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  1. UN Commission approves WHO recommendations to place …

    Mar 13, 2025 · Following recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has decided to place five new psychoactive …

  2. Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Feb 9, 2025 · Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes, e.g. cognition or affect. This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are …

  3. Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use

    Our work involves mental health promotion and the prevention of mental, neurological and substance use disorders. We support the expansion of access to affordable, quality care for everyone who …

  4. Access to Medicines and Health Products

    Overview The control of psychotropic substances, including new psychotropic substances (NPS) and those with medical purposes, can be essential to prevent abuse, misuse and dependence. However, …

  5. Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification

    In the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system, the active substances are divided into different groups according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, …

  6. Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Psychoactive drugs are substances that, when taken in or administered into one's system, affect mental processes, e.g. cognition or affect. This term and its equivalent, psychotropic drug, are the most …

  7. Sri Lanka: Essential List 2022 (English)

    Jul 30, 2024 · Publications of the World Health OrganizationHome / Publications / Overview / Sri Lanka: Essential List 2022 (English)

  8. Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

    Apr 8, 2018 · Expert Committee on Drug Dependence ECDD is a scientific advisory body to WHO that consists of an independent group of experts in the field of drugs and medicines and drug …

  9. Improving access and appropriate use of medicines for mental disorders

    Jan 1, 2017 · It examines current barriers to access to psychotropic medicines and identifies key actions for overcoming those barriers, organized as a function of four access components – selection, …

  10. WHO recommends 8 harmful New Psychoactive Substances be placed …

    Dec 4, 2020 · The Committee also recommended that 3 synthetic benzodiazepine drugs, clonazolam, flubromazolam, and diclazepam be placed under international control as psychotropic substances.