Narcotic Drugs
The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralysing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the compounds found within raw opium latex. The primary three are morphine, codeine, and thebaine (while thebaine itself is only very mildly psychoactive, it is a crucial precursor in the vast majority of semi-synthetic opioids, such as oxycodone or hydrocodone). Legally speaking, the term "narcotic" may be imprecisely defined and typically has …
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CSJ: Centre for Social Justice · 3 December 2024 English
Still Ambitious for Recovery: How to address illegal drug addiction and strengthen law enforcement’s role
consumption, acquisition, and possession of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for personal use206 …
Amnesty International · 28 November 2024 English
This report details how people accused of using drugs are subject to arbitrary detention in drug “treatment and rehabilitation” centres, in a continuation of the punitive approach to the Philippines’ …
Article 24. 42 These are the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 (‘Single Convention’) – subsequently … the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. 43 Report … A/HRC/54/53, para. 3. 44 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 Protocol, Articles … world drug problem”, April 2016; Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 2019 Ministerial Declaration: Strengthening … World Drug Problem”, March 2019; Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 2024 High-level Declaration: “High-level declaration …
Manitoba Office of the Children's Advocate · 27 November 2024 English
With a steadfast commitment to social justice and equity, our office operates through a human rights-based lens, weaving the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United …
be harmful to children and youth, including narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and alcohol. 57 THE … to protect children from “the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances,” and to prevent … The right to protection from illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. In Z. Vaghri, … rights of the child, article 33: Protection from narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (Vol. # 33). Brill …
World Bank Group · 25 November 2024 English
AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 39 16. Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse … criminalizes the production, trafficking and abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. It provides guidelines …
UN: The United Nations · 13 November 2024 English
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by the 2022 resolution of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which emphasizes the need for early …
UN: The United Nations · 11 November 2024 English
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Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and the Commission on Crime Prevention and … Additionally, the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Commission on Crime Prevention and …
GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 11 November 2024 English
The worst is when someone doesn’t find the treasure and they’ll take it from your salary.’75 In a role reminiscent of the character Fagin in Oliver Twist, who schools London …
Russian representative at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs discussed the impact in his country of the … Mayeta Clark, The ice pipeline, manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, ABC News, 22 April … online video, March 2024. UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 20 March 2024, https:// 190 Interviews with …
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · 9 November 2024 English
Relevant UNODC staff based in Promoting national ownership through HQ and in the region contributed to this support for the development and process and provided their inputs and implementation of …
detection laboratory equipment. capacity of narcotic drugs Impact: Target: Low to medium, as there is … institutional UN framework (through the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
EU: European Union · 30 October 2024
money laundering, asset recovery, weapons, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances with the EU acquis …
EU: European Union · 30 October 2024 English
ePrescription by including prescriptions for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and the introduction …
