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New EMCDDA report underlines need to scale up drug services in prisons

25.06.2021

Current insights and future challenges on drugs and prison in Europe are explored today in a major new study published by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA)(1). Released on the eve of International day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, the report, Prison and drugs in Europe: current and future...

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EMCDDA releases third trendspotter study on COVID-19 and drugs

30.04.2021

In the third in its series of rapid ‘trendspotter’ studies, the EMCDDA explores the impact of COVID-19 on the drug situation and responses to it. Revisiting and reviewing findings from two studies in 2020 on the effects of the pandemic on drug use and services, the report identifies new trends and...

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Maximising access to drug treatment while minimising diversion of medications — new EMCDDA report looks at striking the balance

11.02.2021

Opioid substitution treatment (OST) is a key evidence-based tool used to manage opioid dependence and improve related health and social consequences. Yet increasing reports of the diversion and misuse of the controlled drugs used in this treatment in Europe are a cause for concern. In a new report...

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EMCDDA kicks off new wave of webinars for 2021

27.01.2021

The EMCDDA will be kicking off its 2021 programme of webinars on 3 February starting with the topic ‘Responding to drugs and homelessness: innovative approaches in Europe’. The link between long-term homelessness, problem drug use and alcohol dependence is well documented. As the COVID-19 pandemic...

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EMCDDA publishes update on the implications of COVID-19 for people who use drugs and for drug service providers

25.03.2020

What specific risks are people who use drugs (PWUD) likely to face during the COVID-19 pandemic? What services will they need? How will professionals working with this group need to adapt on the frontline? These are among the questions raised in a new EMCDDA update published today. The update is...

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Drug overdoses can be prevented — new resources released

30.08.2019

Latest estimates show that drug overdose deaths in Europe have risen for the fifth consecutive year, with a record 9 461 lives lost in 2017 (EU 28, Turkey and Norway). Reducing drug-related deaths is therefore a major public health challenge. Ahead of International Overdose Awareness Day, the EU...

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Reitox Academy: Preventing and controlling infectious diseases among people who inject drugs

29.10.2013

Preventing and controlling infectious diseases among people who inject drugs is the focus of the latest EMCDDA Reitox Academy opening today in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The two-day event gathers over 20 experts from five candidate and potential candidate countries to the EU (1). Building...

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Neglecting the social needs of drug users can undermine chances of long-term recovery

15.10.2012

Over 1 million drug users in the European Union are estimated to be receiving some form of treatment for their drug problems every year. This reflects considerable investments since the 1990s when better access to treatment became a drug policy priority. But while treatment plays a significant role...

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EMCDDA report presents latest evidence on heroin-assisted treatment for hard-to-treat opioid users

19.04.2012

A small population of chronic heroin users, once thought to be ‘untreatable’, is now benefiting from a novel type of therapy using medicinal heroin as the substitution drug. In a new report out today from the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA), experts describe the development as ‘an important clinical step...

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Hepatitis C — the 'hidden epidemic'

04.02.2004

‘A hidden epidemic’ and ‘a major challenge to public health’ – this is how the EU drugs agency, the Lisbon-based EMCDDA, describes hepatitis C in the latest edition of its Drugs in focus series, out today. The agency says that over the past few years hepatitis C has emerged as a major threat to...

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Drug injecting has a disproportionate impact on public health

19.07.2002

Drug injecting is rare and stigmatised by the public and, on the whole, by drug users themselves. But, despite this, it accounts for most of the severe health consequences of drug use in Europe today. So says the EU drugs agency, the EMCDDA, in the latest edition of its Drugs in focus series out...
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