Drug addiction

Turin, Italy, July 2020. UNICRI is implementing a research project aimed at enhancing the role of families in drug use prevention and recovery among adolescents and children.

by Alessandra Liquori O'Neil

Turin, 28 May 2020.

During the Sixty-third session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, UNICRI, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the Pompidou Group of

UNICRI Director Cindy J.

The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) will deliver a Symposium on “Addressing vulnerabilities, increasing access to services: how to mainstream gender into policy and practice of substance use preventio

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One of the objectives of UNICRI is to enhance the capacity of national governments through training and technical assistance.

UNICRI supports Governments in the formulation and implementation of monitoring systems, programmes and policies in the drug sector.

Recently, UNICRI has broadened the scope of project DAWN, to develop a major outreach activity to address gender-based vulnerability, especially related to drug addiction, and to enhance the protection of vulnerable women worldwide, with the creat

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Promoting a gender responsive approach to addiction, UNICRI, Turin, 2015.

Strengthening the ethical and human rights component of the drug control initiatives is at the basis of the collaboration that UNICRI has established with the Ministry of Health, since 1991 and, more recently, with the Department for Drug Policy o

Addressing gender differences in drug prevention and recovery The II Plenary Conference of the DAWN Project will present the project's initial results and the latest state of the art in the field of gender and addiction.

To date, there is extensive evidence of the differences between women and men regarding substance use.

UNICRI is participating in the EU-wide project “Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe: Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP)”, a five year research project which brings together participants from 43 research institutions in 25 Europea

Gender differences have been recognized as important determinant in the onset of substance abuse and other dependence behaviours.