Community-based organisations play a crucial role both in overcoming the fear of stigma and discrimination and in advocating for harm reduction and human rights.
As lockdown restrictions deepen inequalities and increase the risk of already vulnerable communities, homeless people who use drugs struggle to survive.
Thousands of children have endured lasting physical, emotional and economic damage after their parents have been killed as a result from President Duterte's bloody "war on drugs".
Ideas and misconceptions about drugs, addiction and criminality mean that derivative moral judgements and racialised logic about "criminals", as opposed to facts about drugs, is shaping drug policy.
The future of the WHO recommendations on the scheduling of cannabis-related substances might be decided behind closed doors, in the run-up to the CND reconvened session.
This first community-based harm reduction, treatment and care project in Myanmar aims to show that supporting people who use drugs is far more effective than punishment.
The criminalisation of sex work and drug use disproportionately affects sex workers in the LGBTQ+ community by increasing the incidence of assaults and fatal overdoses and exposing them to unsafe prison conditions in these times of COVID-19.