International Co-Operation in the Field of Narcotic Drugs Relating to Treatment and Rehabilitation

Invites the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control to initiate, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and other appropriate agencies and bodies of the United Nations, actions to design models for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation,

Further invites the above-mentioned organizations to study the feasibility of establishing treatment and rehabilitation centres to care for individuals suffering from addiction and abuse and to train persons to apply the best methodologies in this field;

Invites the United Nations Development Programme and other appropriate agencies and bodies of the United Nations, as well as international or multilateral financial institutions engaged in development assistance, to co-operate with and assist the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control, in accordance with requests by Governments, in the commissioning of

Invites Governments to consider including projccts designed to promote economic alternatives for farmers and others who are dependent on illicit production of narcotic substances, as additional and intcgrated components in their econ01:nic devel_opme_nt programmes when applying ~or _tec~mcal and financia! assistance from multilateral mstttut10ns;

Requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to study at its next session the possibility of launching a mcaningful programme of international drug abuse control strategy and policies, including the possibility of integrating therein existing policies or envisaged development assistance programmes;