Aug 8, 2023 · About 296 million people aged 15-64 had used psychoactive drugs in 2021 and about 39.5 million people are estimated to be affected by drug use disorders (harmful pattern of drug use or drug dependence). It is estimated that about 0.6 million death annually are attributable to drug use with about 420 000 male and 160 000 female deaths.

WHO Drug Information provides an overview of topics relating to drug development and regulation that are of current relevance and importance, and includes the lists of proposed and recommended International Nonproprietary Names for Pharmaceutical Substances (INN). WHO Drug Information is published 4 times a year.

Jun 25, 2024 · A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0.6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use. Notably, 2 million of alcohol and 0.4 million of drug-attributable deaths were among men.

The Unit works globally to improve health and well-being of populations by articulating, promoting, supporting and monitoring evidence-informed policies, strategies and interventions to reduce the burden associated with alcohol, drugs and addictive behaviours.

Jan 13, 2025 · The first is regulatory issues, which can affect how medicines are bought to market, create lag times and cause the supply of medicines in some areas of the globe to be delayed long after they are available elsewhere. High prices, misuse of drugs and poor or unreliable drug quality contribute to this issue.

Drug utilization data presented in DDDs give a rough estimate of consumption and not an exact picture of actual use. DDDs provide a fixed unit of measurement independent of price, currencies, package size and strength enabling the researcher to assess trends in drug utilization and to perform comparisons between population groups.

Medicinal substances frequently have several ATC codes for various routes of administration with different therapeutic uses, for example products that contain prednisolone as a single ingredient have eight different ATC codes according to the indication (systemic and …

Dec 25, 2024 · Technical Advisory Group on Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology (TAG-ADE)Serial nr. 2024/December/190Issued on: 26 December 2024Deadline: 26 January 2025 at 24:00h (midnight) Geneva time. EXTENDED DEADLINEThe World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members one of the Technical Advisory Group on Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology (TAG-ADE). This “Call for experts” provides ...

Jan 1, 2003 · The ultimate goal of drug utilization research must be to assess whether drug therapy is rational or not. History has taught us that successful research in drug utilization requires multidisciplinary collaboration between clinicians, clinical pharmacologists, pharmacists and epidemiologists.

Extensive drug resistance (XDR): resistance to any fluoroquinolone, and at least one of three second-line injectable drugs (capreomycin, kanamycin and amikacin), in addition to multidrug resistance Rifampicin resistance (RR): resistance to rifampicin detected using phenotypic or genotypic methods, with or without resistance to other anti-TB drugs.