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.

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A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou o texto-base do projeto que altera a Lei de Drogas, permitindo a internação involuntária de dependentes químicos et aumentando de 5 para 8 anos de cadeia a pena mínima para o traficante.

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.

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

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.

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.

“Support. Don’t Punish.” is a global advocacy campaign that aims to raise awareness of the harms caused by the criminalisation of people who use drugs.

On Friday, May 17, in Bogotá, Colombia, OAS Secretary General presented the outcomes of the drug policy review conducted in the Americas.

The OAS hosted a Hemispheric Forum on Anti-Drug Policy in the Americas where recommendations were adopted to inform debates at the upcoming General Assembly on drug policy.

Um manifesto favorável à descriminalização de usuários de drogas, assinado por mais de 100 líderes evangélicos, foi entregue ao presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Henrique Eduardo Alves.

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

In a meeting held in Lisbon, health and drug policy experts concluded that drug wastewater analysis will shape future public health initiatives.

The Georgian government is considering legalising marijuana in the country, in an effort to reduce the number of drug-related crimes.

The aim of this platform is to provide easy access to strategic reports, global guidance, and tools relevant to HIV programming for young people.

Especialistas internacional entregarão esta semana à presidente Dilma Rousseff, ao Congresso Nacional e ao Supremo Tribunal Federal uma carta contra o projeto de reforma na lei nacional antidrogas, em tramitação na Câmara.