Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse

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Delivery Systems for Substance Abuse
Treatment Istanbul, September 2005
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Overview

• MENA region treatment data
• Interpretation
• Information initiatives
• MERC
• WHO
• GAP

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Data Coverage

• MENA region - global process
• Drugs of treatment - ranked
• Trends in treatment demand
• Estimated number of people
• Age and gender profile
• Injecting drug use

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Data Highlights (2001-2003)

• Substance
• Heroin, Cannabis, benzodiazepines, ATS, cocaine
• Trends in treatment figures
• Examples Lebanon, Tunisia, UAE
• Age and gender profile
• Females 12-15 (Lebanon) 2 (Kuwait)
• Treatment injecting drug use

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Data Interpretation

• Insufficient Data
• Non-respondents
• Expert opinion
• Context
• Diffiicult to apply towards service and policy
• Recommendation
• Integrated Drug Information Systems

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Information Initiatives

• MERC
• Egyptian pilot data collection system for private
  centers
• WHO
• Desk review of available data on drug use
• UNODC
• Global Assessment Programme (GAP)

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Drug Information Systems

• System
• Input , Process, Output
• Communication network
• Components linked externally and internally
• Comprises treatment and other data
• On the ground
• Jordanian network established August 2005

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• Thank you