Coming back refreshed from the Easter holidays, my eye was caught by two interesting, but rather worrying, items in my news feed this morning...

IDPC has now published three reports and organised a side event at CND and a high-level seminar to promote more efficient strategies to manage illicit drug markets.

There was something different in the air at this year's CND... Learn more about Donald MacPherson's insight into the 56th Session of the CND.

In February, IDPC held a meeting in the UK with some of its members to review its mission, vision and strategy for the coming three years, and to empower a group of individuals to speak on behalf of the Consortium at events and conferences.

As a response to rising levels of use, particularly in South East Asia, the CND has passed resolutions urging member states to employ national control systems to restrict the use of ketamine to medical and scientific purposes within their own jurisdictions, but INCB fails to account for the...

Check out IDPC's first reactions to the 2012 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board, released on 5th March 2012.

The meeting aimed to mend broken relationships, establish a platform for future engagement, and develop a clear action plan for the coming two years to address the concerns that had been raised.

The revised guidance provides countries with a more user-friendly framework of indicators and targets – including important new measures of the drug policy environment in which they operate.

Findings from the Ditchley Foundation's high-level meeting on drug policy.

In December 2012, individuals representing community, civil society, government and intergovernmental bodies met to engage in informal dialogue about drug policy issues in Southeast Asia and India.

In September 2012, I was invited to rapporteur for HIT’s second “Hot Topics” conference in the UK, which attracted 140 delegates from across the country.

In October the AU hosted the 5th Conference of Ministers of Drug Control.

Under the guise of opium substitution programmes the Chinese government is supporting large scale agro businesses in Northern Burma and Laos

On November 14th and 15th, we travelled to Kenya to deliver a two-day civil society workshop on how to advocate for drug policy reform.

In November 2012, the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) sent a delegation of three staff to visit the progressive harm reduction services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study visit was coordinated and funded by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and Harm Reduction International...

IDPC visits harm reduction services in inner London

In Montenegro, there is a center for the rehabilitation and re-socialization of men who use drugs, but there is no such center for women dependent on psychoactive substances. Representatives of NGO 4 Life have called twice on the Government and relevant ministries to address this problem. Why...

The 4th Latin American Conference on Drug Policy gathered academics, NGOs and policy makers to discuss the latest policies.

Malaysian progress from compulsory to voluntary treatment.

Are Indonesia’s government and civil society actors debating drug policy in parallel universes?