EMCDDA Document Library

  Filter by
 

Filter by origin:

Publication date

Category

Main subject

Keywords

Geographical scope

Document language

Displaying 1 - 6 of 6
publication cover

Substance use among the general population in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2018

May 2019

This general population survey on substance use in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018 was carried out by the Ipsos with the financial assistance of the European Union, with the support of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) - within its European Union financed IPA project...
no image available

The complex relation between access to opioid agonist therapy and diversion of opioid medications: a case example of large-scale misuse of buprenorphine in the Czech Republic

December 2018
no image available

Fentanyls: are we missing the signs? Highly potent and on the rise in Europe

July 2015

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid analgesic historically used as a pain reliever and an anaesthetic. In the European context, fentanyls are ‘low use but high risk/harm’ substances. Developments in illicit supply of fentanyls reflect the complexity of Europe's contemporary drug market; effective and...
no image available

Is the breast cancer drug tamoxifen being sold as a bodybuilding dietary supplement?

February 2014
no image available

The (mis)use of psychoactive medicines: getting the balance right in complex systems

February 2014

A brief overview of prescription opioid use in Europe.
no image available

Prescription opioid abuse in the UK

November 2013

Given that drug abuse is a worldwide phenomenon, it would be valuable to determine whether the trend of increasing prescription opioid misuse and abuse seen in the USA is developing in the UK.