Access to Medicines and Health Products - World Health …
The control of psychotropic substances, including new psychotropic substances (NPS) and those with medical purposes, can be essential to prevent abuse, misuse and dependence. However, as many controlled substances have continued medical use, access for …
Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年6月25日 · Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes, e.g. cognition or affect. This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most neutral and descriptive term for the whole class of substances, licit and illicit, of interest to drug policy.
Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)
Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes, e.g. cognition or affect. This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most neutral and descriptive term for the whole class of substances, licit and illicit, of interest to drug policy. ‘Psychoactive’ does not necessarily imply dependence-producing, and in common ...
Guidance on the WHO review of psychoactive substances for …
2010年4月2日 · These Guidelines govern the evaluation of substances for WHO's recommendations to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) as required by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971. This publication provides a comprehensive overview for all those who are involved in the evaluation process.
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification
In many ATC main groups, pharmacological groups have been assigned on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th levels allowing drugs with several therapeutic uses to be included, without specifying the main indication. For example, calcium channel blockers are classified in the pharmacological group C08 (see classification of verapamil below), which avoids ...
Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)
In eastern Europe, 70–90% of all people acquiring HIV infection are people who inject drugs and, in the European Region as a whole, injecting drug use leads to most new cases of hepatitis C. In 2004, 45 000 deaths due to illicit drugs were recorded in the European Region and 2.4 million DALYs were lost because of disability and mortality.
Drugs EURO - World Health Organization (WHO)
2013年3月19日 · Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes, e.g. cognition or affect. This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most neutral and descriptive term for the whole class of substances, licit and illicit, of interest to drug policy.
WHO joins 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
2024年3月28日 · The 67 th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), took place in Vienna from 14–22 March 2024, including the high-level segment (14–15 March) which aimed to review progress made in the implementation of international drug policy commitments. The high-level ...
WHO recommends 8 harmful New Psychoactive Substances be …
2020年12月4日 · The Committee also recommended that 3 synthetic benzodiazepine drugs, clonazolam, flubromazolam, and diclazepam be placed under international control as psychotropic substances. These three benzodiazepines are sometimes sold as falsified pharmaceutical benzodiazepines and have been associated with deaths and sometimes have been used in drug ...
Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours - World Health …
1994年11月3日 · This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most neutral and descriptive term for the whole class of substances, licit and illicit, of interest to drug policy. ‘Psychoactive’ does not necessarily imply dependence-producing, and in common parlance, the term is often left unstated, as in ‘drug use’ or ‘substance abuse’.