Resources
An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population,
used drugs at least once in 2015 (UNODC World Drug Report, 2017). Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million
of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population, suffer from drug use disorders. This means that their
drug use is harmful to the point that they may experience drug dependence and require treatment. Yet, with fewer than one
in six persons with drug use disorders provided with treatment each year, the availability of and access to science-based
services for the treatment of drug use disorders and related conditions remain limited. More than half of the world's
population resides in cities, and that proportion is to reach two- thirds by 2050. Urban policymakers and practitioners, as
well as other local stakeholders and civil society actors therefore have an instrumental role in providing drug prevention,
treatment and care.
Tools & Services
Commune
Counselling Teams (CCTs): to provide community-based counselling, treatment and rehabilitation services for drug users (Project
in Cambodia)
Guidelines
on Drug Prevention and Treatment for Girls and Women
International
Standards for The Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
International
Standards on Drug Use Prevention
TREATNET Quality Standards for Drug Dependence
Treatment and Care Services
Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills
Training Programmes for Prevention
Youth Initiative
Discussion Guide
From Coercion to Cohesion: Treating
Drug Dependence Through Health Care, Not Punishment
Reducing the Adverse
Health and Social Consequences of Drug Abuse: A Comprehensive Approach
Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training
Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention
Treatnet Training Package
Implementing
Comprehensive HIV and HCV Programmes with People Who Inject Drugs: Practical Guidance for Collaborative Interventions
Addressing
the Specific Needs of Women Who Inject Drugs: Practical guide for Service Providers on Gender- Responsive HIV Services
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care for Female Injecting Drug
Users
HIV
Prevention among Young Injecting Drug Users
Rapid Assessment and Response
Guide on Injecting Drug Use
A "Step-by-Step" Algorithm
for the Procurement of Controlled Substances for Drug Substitution Treatment
Training Guide
for HIV Prevention Outreach to Injecting Drug Users
Guide to Starting and Managing Needle and Syringe
Programmes
WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS Technical
Guide: for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users
Rapid Assessment and Response Guide
on Psychoactive Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behaviour
Policy and Programming Guide for HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Care Among Injecting Drug Users
Compilation of Evidence-Based Family Skills
Training Programmes
A Trainer's Manual
on Drug Use Prevention, Treatment and Care among Street Children
Staying
Safe - A Manual to Train Peer Educators in IDU interventions
Staying
Safe - A Manual to Train Outreach Workers in IDU interventions
Sustainable livelihoods: a
broader vision. Discussion paper on "Social support and integration to prevent illicit drug use, HIV/AIDS and crime"
Training Module on Positive Living for
Drug Users and their Sex Partners
Latest News
COVID-19 Response & Complex Emergencies - UNODC co-convened the thematic
session: 'Bolstering local action to control the pandemic and accelerate implementation' ahead of the High
Level Political Forum 2020... read
more
Urban Safety Governance Assessments in Chilanzar - UNODC’s Urban Safety Governance
Assessment is currently underway and results of the Assessment are expected in the third quarter of 2020... read
more
Newsroom
