Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11 was 1.47 times greater than the per non-Indigenous Australian in the same year.

The BC Provincial Health Officer warns that changes to sentencing and other justice practices brought about by the enactment of the Canadian SSCA will have very negative effects on the health of Aboriginal people.

The global pressure for agricultural land, the drug wars and the coup of 2009 have recently increased the human rights abuses in Honduras, especially among indigenous and peasant groups.

Association of women growers in Putumayo, Colombia, denounce the destruction of legitimate food crops produced by the aerial spraying of coca.

Human Rights Watch documented nearly 250 “disappearances” that occurred in the framework of drug on wars. In more than 140 of these cases, state agents participated directly in the crime, sometimes acting in conjunction with organized crime.

This report shows us that greater investment in drug and alcohol treatment will reduce the ever increasing number of Indigenous people in prisons.

Available in 27 languages, TalkingDrugs provides a space for people to share stories about drugs and drug policy.

This report reviews the available evidence on khat to advise the government as to the current situation in the UK.

This petition calls on the UN to provide leadership in bringing an end to the unjust and ineffective practice of aerial spraying in Colombia.

The UK government will decide next week whether to outlaw Khat, a popular drug among London's Somali community.

Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treaty’s requirement that “coca leaf chewing must be banned” was successful Friday.

Bolivia reintegrated the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs without being bound by its unjust and unrealistic ban on coca leaf chewing.

The United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Canada notified their objections to Bolivia's re-accession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation on coca chewing.

A new report suggests that Bolivia's drug policy is working, with a significant drop in coca plantings and without the violence associated with many aspects of the US war on drugs.

To help farmers pursue alternative sustainable livelihoods projects as opposed to opium poppy cultivation, UNODC is working in six South Asia countries, including Lao, PDR

Frustrated with US dictates, countries across the region are floating new ideas to curb drug trafficking, from 'soft' enforcement to legalization.

Harm reduction approaches to drug control have almost exclusively focussed on consumers in northern countries. This article supports recent analysis that indicates that such policies also hold relevance for producer countries by drawing on recent policy innovations in Bolivia.

In this detailed assessment, the EMCDDA brings together available evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of what is known about the production of and market for cannabis across the European Union.

The Eighth Informal Dialogue on Drug Policies in Latin America was held in Lima, with the support of the Drugs and Human Rights Research Center.

The National Centre in HIV Social Research and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW announce the release of a jointly produced research brief: Injecting drug use among Aboriginal people in NSW.