Los diputados Ricardo Gil Lavedra (UCR), Diana Conti (FpV) y Victoria Donda (FAP) acordaron un borrador para despenalizar la tenencia de drogas para consumo personal. Estará penado tener estupefacientes si es para comercializar.

El Servicio Federal de Fiscalización de Estupefacientes de Rusia está abogando por una ley que permitiría la introducción de la responsabilidad penal por el consumo de drogas. Leer más

Mediante una iniciativa promovida por la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), 40 magistrados, fiscales, abogados defensores, proveedores de tratamiento y otros profesionales de los campos de la salud y la justicia participaron en Canadá en una formación sobre el...

Un nuevo análisis examina cómo las estructuras de poder (especialmente el uso de prisiones), más que las personas, contribuyen a la propagación del VIH.

The Orban-administration is very hostile to those minorities deemed to be deviant by the majority, for example homeless people and people who use drugs. The current Hungarian legislation is already one of the most restrictives in Europe.

The world is overly familiar with the US “war on terror” prisons like Abu Ghraib and its off-shore Guantanamo prison. Less well known or cared about is the vast complex of more mundane prisons, much of whose population is collateral damage from the equally misnamed “war on...

Ante los graves hechos ocurridos en un centro informal de atención para personas que sufren de adicciones, en el distrito de San Juan de Lurigancho, que derivaron en la muerte de 26 internos y de un trabajador de la zona, el Centro de Investigación Drogas y Derechos Humanos...

The adoption of national policies that are more aligned with the risks of different drugs and the effectiveness of controls will require the amendment of existing treaties, the formulation of new treaties, or withdrawal of states from existing treaties and re-accession with reservations.

Intercambios reflects on Rafael Bielsa´s appointment at the head of the Argentinian Secretariat for Programming Drug Abuse Prevention and the Fight against Drug Trafficking (SEDRONAR).

According to a study on 5965 persons arrested in prisons from Cordoba, federal offenses are the fourth cause of imprisonment in Cordoba, and affect persons involved in the lower ends of illegal drug markets.

There is no simple, straightforward fix to America's drug problem. Successfully combating this social challenge and reducing the toll substance abuse takes on our nation requires a broad approach that blends drug treatment, smart law enforcement and effective alternatives to incarceration. With...

The Portuguese drug decriminalisation and harm reduction model has been in place for a decade and is a proven success, but austerity measures may threaten drug treatment.