EU drugs agency @emcdda@respublicae.eu

Women make up around a quarter of all people with serious drug problems in Europe & one-fifth of all entrants to treatment. Yet many drug services remain male-oriented. Our new miniguide highlights the need to scale up gender-sensitive services:

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/women-and-drugs-health-and-social-responses_en
#IWD23

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1633408569113550850

Register now for the next EMCDDA webinar on 'Responding to stimulant use: developments in treatment responses'!

📅 22 March 2023
⏰13.00-14.30 CET (Brussels time)

More information and registration 👉 https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/event/2023/03/emcdda-webinar-responding-stimulant-use-developments-treatment-responses_en

#HealthierEurope #stimulants #treatment #webinar

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1633133677398876161

Yesterday, our Scientific Committee re-elected its Chair @ComiskeyCath & Vice-Chair @HenriBergeronSP & welcomed four new members. The Committee is composed of 15 high-level scientists from EU Member States, selected based on scientific merit & independence https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/emcdda-announces-changes-its-scientific-committee-line_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1631623318678773761

Our February Drugnet Europe news round-up is out today. In this issue: EMCDDA work programme for 2023-25, visit to the Port of Antwerp, European Drugs Summer School bursaries, new resources and much more!

https://mailchi.mp/emcdda/drugnet-europe-162-february2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1630226557947002882

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We #StandWithUkraine !

Take a look at the ‘EMCDDA 4 Ukraine – Health Preparedness Hub’ for professionals working in the drugs field in Europe supporting people displaced from Ukraine: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/toolkits/EMCDDA4Ukraine_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1629156831003127808

Just published! Our three-year work programme for 2023–2025. Key activities this year include: preparing the organisation for a new mandate, serving our customers with timely analysis on hot topics & furthering our digital-first communication approach

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/new-emcdda-work-programme-prepares-agency-significant-changes-ahead_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1629135385044434945

Bursaries for the 2023 European Drugs Summer School are being offered through EMCDDA’s EU4Monitoring Drugs II project. Professionals, academics or experts from the European Neighbourhood Policy area are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 29.05.2023

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/eu4md-ii-bursaries-2023-european-drugs-summer-school_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1629086038659416064

Bursaries covering the registration fee for the 2023 European Drugs Summer School are being offered through the EMCDDA’s partnership with COPOLAD III

Who: Professionals, academics & experts from Latin American & Caribbean countries
Deadline: 7 March 2023
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/bursaries-students-and-professionals-latin-american-and-caribbean-countries-2023-european-drugs-summer-school_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1627680638143811584

Did you miss the EMCDDA webinar on 'Methamphetamine in Europe — past and present' this week? You can now watch the recording: https://youtu.be/JfDhpLh5rzA #methamphetamine #HealthierEurope

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1626513721076883456

RT @NIDAnews: The NIDA International Program invites abstract submissions from researchers around the world to present their drug use & addiction research at the virtual 2023 NIDA International Forum. Read more and submit abstract by 2/20! https://nida.nih.gov/international/meetings/international-forum/2023-nida-international-forum?utm_source=online&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=2023forum

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1626277970968031235

Today, @EU_CEPOL Executive Director, Montserrat Marín López, paid her first visit to the EMCDDA to find out more about our work.

The agencies signed an accord last year to boost learning in the area of security: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2022/emcdda-and-cepol-sign-new-accord-boost-learning-security-issues_en#MoreSecureEurope #training

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1626275206481289218

RT @Filipa_A_C: Faster uptake of effective interventions in #prisons is the key message from @emcdda @linda_montanari @WHO_Europe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1626178924500639746

RT @FIIAPP: 🔴 DRUGS | Europe & Central Asia cooperate to train experts in collecting and analysing drug data.

📊@emcdda and #FIIAPP have signed a work plan to train and update the knowledge of experts in charge of recording and analysing data on addictions.

@CADAP7 @PNSDgob

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1625906022698168340

We signed a working arrangement with @FIIAPP in Madrid today on the implementation of activities under the latest Central Asia Drug Action Programme @CADAP7. These include facilitating knowledge exchange between experts & offering internships at the EMCDDA https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/europe-and-central-asia-cooperate-train-experts-collecting-and-analysing-drug-use-data_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1625904987774545920

The online European Drugs Winter School kicked off this week and has welcomed 21 participants from around the world.
The two-week course is dedicated to ‘Displaced populations and drug-related issues’. https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/event/2023/02/european-drugs-winter-school-edws_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1625878903536353281

What is a needle and syringe programme? How is it used to respond to drug-related infectious diseases? Learn more in our miniguide on health and social responses to drug-related infectious diseases: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/drug-related-infectious-diseases-health-and-social-responses_en #HealthierEurope #harmreduction #infectiousdiseases

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1625797534009499648

There is still time to register for tomorrow's webinar on #methamphetamine in Europe:

📢Methamphetamine in Europe: past and present
📅15 February 2023
⏰13.00-14.30 CET (Brussels time)

👉https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/event/2023/02/emcdda-webinar-methamphetamine-europe-past-and-present_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1625478502983016450

What are drug consumption rooms? How are they used to respond to opioid-related deaths? Learn more in our miniguide on health and social responses to opioid-related deaths: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/opioid-related-deaths-health-and-social-responses #HealthierEurope #drugconsumptionrooms #harmreduction #opioids

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1623606434687598592

On 8 February, 30 years ago, the EMCDDA’s founding regulation was adopted. This was a key milestone in the history of European action on drugs and symbolised a major political decision to build drug policies on scientific evidence rather than on ideology. https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2023/emcdda-found-regulation-30-years-ago_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1623266690258575360