GENEVA / WORLD DRUG REPORT

The latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that the number of adults suffering from drug use disorders has gone up disproportionately for the first time in six years and that around 12 million people inject drugs, 14 percent of those living with HIV. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:01
• Production Date: 23 June 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Subject Topical: DRUG ABUSE; DRUGS OF ABUSE
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STORY: GENEVA / WORLD DRUG REPORT
TRT: 2:01
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 JUNE 2016, GENEVA

Shotlist

1. Pan, press briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Lale-Demoz, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“There are about five percent of the adult population across the world or nearly 250 million people between the ages of 15 and 64 years that have used drugs at least once in 2014. Now what does it mean? It means that we haven’t seen any growth in the rate of drug use over the past four years when we put it in proportion to the global population.”
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Lale-Demoz, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“Another source of concern is of course heroin use, which seems to be increasing in some parts of the world rather sharply over the past two years and I refer specifically to North America and parts of Western and Central Europe and even in sort of individual countries such as Colombia. Heroin therefore continues to be the drug that kills the most people and this resurgence must be addressed urgently.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Lale-Demoz, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“We have analyzed a little bit more in detail the incidence of HIV infections not only drug injection but also the use of stimulants and that is something in countries such as Brazil and countries in South East Asia have been pressing for some time that there is an importance that stimulant use and other risky behaviors related to drug use can also increase HIV infections.”
7. Close up, typing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Aldo Lale-Demoz, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC):
“There are linkages between trans-national organised crime, it’s not not just drugs, trans-national organised crime, and conflict and violent extremism…there are. But there’s also a recognition that much, much more has to be invested in the health area, in human rights compliance and then there’s a huge, huge recognition that you will never be able to solve, I mean it’s both direct and implicit, you will never be able to control the world drug problem just by investing in law enforcement and in repression.”
10. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

The latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that the number of adults suffering from drug use disorders has gone up disproportionately for the first time in six years and that around 12 million people inject drugs, 14 percent of those living with HIV.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva today (23 Jun) Deputy Executive Director Aldo Lale-Demoz said that about five percent of the adult population across the world between 15 and 64 have used drugs at least once in 2014, “now what does that mean? It means that we haven’t seen any growth in the rate of drug use over the past four years when we put it in proportion to the global population.”

Lale-Demoz said that heroin use was increasing in some parts of the world “rather sharply” referring specifically to North America and part of Central and Western Europe and countries like Colombia, adding that “heroin therefore continues to be the drug that kills the most people and this resurgence must be addressed urgently.”

Cannabis, meanwhile, remains the most commonly used drug at the global level, with an estimated 183 million people having used it in 2014. The report notes that men are three times more likely than women to use cannabis, cocaine or amphetamines, whereas women are more likely than men to engage in the non-medical use of opioids and tranquilizers.

Lale-Demoz said the report also analyzed the incidence of HIV infections not only with injecting drugs but also with the use of stimulants. Brazil and countries in South East Asia have been “pressing for some time that there is an importance that stimulant use and other risky behaviors related to drug use can also increase HIV infections.”

He said that there are linkages between trans-national organised crime, “it’s not not just drugs”, and that there needs to be recognition that “much, much more has to be invested in the health area, in human rights compliance” and a “huge recognition that you will never be able to solve, I mean it’s both direct and implicit, you will never be able to control the world drug problem just by investing in law enforcement and in repression.”