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18 May 2011

Avaaz launches global drug policy campaign

Avaaz has launched a major campaign on drug policy. The campaign aims to gather 1 million signatures calling on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to set out a new direction for national and international policies on controlled drugs. The petition will be presented to the UN in New York on 2 June, to coincide with the publication of the report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The campaign's core messages are: The war on drugs has failed Alternative approaches are feasible It is high time to break the taboo and pursue a new direction Read the Avaaz statement and support the campaign!
19 May 2011

Poland inches closer to evidence-based drug policy

Ten years after introducing one of Europe's most draconian drug laws, the Polish Parliament has voted to amend it, in an effort to draw a greater distinction between drug user and drug dealer.
19 May 2011

Take action now: support 'Zero Draft'

The “zero draft” civil society declaration was developed by national, regional, global and constituency-based organisations to assist in coordinating civil society advocacy with UN member States at the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York next June.
23 May 2011

Better safe than sorry in addiction research

In a commentary in The Lancet medical journal, Daniel Wolfe and colleagues called into question the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to approve the efficacy of once-monthly, injectable form of the medication naltrexone for opioid users based on one trial in Russia.