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CICAD: Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
News
- Article "Emerging Drugs in the Americas: New Psychoactive Substances, Including Synthetic Opioids" - October 2020
- Article "Considerations for drug research and COVID-19" - July 2020
- SATA Information Bulletin: Vol. No. 1, April 2020
- OIDatos "Examples of adulterants and their health effects" - March 2020
- OIDatos "Adulterants found in worldwide seizures of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, and LSD" - December 2019
- Publications from the CICAD/OID and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health capacity-building program (Link 1 & Link 2)
- Article By Farah Urrutia, Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the OAS (available only in Spanish)
- Report on Drug Use in the Americas 2019
The Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, commonly known by its Spanish language acronym, OID, is CICAD's research unit, providing support to OAS member states in the collection and analysis of data on the drug problem so that they can design more effective national drug policies.
Lines of Action
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Prepares and publishes reports on drug use in the Americas and supports national surveys and publications.
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Develops and disseminates standardized protocols for the collection of data and the implementation of drug related studies.
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Promotes strong national drug observatories that use standardized data collection methods.
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Supports the establishment of drug information networks and early warning systems to improve drug-related data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
2020 events
- Launch Event of the Project on Early Warning Systems in Response to Opioids
and New Psychoactive Substances - June 19, 2020.
- Watch recording here.
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Webinar
"Operation
of a National Early Warning System"
- July 1, 2020.
- Watch recording here.
- Agenda.
- Presentation on operation of an EWS by Leticia Keuroglian, Sociologist, Uruguayan Observatory on Drugs (Spanish only).
- Presentation on how to deliver alerts to the EWS by Jenny Fagua Duarte, Strategic Analysis Deputy Director, Colombian Observatory on Drugs (Spanish only).
- Presentation on standardization of alerts and sending alerts to SATA by Juan Carlos Araneda, Specialist, CICAD/OID (Spanish only).
- Webinar
"Considerations for Drug Research
and COVID-19"
- July
8, 2020.
- Watch recording here.
- Agenda.
- Presentation on Preliminary Results of the COVID-19 and Drugs Survey by Pernell Clarke, Specialist, CICAD/OID.
- Remarks on drug prevention and treatment in the context of COVID-19 by Jimena Kalawski, Chief, CICAD/DRU (Spanish only).
- Presentation on The Impact of COVID-19 on Legal and Illegal Substance Use by Dr. Matthew Young and Dr. Catherine Paradis, Senior Research and Policy Analysts, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.
- Presentation on Drugs During Confinement: a Look at Different Sources of Information by Jorge Villatoro, Coordinator, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz.
- Webinar
"Opioids in the Americas: how to identify and respond to emerging epidemics"
- July
22, 2020.
- Watch recording here.
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- Presentation "Global overview on opioids in the field of health" by Martin Raithelhuber, Head of the Global SMART Programme, UNODC.
- Presentation "Substance use in Canada: updates on the opioid crisis and emerging substance use trends" by Bridget Maloney-Hall, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.
- Presentation "The opioid problem in some Latin American countries" by Juan Carlos Araneda, Specialist, CICAD/OID. Note: it is said during the presentation that the treatment of choice is "therapy with opioid substitutes". This should have been "therapy with opioid antagonists".
- COVID-19 fact sheet from the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), referenced on remarks by Cecelia McNamara Spitznas, Senior Science Policy Advisor, ONDCP.
- Webinar
"Introduction to Training Tools on Early Warning Systems"- September
16,
2020.
- Watch recording here.
- Agenda.
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Presentation "Introduction to Training Tools on Early Warning Systems" by Graciela Ahumada, Consultant of the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID/CICAD).
- Webinar "Wastewater Analysis and Drugs"- October 28, 2020.
- Presentation "Overview from an epidemiological standpoint about wastewater analysis and drugs" by Caleb Banta-Green, Principal Research Scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington, USA.
- Presentation "Wastewater analysis and drugs: a European multi-city study" by Joao Matias, Scientific Analyst on drug use, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
- Presentation "Monitoring the monthly consumption of illicit drugs of 8.4 million people by LC-MS: is that possible?" by Viviane Yargeau, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Canada.
- Presentation "Study in the effluents of electronic parties to detect synthetic drugs and new psychoactive substances" by Eleuterio Umpiérrez, Professor, School of Chemistry, University of the Republic (UdelaR), Uruguay.
updated on 11/16/2020 6:04:55 PM
