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1 April 2012

Giving hope to drug users in Moscow

The HCLU visited Moscow last year and produced a movie to promote the work of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, the only NGO that provides clean needles for drug users in Moscow. The ARF gets no funding from the government – please help them to buy a van to improve their street outreach activities!
3 April 2012

Radio panel discussion: Drug law reform Australia

The war on drugs has failed and Australia should consider legalising some substances, according to a new report backed by some eminent Australians. A recent national radio discussion took place on drug policy reform.
9 April 2012

Drugs: The Debate Goes Mainstream

A paradigm shift, combining repression of the violent drug trade with increased investments in treatment and prevention, would be the best contribution that Latin America could make to global reform of drug policies.
9 April 2012

Review of the current anti-drug policy: a priority to reduce violence against women in the Americas

The Sixth Summit of the Americas is an opportunity for States to show their compromise with human rights and, in particular, the guarantee of women’s rights in the Latin-American region, opening the debate on regulation of legal trade in drugs. The review of the current drug control policy is therefore a matter of human rights and should be an unavoidable obligation for democratic States.
9 April 2012

Chronicle of a Debate Foretold - Drugs on the Latin American summits

Political divides in the Central American region around drug control surfaced sharply at the recent regional summit on “New Routes against Drugs Trafficking”, that took place on Saturday 24 March in Guatemala. Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina called for an open debate on the security crisis and on policies to reduce the rampant drug-related violence, stating that current policies have been so ineffective that all options including the ‘depenalisation’ of drugs should be on the table.
9 April 2012

Georgian Minister of Interior: Don't Prosecute for Overdose Help

For years, emergency services staff summoned to the site of an overdose in Georgia have called the police to ascertain whether criminal charges should be laid. The practice has discouraged drug users from seeking medical treatment, and recently moved the Georgian Harm Reduction Network to ask the Minister of Interior, Vano Merabishvili, to amend the policy to protect the lives of those overdosing and those who helped resuscitate them.
10 April 2012

Health and crime risks to increase as UK government puts us on its “Road To Recovery”

‘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 alcohol and the joint consideration of alcohol and drugs in the document, we believe “Putting Full Recovery First” is problematic.