The first annual review of the Drug Strategy 2010 - ‘Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug-free life’, has been released by the Home Office.
Twenty five candidates, including advertising agencies and communication professionals from all across Brazil, signed up for a competition organized by Viva Rio to select the best idea for a campaign that could change the legislation on drug policies in the country.
The adverse effects of Mexico’s militarization of its domestic law enforcement on the country’s human rights climate are so obvious that we are left wondering why Calderón’s War on Drugs strategies and Mérida assistance have not yet been radically redirected, if both Mexican and US authorities...
The new president of France, François Hollande, is not likely to change cannabis policies. His choice as Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, is a declared opponent to any reform on cannabis.
Plotting a New Course is the leading forum for the critical analysis of responses to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. Cross-cutting themes link social policy, public health, law enforcement, supply, treatment and harm reduction.
The Obama administration deserves credit for at least acknowledging the wasteful excesses of domestic drug enforcement and for taking steps to bolster treatment. But talk of a revolution in U.S. drug policy is still premature.
Naloxone should be made more widely available to tackle the high numbers of fatal opioid overdoses in the UK, according to a new report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
Portugal is increasingly suffering from the austerity measures applied to all services provided by the State. Social protection is being reduced across the board, affecting vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs.
Articles in this volume address coerced drug treatment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the INCB and ayahuasca, and the death penalty for drug in China.
Call for a UNODC consultant to support the development of a national strategy on drug dependence treatment in Viet Nam. Application deadline is 10 May 2012.
During the 2012 CND, the US Drug Czar discussed the need for national and global drug policy reform to end over-reliance on punishment and focus on prevention and treatment programmes.
In 2012, the Opium Risk Assessment is carried out in two phases similar to last year. The first phase was carried out in December 2011 and January 2012 and covered the Central, Eastern, Southern and Western region, where opium is sown in fall 2011. The second phase took place in February-March...
The concept of “recovery” within alcohol and other drug treatment is far from new, and features in the demand reduction section of the Australian National Drugs Strategy. Recent ‘recovery-oriented systems of care’ is a US-born concept that is shaping drug treatment policy in the United Kingdom,...
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy, released the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy, the Obama Administration’s primary blueprint for drug policy in the United States.
‘Putting Full Recovery First’ is the Government’s “Road Map to Recovery” published on behalf of the Inter Ministerial Group on Drugs by The Home Office at the end of March 2012. While The Alliance welcomes government intentions to describe its approach to meeting the challenges of drug and...
