The HCLU is producing seven thematic movies on the seven major costs of the war on drugs. This film features one of them - the promotion of stigma and discrimination.
This report has been compiled by the EMCDDA in the first half of 2011 as a supporting document for the external evaluation of the 2005–12 EU drugs strategy and its two 2005–08 and 2009–12 action plans.
Welcome to the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide. The Guide brings together global evidence and examples of best practice to provide guidance on the review, design and implementation of national drug policies.
IDPC, HRI and INPUD are pleased to announce the awarding of a joint grant from the UK Department for International Development, which aims to create national and international legal, policy and funding environments that promote the implementation and scale up of HIV prevention, treatment and...
The summer school covered the following issues: drug policy and advocacy, substitution therapy, overdose related problems, protecting the rights and interests of women drug users in harm reduction programmes.
Alternative development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocates and detractors debating whether such programmes contribute to decreasing the cultivation of llegal crops. However, little is known about the...
In the second episode of a two-part series, Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines team find out how campesino communities caught in the narco-economy are resisting repression and dispossession.
In the second episode of a two-part series, Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines team find out how campesino communities caught in the narco-economy are resisting repression and dispossession.
Члены Комиссии договорились о четырех основных принципах, которые должны лечь в основу национальной и международной политики и стратегии в отношении наркотиков, и приняли одиннадцать рекомендаций относительно дальнейших действий.
This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the first pilot Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in Britain. FDAC is a new approach to care proceedings, in cases where parental substance misuse is a key element in the local authority decision to bring proceedings. The study is...
The 54th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place from 21st to 25th March 2011. A number of organisations that participated to the meeting share their impressions of the event in reports, blogs and videos.
This toolkit was created to educate the public about evidence-based drug policy, increase media interest in drug policy reform and build political support by getting local and national governments to endorse the Vienna Declaration and join the call for evidence-based drug policy.
Last January, IDPC organised its first drug policy seminar in the Middle East and North Africa region, in collaboration with its local partner, the National Rehabilitation Centre, in order to generate constructive discussions and sgare experience on drug policy, and to discuss the possibility to...
The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from the enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to count these costs and explore the alternatives, using the best evidence available, to deliver a safer, healthier and more just world.
The Global Commission on Drug Policies has issued a series of background documents on drug policy, in an effort to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and society.
The purpose of the Commission is to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and societies.
From the 2nd to 4th January 2011, over 100 delegates from across the region gathered in Abu Dhabi to attend a seminar, marking the launch of the IDPC/NRC regional drug policy network in the Middle East/North Africa.
