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October 20, 2017

INCB presents at the WHO’s Global Conference on NCDs

MOTEVIDEO/VIENNA, 19 October 2017 - The International Narcotics Control Board's (INCB) President, Dr. Viroj Sumyai, addressed the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)....[Read More]

October 19, 2017

INCB participates in the World Health Organization’s Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases

MONTEVIDEO/VIENNA, 18 October (UN Information Service) - The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr. Viroj Sumyai, is calling on States to close the "global pain divide"... [Read more]

October 18, 2017

INCB: Scheduling of fentanyl precursors comes into force

VIENNA, 18 October (UN Information Service) - Effective today, two precursors of fentanyl, ANPP and NPP, have been included in Table I of the Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 and thus placed under international control, following the decision of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March this year... [Read more]

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Viroj SUMYAI
INCB President

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The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under the former drug control treaties as far back as the time of the League of Nations.