heroin

Substance Use Disorder in Afghanistan: The Situation and Needs to Address the Issue

Scientific article

3 January 2024

INTRODUCTION: More than four decades of war and tragedy have destroyed most of the public infrastructure in Afghanistan. Currently, drug use is a major public health crisis in the country and drug treatment services have extremely limited...

The effects of opioid policy changes on transitions from prescription opioids to heroin, fentanyl and injection drug use: a qualitative analysis

Scientific article

21 July 2022

Background Beginning in the 1990s, non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) became a major public health crisis. In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the...

14th European Congress on Heroin Addiction & Related Clinical Problems

21 May 2021

Grenoble

France

The vision

EUROPAD exists to improve the lives of opiate non-medical users and their families and to reduce the impact of illicit drug use on society as a whole. The Association works to develop opiate ad- diction

Heroin/ Kudu

Video and audio recordings

Heroin or KUDU (in Sri Lanka) is the main illegal substance (drug) abuse by individual more than 100000 in the country. Without sufficient treatment facilities and efficient treatment workforce, the problem can lead to to many social...

The Cost of Opioid Use to Australia

News

A recent study, published by the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Curtin University in Perth, has estimated that the illegal use of heroin and the misuse of pharmaceutical opioids is costing Australia around $15.7 billion and...