Together, the three case studies underscore the importance of applying tailored methods to better reach and meet the needs of women who use drugs and of supporting women themselves to participate meaningfully in the programme design, implementation, and evaluation.
As almost all coca leaf markets have been disrupted by the pandemic situation and prices have fallen, coca growers throughout the Andean region are in dire need of assistance.
While repressive drug policies have weaponised the state against communities of colour, it is sadly crucial to remember it was in part designed to do just that.
As prisons in South East Asia are dangerously overcrowded, the release of prisoners incarcerated for drug offences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is a matter of life and death.
Tandon recounts how India's decision to impose a lockdown, forcing people who use drugs to go through withdrawals without treatment, can result in tragic deaths, highlighting the need for a policy change.
We must ask ourselves: How realistic can the AIDS Free Africa agenda be if we leave behind a whole key population? People who use drugs are being relegated to the margins.
This powerful account of women's life stories sheds light on the shared patterns of abuse that women who use drugs experience throughout their lives, and most violently, through their time in treatment and rehabilitation centres in Mexico.
By Corina GiacomelloCentro de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México
In a context of scarce transparency and accountability on the impacts of drug control, civil society proposes better tools for monitoring and assessment.
Overdose deaths are skyrocketing, especially in North America and Northern Europe. This alarming situation calls for increased funding to harm reduction approaches that empower communities.
In a joint statement, released by the mother’s group and the Legalize Belarus civil movement on 30th May, activists identified a number of key points for meaningful drug policy reform.
Today, we stand together from Amsterdam to Nairobi to Buenos Aires to New York to Bangkok and raise our collective voices that will not be silenced to loudly clamour for an end to repression and punishment as instruments of drug control.
