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CICAD: Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
News
- Article "Considerations for drug research and COVID-19" - July 2020
- SATA Information Bulletin: Vol. No. 1, April 2020
- OID Newsletter - September 25, 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 standarized data collection methods.
Supports the establishment of drug information networks and early warning systems to improve drug-related data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
July 2020 events
Upcoming:
- Webinar on Updates on Opioids and New Psychoactive Substances. July 22, 2020. More information here.
Past:
- Launch Event of the Project on Early Warning Systems in Response to Opioids and New Psychoactive Substances: June 19 2020 rescheduled for 3 p.m. (GMT-4). Watch recording here.
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Webinar on Operation
of a National Early Warning System: July 1, 2020.
Watch recording
here.
- Agenda.
- Presentation on operation of an EWS by Leticia Keuroglian, Uruguayan Observatory on Drugs (Spanish only).
- Presentation on how to deliver alerts to the EWS by Jenny Fagua Duarte, Colombian Observatory on Drugs (Spanish only).
- Presentation on standardization of alerts and sending alerts to SATA by Juan Carlos Araneda, Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (Spanish only).
- Webinar on
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 sent to Member States by Pernell Clarke.
- Remarks on drug prevention and treatment in the context of COVID-19 by Jimena Kalawski (Spanish only).
- Presentation on The Impact of COVID-19 on Legal and Illegal Substance Use by Matthew Young and Catherine Parasid..
- Presention on Drugs During Confinement: a Look at Different Sources of Information by Jorge Villatoro.
updated on 7/10/2020 11:47:39 AM
