Reclasificación de sustancias

El primer examen crítico del cannabis por parte de la OMS

2019-06-20T10:56:02+00:00

El Comité de Expertos en Farmacodependencia (ECDD por sus siglas en inglés, o Comité de Expertos) de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) publicó en enero de 2019 los resultados del primer exame ...

El llamado a votación de la ONU sobre la ketamina podría provocar una crisis de salud pública en los países desarrollados

2015-03-10T14:30:44+00:00

La Comisión de Estupefacientes (the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - CND, por sus siglas en Inglés), con sede en Viena, decidirá pronto entre dos propuestas opuestas presentadas por China y por la Orga ...

Hoja informativa sobre la propuesta para discutir la clasificación internacional de la ketamina en la 58ª CND

2015-01-28T17:40:44+00:00

La ketamina es un medicamento esencial utilizado para la anestesia. Es el único anestésico disponible para cirugías esenciales en la mayoría de las zonas rurales de los países en desarrollo en donde ...

Auge y caída de la prohibición del cannabis

2015-03-05T10:25:46+00:00

Auge y caída de la prohibición del cannabis - Presentación hecha por Martin Jelsma el 11 de febrero de 2015 en Montevideo con motivo de la apertura de una exhibición sobre el cannabis en la casa Bert ...

La clasificación en el sistema internacional de control de drogas

2014-07-22T09:58:26+00:00

La clasificación de las sustancias tiende a dar prioridad al enfoque represivo, ello a pesar de que hoy el debate sobre las drogas destaca cada vez más la necesidad de darle más peso al principio de ...

The concept of ‘drug harms’

2010-12-28T13:48:11+00:00

In my view, perceived harms associated with drugs are vulnerable to so many restrictions on reliability and validity that, for the time being, a serious estimate of drug harm per drug is impossible. ...

El alcohol causa más estragos en la sociedad que las drogas ilegales

2010-11-05T17:11:48+00:00

La última palabra sobre drogas no está dicha. La única clasificación cierta y casi universal es la que las divide entre sustancias legales e ilegales. Y cada vez hay más expertos que ponen en entredi ...

Drug harms in the UK

2010-11-02T12:35:26+00:00

To provide better guidance to policy makers in health, policing, and social care, the harms that drugs cause need to be properly assessed. This task is not easy because of the wide range of ways in w ...

Politics and science in classifying the dangers of drugs

2011-03-14T10:31:03+00:00

There is a long history of psychoactive substances being regarded as dangerous and subsequently being banned or forbidden. Often the bans were introduced on substances new and unfamiliar to a society ...

Orientaciones para el examen por la OMS de sustancias psicoactivas en el contexto de la fiscalización internacional

2009-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Tanto en la Convención Única sobre Estupefacientes, de 1961, como en el Convenio sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, de 1971, se encomienda al del Comité de Expertos en Farmacodependencia de la Organizaci ...

TNI Expert Seminar on the Classification of Controlled Substances

2011-05-03T14:54:52+00:00

The classification of drugs has a profound impact on the lives and well-being of individuals across the world and where the classification is incorrect, people suffer unnecessarily. This is an issue ...

Estimating drug harms: a risky business?

2010-08-05T09:04:25+00:00

No one is suggesting that drugs are not harmful. The critical question is one of scale and degree. We need a full and open discussion of the evidence and a mature debate about what the drug laws are ...

Risk assessment of new psychoactive substances

2010-08-05T09:04:25+00:00

The principal aim of these guidelines is to put in place a sound methodological and procedural basis for carrying out each risk assessment. The risk assessment has regard to the health and social ris ...

Cannabis: Classification and Public Health

2010-08-05T09:16:17+00:00

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reviewed the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use and, in particular, t ...

MDMA (‘ecstasy’)

2010-08-05T09:16:17+00:00

Due to its prevalence of use, MDMA is a significant public health issue. The Council believes that criminal justice measures will only have limited effect and strongly advises the promulgation of pub ...

Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse

2010-08-05T09:04:25+00:00

Drug misuse and abuse are major health problems. Harmful drugs are regulated according to classification systems that purport to relate to the harms and risks of each drug. However, the methodology a ...

Review of the UK’s Drugs Classification System

2010-08-05T09:16:17+00:00

The UK system of classifying drugs according to their harmfulness has been in place since the introduction of the Misuse of Drugs Act in 1971. Over the past 35 years patterns of drug use have changed ...

The global political economy of scheduling

2010-08-05T09:04:25+00:00

This article explains the international context of regulation to control addicting substances that gave rise to schedules. It discusses the impact of scheduling decisions on subsequent national drug ...

Development of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971

2010-08-05T09:16:17+00:00

The 196l Single Convention did not include so-called "psychotropic substances" such as amphetamines and barbiturates among the drugs controlled. The discussions on the scope of control were focused o ...