The Brazilian House of Representatives approved the Bill 7663/10, that determines the compulsory drug treatment of people who use drugs. Civil society organisations foresee with alarm a risk of imminent setback in the Brazilian Drug Policy.

En el marco de la 53a sesión de la CICAD, intercambio destacó el papel de la sociedad civil en la reformulación de políticas de drogas, en las debe destacarse el enfoque de reducción de daños.

Sign the petition that calls the European Union leaders and the Europea Comission to recommit to fighting HIV/AIDS in Europe and keep it as a priority.

User profiles of heroine in Serbia have changed since the seventies. As they are now at the margins of the society they face serious health and social discrimination, in spite of the protective laws.

AIDS is perhaps the pre-eminent example of successful investment in health: as a result of investments in HIV, mortality from AIDS and the number of new infections have decreased worldwide by 25 per cent in just the past five years.

Los dos informes sobre políticas de drogas entregados por la OEA a los presidentes de las Américas están teniendo repercusión a nivel global. Vean aquí un monitoreo de medios.

A field conducted research shows that patients with treatment-resistant saw dramatic improvement in their illness after treatment with ketamine.

Colombia considera la despenalización del consumo de sustancias psicoactivas, coincidiendo con los informes de la OEA.

The main objective of the report is to inform the harm reduction strategy for Clondalkin, Ireland, to inform strategies to preventing blood borne virus transmission among the people who use drugs.

Three bills have recently been deposited by a coalition of Italian NGOs to tackle prison overcrowding related with drug offenses.

In an open letter, former Latin American leaders call for legal regulation to help undermine organised crime in a context of drug law reform.

ONGs españolas auncian un posibler incremento de los problemas derivados del consumo de drogas debido a los recortes sociales.

The West African Commission concluded that is time to face the fact that narcotic drugs are increasingly being consumed in West Africa, which no longer simply serves as a transit point.

APDES argues against the recent ban of legal highs, claiming that a prohibition-only approach will increase the scale of the underground black market for these substances.

La revisión fue encomendada por los Jefes de Estado en la Cumbre de las Américas 2012. El nuevo estudio enriquecerá el ya animado debate hemisférico sobre las alternativas en materia de políticas de drogas.

La OEA acogió un Foro Hemisférico de actores sociales, donde se adoptaron recomendaciones de cara a los debates de la próximas Asamblea General sobre drogas.

Un grupo de asociaciones marroquíes ha presentado ante el parlamento una proposición de ley para legalizar el cultivo del cannabis o kif,

A letter in favour of the decriminalisation of people who use drugs was handed was handed to the Brazilian National Congress by more than 100 evangelical leaders.

Sao Paulo State has launched a programme that will provide subsidies to rehabilitate dependent on crack cocaine at private treatment centres.