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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem
training, including in the workplace, and to enhance the capacity of teachers and other
relevant professionals to provide or recommend counselling, prevention and care
services;
19. Invites Member States to consider enhancing cooperation among public
health, education and law enforcement authorities when developing prevention
initiatives;
20. Also invites Member States to promote and improve the systematic
collection of information and gathering of evidence as well as the sharing, at the
national and international levels, of reliable and comparable data on drug use and
epidemiology, including on social, economic and other risk factors, to promote, as
appropriate, through the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the World Health
Assembly, the use of internationally recognized standards, such as the International
Standards on Drug Use Prevention, and the exchange of best practices, and to
formulate effective drug use prevention strategies and programmes in cooperation
with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Health Organization
and other relevant United Nations entities;
21. Recognizes drug dependence as a complex, multifactorial health disorder
characterized by a chronic and relapsing nature, with social causes and consequences,
that can be prevented and treated through, inter alia, effective scientific evidence based drug treatment, care and rehabilitation programmes, including communitybased programmes, and also recognizes the need to strengthen capacity for aftercare
for and the rehabilitation, recovery and social reintegration of individuals with
substance use disorders, including, as appropriate, through assistance for effective
reintegration into the labour market and other support services;
22. Encourages Member States to promote the inclusion in national drug
policies, in accordance with national legislation and as appropriate, of el ements for
the prevention and treatment of drug overdose, in particular opioid overdose,
including the use of opioid receptor antagonists, such as naloxone, to reduce drug related mortality;
23. Invites Member States to promote cooperation with and technical
assistance to the States most affected by the transit of drugs in developing and
implementing comprehensive and integrated policies to address, where appropriate,
the impact of illicit drug trafficking on increasing drug use in such States, including
by reinforcing national programmes aimed at prevention, early intervention,
treatment, care, rehabilitation and social reintegration;
24. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the
International Narcotics Control Board to continue to strengthen cooperation with the
World Health Organization and other competent United Nations entities, within their
respective mandates, as part of a comprehensive, integrated and balanced approach to
strengthening health and social welfare measures in ad dressing the world drug
problem, including through effective prevention, early intervention, treatment, care,
recovery, rehabilitation and social reintegration, in cooperation, as appropriate, with
civil society and the scientific community, and to keep the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs appropriately updated;
25. Welcomes the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization in
February 2017, which will facilitate increased collaboration and coordination
between these two entities, within their mandates, in advancing efforts to address and
counter the world drug problem, and encourages the Office to continue to strengthen
its collaboration with the World Health Organization and to explore, as appropriate,
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