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.

ANPUD finds a recent attempt to advocate for compulsory “rehabilitation” centres founded on faulty arguments and dubious research that poses a direct threat to the human rights of people who use drugs and the dignity of society at large.

State governments are increasing efforts to fight drug use and drug trafficking in a way that is once again blurring the lines between a public health focus and a law enforcement focus on the issue.

In this article, the researchers report on drug users’ views of major drug enforcement operations in their local area.

The Russian government commission on legislation has approved a bill sponsored by the Federal Drug Control Service on the forced treatment of drug users upon a court order.

Abstracts are invited for contributions to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy on drug use in post-Soviet Central Asia.

The report states that criminalization and restriction of access to health care constitutes abusive treatment based on unjustified discrimination solely related to health status.

The UNODC supported Drop-in-centres in Meghalaya offer gender specific services to female injecting drug users and female sex partners of male injecting drug users.

The injection room for drug users that opened in Vesterbro last October has been such a success that the City Council is considering opening three more in other parts of Copenhagen.

The international seminar, Health and Drug Policies: It’s Time to Change, hold on December 17th focussed, among others, on the need to integrate Health into the debate of drugs.

This Avaaz petition requests that the Brazilian Minister of Health clearly maintain his historic position against compulsory admission as a public policy.

With limited additional resources, peer-led brief interventions (SBI) for alcohol and other drug (AOD) use are feasible to conduct in South African emergency services and are acceptable to patients and emergency personnel.

Human Right centres and drugs users in India demanded to the Government standards for evidence-based, voluntary treatment for drug dependence, monitor centres and more government facilities to manage drug addiction.

The doctors’ voice has been lacking in the debate for too long and believe doctors are in a particularly strong position to advocate for much-needed change.

The guide examines therapeutic process, the exchange between client and clinician through which the work happens. It' s focus on the relationship being formed during this therapeutic process.

APDIC has now established a dedicated area within its website to provide reports and information on the Compulsory Centres for Drug Users (CCDU) Roundtables it undertakes with the UNODC, ESCAP & UNAIDS, and with the support of AusAID.

Countries in East and Southeast Asia currently detain over 238,000 people who have used drugs (or are suspected of drug use) in over 1,000 compulsory centres (CCDUs).

This systematic review was carried out to quantify the association between opiate substitution treatment and risk of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs.

This paper concludes that the Thai government has yet to develop a coherent policy based on harm reduction, to reduce such dangerously high prevalence of blood borne pathogens.