opium cultivation in different provinces of the country.

Several Canadian cities are planning to open safer consumption services in their communities.

In Burma poppy cultivation grew 17% last year, according to UNODC and around 300,000 households in the country are currently engaged in its cultivation, Burma is now feeling increased pressure to tackle its drugs problem.

It is distressing that US media continue to vilify mothers who need and those who receive treatment for their opiate dependence. This open letter by International Doctors for Health Drug Policies (IDHDP) calls the media and policy makers for a more scientific approach.

Methadone advocates in China’s Dehong prefecture have successfully advocated for a 50 percent reduction in the cost of the medication.

The University of Aberdeen and NHS Health Scotland have launched a study to identify facilitators and barriers for General Practitioners to engage effectively with the naloxone programme in Scotland.

The Joint UNODC-WHO Programme on Drug Dependence Treatment and Care is a milestone in the development of a comprehensive, integrated health-based approach to drug policy.

Five ukrainian government agencies have recently adopted an inter-ministerial order that ensures access to opiate substitution therapy by patients at police detention centers and pre-trial detention settings.

This report contains the results of the UNODC-supported opium poppy cultivation surveys in Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar.

Opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar rose for the sixth consecutive year, despite a significant increase in Government eradication efforts, according to this UNODC report.

The number of Afghan families growing cannabis as a cash crop leapt by more than a third last year, the UN has said.

The cultivation of poppies has increased year-on-year since 2007, despite promises from Naypyidaw that it'll eliminate the practice by 2014, while militias operating in the mountainous east continue to pump out millions of methamphetamine pills each year, leading some experts to warn that...

The Japan’s approach to drug trafficking and consumption has, from its very outset, applied a stringent criminalization and punishment approach to even the smallest infractions.

This briefing paper examines existing laws and policies which affect drug policy and harm reduction in India.

For the first time, the drug czar has supported broadening access to naloxone, the life-saving prescription drug that immediately reverses overdoses of heroin and prescription painkillers.

Insights on the global drug problem and the instructive American experience of Prohibition.

To help farmers pursue alternative sustainable livelihoods projects as opposed to opium poppy cultivation, UNODC is working in six South Asia countries, including Lao, PDR

This multisite clinical trial lays groundwork for improving care for mothers and babies affected by opioid dependence.

Following the first warning of the outbreak in Greece, the EMCDDA commissioned a rapid analysis of the situation with regard to the latest epidemiological data and prevention measures being taken.