EU drugs agency @emcdda@respublicae.eu

We've added some interesting new titles to our Document library on a range of subjects including #NPS, #WebSurveys on drugs, #Health and #SCRAs, #cocaine, #Ireland, #Portugal, all linked to EMCDDA projects and initiatives.

Explore our Document library: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/document-library_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602994239763357696

On Monday, we were delighted to host Belgian Minister of the Interior, Institutional Reform and Democratic Renewal, Ms Annelies Verlinden, for a visit to the EMCDDA.
Learn more about the visit:
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2022/belgian-interior-minister-visits-emcdda-talks-public-safety-and-security_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602981883838697484

RT @RitaFJorge: Our paper just out on #DTA: Every #SCRA detected in Europe since 2008, and how they have changed through time. Bonus points for SI table with all the chem identifiers and formal notification dates @chem_rachael @RachYChristie @anagallegos77

https://t.co/rhjnqZDOmw

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602976716540071937

Just published: an interactive timeline showing 25 years of the EU Early Warning System (EWS) on new psychoactive substances #NPS
View the timeline here:
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/activities/ews/25-years-interactive-timeline_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602697700507541504

Just published: the latest in our series of papers on drug web surveys,
'Quantitative and qualitative assessments of data quality within the European Web Survey on Drugs'
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/insights/quantitative-and-qualitative-assessments-data-quality-within-european-web-survey-drugs_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602656257382531072

Recent #cocaine seizures illustrate that smuggling using private jets continues to be used by criminal networks. Travel regulations and security measures are not as strict as those for commercial passenger flights.

Read more in #EUDrugMarkets analysis https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/cocaine_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1602287800556175364

This week, the EMCDDA participated in a meeting ‘Early warning systems in response to opioids and new psychoactive substances’, organised by #CICAD of the Organisation of American States (OIS) and the Canadian authorities.
Learn more:
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2022/emcdda-participates-latin-american-regional-meeting-early-warning-systems_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1601183177350995968

Children whose primary carers use drugs problematically can be particularly vulnerable to health & social harms. Still, many children who live with a parent who uses drugs do not experience any harm. It is necessary to identify & address their problems. https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/families-health-and-social-responses_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1600808708841345024

#Homelessness is an intense form of social exclusion with a complex relationship to drug use. Drug services among people who use drugs and experience homelessness centre on stable housing, provision of harm-reduction services and integrated strategies.
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/homelessness-and-drugs-health-and-social-responses_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1600802514982649857

Although the retail price of #cocaine has remained stable between 2010 & 2020, purity has been increasing in Europe. In 2019, purity levels were the highest in the last decade.

#EUDrugMarkets analysis
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/cocaine_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1599720623739117568

Register now for the last EMCDDA webinar of 2022: Displaced people and EU preparedness — lessons from Ukraine

📅 Wednesday, 14 December 2022
⏰🇺🇦13.00-14.30 CET (Brussels)

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/event/2022/12/emcdda-webinar-displaced-people-and-eu-preparedness-lessons-ukraine_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1599714176615809025

Did you miss our last webinar on how #wastewater monitoring can boost preparedness for new health threats?

The recording is now available: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/media-library/emcdda-webinar-recording-how-wastewater-monitoring-can-boost-preparedness-new-health-threats_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1598588199772749824

Today, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) adopted a report creating the European Union Drugs Agency and endowing it with new competences.

Read more: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2022/members-european-parliament-endorse-broader-mandate-emcdda_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1598353170006265856

RT @isabel_mep: ✔️ My report on the creation of the European Union Drugs Agency was adopted today by a large majority in the LIBE Committee in the European Parliament. @EP_Justice @TheProgressives

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1598351141561159680

Despite falling HIV transmission rates, more than 1 in 10 new AIDS cases in the EU are still attributed to injecting drug use. What are the measures for preventing and controlling infectious diseases among people who inject drugs?

#WorldAIDSDay

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/mini-guides/drug-related-infectious-diseases-health-and-social-responses_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1598341978160353280

RT @toxicovigilance: Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) use and harms has been growing in some parts of the world in recent years.

Our new @emcdda report looks at the situation, risk, and responses in Europe…

→ https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/rapid-communication/recreational-use-nitrous-oxide-growing-concern-europe_en

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1598318633863766016

Just sent out to our subscribers' inboxes — the latest issue of our round-up newsletter, Drugnet.
In this issue: Lisbon Addictions 2022, new EMCDDA regional reports, latest analysis on nitrous oxide, Reitox video and webpage and a new accord with CEPOL.
https://mailchi.mp/emcdda/drugnet-europe-159-november2022

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EMCDDA/status/1597997467466866692