Clinics have shut down and patients have been cut loose in what could be a massive backward step in the campaign to make ketamine a registered treatment for mental illness in Australia.
More than 250 Italian lawmakers from across the political spectrum have given their support to a proposal that would largely decriminalise the production, distribution, sale and consumption of marijuana in the country.
This inventory produced by CICAD shows that governments employ a broad range of policy options to provide tailored responses limiting the use of incarceration for those who commit drug-related offenses.
Richard Branson and former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald called for an inquiry into Home Office’s support for anti-narcotics operations which they say have helped to fund executions in countries such as Pakistan and Iran.
This study, focused on six countries, found that heroin assisted treatment led to reductions in illegal drug use, crime and health care costs, without harming public safety.
This teleconference includes presentations by leading experts sharing insights on synthetic cannabinoids, “Flakka”, “Bath Salts”, and other new psychoactive substances.
The conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russian-supported separatists threatens the lives of civilian patients who have been cut off, or soon will be, from lifesaving medicines.
Providing OST alongside ART to people who inject drugs results in a significantly greater reduction in deaths compared to providing either intervention alone, a study of the Canadian province of British Columbia has shown.
A federal law that closed the gap in sentence severity for offenses involving crack cocaine and those involving powder cocaine has led to fewer federal prosecutions and a reduction in the federal prisoner population, according to a new report from the US Sentencing Commission.
100 health leaders, professionals and activists from 60 government institutions, civil society and affected communities have expressed concerns over challenges in providing access to essential treatments for HIV, tuberculosis and opioid dependence in areas of Donbas in East Ukraine.