Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of This Global Issue Workshop 23-24 November 2016 Following a special wish of Pope Francis, the Pontifical Academies of Sciences is organizing a two-day Workshop on Narcotics: Problems and Solutions of this Global Issue on 23-24 November 2016. The current system to...

Air Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Presenters: James N. Hall Epidemiologist Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities Nova Southeastern University Denise Paone, EdD Senior Director of Research and Surveillance Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care and Treatment New...

CDC’s Emergency Partners Information Connection and the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention discussed the United States opioid crisis on March 27, 2019. This webinar was for community leaders, public health professionals, health educators, nonprofit organizations, and other nonclinicians who...

Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. Since 1975, the survey has measured drug, alcohol, and...

The University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) are once again joining forces to hold the sixth European drugs summer school (EDSS) on ‘Illicit drugs in Europe: demand, supply and public policies’. Registration opens today for the two-week course, which will take...

UNODC Scientific Consultation – December 2015 ADDICTION AND THE BRAIN
 Aaron White Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by a compulsion to seek and take a drug, loss of control...