Taking Drug Safety Seriously

Subprogramme 2. International drug control monitoring and policy making

Subprogramme 13.2 International drug control monitoring and policy making

Subprogramme 13.2 International drug control monitoring and policy making

(d) Sustainable national drug abuse monitoring systems created or strengthened

Monitoring of the radiation status of the environment and ensuring radiation safety

It cannot, however, replace systematic monitoring of a country s drug abuse situation.

28. Regular monitoring of the drug abuse situation is particularly uneven in Africa.

Closed circuit television is already widely used across industry for security and safety monitoring.

(b) Ensure adequate monitoring of all equipment and mission aircraft for potential safety hazards

Monitoring of ADR s must be more pro active. This requires more funding, which should come from the main beneficiary of drug sales the pharmaceutical industry just as oversight of aviation safety is funded by the airlines.

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European Community, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, International Criminal Police Organization

Safety was managed in accordance with guidelines from Headquarters and by specific programmes, including driver testing, road safety campaigns and monitoring and implementation of guidelines.

Above all, the success of any comprehensive effort to improve drug safety hinges upon establishing an independent office of drug safety to advocate, coordinate, and provide direction to the regulatory agenda. Such an office exists in the United Kingdom.

The observer for the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction made a statement.

Citizens and government must make drug safety a priority and commit adequate resources to fixing the problems

The plan of action concentrates on four main areas nuclear safety safety of nuclear fuel and radioactive waste monitoring of radioactive contamination and weapons related environmental problems.

The United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) launched a drug control strategy and an integrated four year programme in March 1997 comprising the following modules capacity building for drug control a drug control monitoring system poppy crop reduction and demand reduction support.

5. Monitoring of the United Nations System Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control and other coordination matters.

5. Monitoring of the United Nations System Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control and other coordination matters.

Further, UNDCP, as the main focus for concerted international action in the fight against drug abuse and illicit trafficking, will strive to increase the effectiveness of international drug control by monitoring, promoting and coordinating international drug control efforts.

In recent years, UNICEF (in partnership with WHO) has increasingly supported water safety planning, water quality monitoring and improvement programming.

Intersectoral projects will continue to support the development of coordinated drug control programmes, to concentrate on strengthening the institutional capacities of key drug control institutions and to establish monitoring capabilities.

Few countries have monitoring systems that allow them to identify and tackle drug abuse problems in an effective way.

The hazardous nature of boarding and searching, in addition to safety considerations, should be integrated into drug law enforcement training programmes.

62. The Programme has developed a drug control strategy and an integrated four year programme of assistance (1997 2000) comprising the following modules capacity building for drug control, drug control monitoring system, poppy crop reduction, demand reduction support and law enforcement.

One problem is that the consequences for neglecting drug safety are non existing or minimal. The time has come to get serious

The objective of research and analysis is to assist Member States in assessing and monitoring the world's drug and crime problems.

Penalties for drug companies failure to report and communicate safety information must be increased dramatically if they are to serve as effective deterrents

The biennial reports questionnaire is not the perfect tool for monitoring the progress of countries in relation to drug demand reduction activities.

International efforts are now focusing on working with countries to set up systems for the surveillance and monitoring of HIV drug resistance.

Evidence suggests that this is an effective way to reduce drug abuse if it is combined with supervised aftercare and objective monitoring.

108. The Academy organized symposia and lectures on the protection and safety of the environment, economic crime, trends in drug trafficking and money laundering.

UNICEF will provide technical support in countries as appropriate for the development of water safety plans and national water quality monitoring and improvement initiatives.

(a) Security and safety products, including security communications instalments, security monitoring, security assessments, security engineering, security training close protection, project based mine action support

The Group was concerned at the shortcomings in the implementation of the air safety monitoring mechanism and in visits to registered air transportation companies.

The global system of control, monitoring and reduction of technogenic pollution of circumterrestrial space in the interests of ensuring the safety of space flights

22. An important aspect of the work of UNHCR continued to be the monitoring of the safety of refugees who have chosen to repatriate.

Safety safety first?

The Commonwealth Secretariat would continue to develop city based epidemiological networks for monitoring drug abuse and other trends in Asia and, in the area of drug demand reduction, to focus on building partnerships at the community level.

The epidemiological drug monitoring system set up with UNDCP assistance has been adopted as the national standard by the Ministry of Health of Colombia.

An integrated programme of assistance has been prepared comprising the following four modules capacity building drug control monitoring poppy crop reduction and demand reduction.

CITA presented a statement on the necessity of compulsory monitoring of in service motor vehicles and their trailers at a seminar on road safety organized by the ECE Working Party on Road Traffic Safety on 23 and 24 March 1992.