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Bookmark or Share- Over 3 million annual deaths due to alcohol and drug use, majority ...A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0.6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use. Notably, 2 million of alcohol and 0.4 million of drug-attributable deaths were among men.
- Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) ClassificationMedicinal substances frequently have several ATC codes for various routes of administration with different therapeutic uses, for example products that contain prednisolone as a single ingredient have eight different ATC codes according to the indication (systemic and various local application formulations).
- 1.3 Drug-resistant TB - World Health Organization (WHO)Box 1.3.1: Anti-TB drug resistance: data sources and availability. There are two main sources of data about levels of anti-TB drug resistance: national surveys and continuous surveillance (i.e. routine diagnostic testing for drug resistance among people diagnosed with bacteriologically confirmed TB) (4).
- Drugs (psychoactive) - World Health Organization (WHO)About 296 million people aged 15-64 had used psychoactive drugs in 2021 and about 39.5 million people are estimated to be affected by drug use disorders (harmful pattern of drug use or drug dependence). It is estimated that about 0.6 million death annually are attributable to drug use with about 420 000 male and 160 000 female deaths.
- WHO Drug InformationLaunched in 1987, WHO Drug Information communicates the latest international news and trends to regulatory agencies, academic and training institutions, researchers, consumer bodies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and focuses on topics impacting the safety, efficacy and quality of medicines, medical products, herbals and biomedicines.
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