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Drugs in focus

Drug demand reduction: global evidence for local actions

July 2012

This policy briefing considers the development of evidence-based drug demand reduction interventions. Following a definition of key terms used in the evidence-based drug demand reduction arena, the briefing then presents the main challenges involved in transferring scientific knowledge into...
Drugs in focus

Responding to new psychoactive substances

December 2011

This briefing paper describes some of the practical and legal obstacles facing Member States when responding to such new substances. It underlines the importance of national early-warning systems in detecting and identifying new substances as the first step towards assessing the risks of, and...
Drugs in focus

Khat use in Europe: implications for European policy

July 2011

Khat leaves are cultivated in the highlands of the Horn of Africa, Southern Arabia and along the East African coast. In many countries, chewing khat is an age-old tradition. More recently, the mass migration of people from the Horn of Africa has been associated with the spread of khat usage to...
Drugs in focus

Responding to drug driving in Europe

September 2009

Many of the accidents and deaths that occur on European roads are caused by drivers whose performance is impaired by a psychoactive substance. Alcohol alone is estimated to account for up to 10 000 road deaths a year in the European Union, one quarter of all road deaths. No comparable figures are...
Drugs in focus

Neurobiological research on drugs: ethical and policy implications

June 2009

This briefing paper for policymakers presents how new discoveries in neurobiology have the potential to transform our perception of drug addiction and its treatment, whilst also considering the ethical issues such treatment can raise. It balances an analysis of the latest developments in the field...
Drugs in focus

Substance use among older adults: a neglected problem

April 2008

Summary: Substance use is generally associated with young people, but such problems have no age limits. Current evidence in relation to the elderly is limited, making it difficult to estimate the precise extent and implications of this concern. However, forecasts for the coming years are troubling...
Drugs in focus

Cocaine use in Europe: implications for service delivery

November 2007

Cocaine use presents new challenges for Europe’s drug treatment services. Although services can leverage experiences gained in responding to other types of drug problems, the pharmacology of cocaine, the social diversity of users and the concurrent use of other psychoactive substances complicate...
Drugs in focus

Hallucinogenic mushrooms: the challenge of responding to naturally occurring substances in an electronic age

June 2007

Over the past decade, media interest in the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms appears to have been driven by open marketing of these mushrooms and by the legal changes made in some countries to prohibit this trade. Standard epidemiological methods for monitoring drug use can be slow to identify...
Drugs in focus

Overdose — a major cause of avoidable death among young people

January 2005

Drug-related death is a complex phenomenon that includes both deaths from overdose and deaths indirectly related to drugs, for example from diseases spread by the sharing of injecting equipment, such as AIDS and hepatitis, and from accidents, violence and suicide under the influence of drugs.
Drugs in focus

Comorbidity — drug use and mental disorders

January 2005

Comorbidity is often underestimated and underdiagnosed. Two main groups of comorbid drug users are recognised, each with distinct profiles. One group is dominated by people with psychiatric illness and the second group is characterised by drug dependency.
Drugs in focus

Evaluation of the European Union's 2000–04 strategy and action plan

April 2004

Because the drug phenomenon, its causes and consequences are both complex and serious an evaluation of policy is particularly useful in this field. In permitting a reasoned value judgement of the effects of public action, in other words, a judgement based on a scientific basis, evaluation helps...

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