INCB. Hidden epidemic of drug use among older people highlighted by International Narcotics Control Board's Annual Report 

In its 2020 Annual Report, the International Narcotics Control Board:

highlights a global hidden epidemic: 

the use of drugs among older people;

addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to medicines, prevention and treatment services for people with mental health and substance abuse disorder, and on the illicit drug market;

expresses concern about the number of overdose deaths from methamphetamine and synthetic opioids and about the developments relating to the non-medical use of cannabis;

notes its ongoing concern about the high level of illicit production of opium in Afghanistan in 2020;  

urges governments to apply proportionate responses to drug-related offences based on the rule of law and human rights;  

marks the 60th and 50th anniversaries of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances with a special report, stresses need for universal implementation. (INCB, UNIS/NAR/1435, 25.03.2021)

https://www.incb.org/incb/en/news/press-releases/2021/hidden-epidemic-of-drug-use-among-older-people-highlighted-by-international-narcotics-control-boards-annual-report.html