The meeting aimed to mend broken relationships, establish a platform for future engagement, and develop a clear action plan for the coming two years to address the concerns that had been raised.

The revised guidance provides countries with a more user-friendly framework of indicators and targets – including important new measures of the drug policy environment in which they operate.

Findings from the Ditchley Foundation's high-level meeting on drug policy.

In December 2012, individuals representing community, civil society, government and intergovernmental bodies met to engage in informal dialogue about drug policy issues in Southeast Asia and India.

In September 2012, I was invited to rapporteur for HIT’s second “Hot Topics” conference in the UK, which attracted 140 delegates from across the country.

In October the AU hosted the 5th Conference of Ministers of Drug Control.

Under the guise of opium substitution programmes the Chinese government is supporting large scale agro businesses in Northern Burma and Laos

On November 14th and 15th, we travelled to Kenya to deliver a two-day civil society workshop on how to advocate for drug policy reform.

In November 2012, the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) sent a delegation of three staff to visit the progressive harm reduction services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study visit was coordinated and funded by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and Harm Reduction International…

IDPC visits harm reduction services in inner London

In Montenegro, there is a center for the rehabilitation and re-socialization of men who use drugs, but there is no such center for women dependent on psychoactive substances. Representatives of NGO 4 Life have called twice on the Government and relevant ministries to address this problem. Why…

The 4th Latin American Conference on Drug Policy gathered academics, NGOs and policy makers to discuss the latest policies.

Malaysian progress from compulsory to voluntary treatment.

Are Indonesia’s government and civil society actors debating drug policy in parallel universes?

Despite the wealth of evidence supporting key harm reduction interventions such as needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) and opioid substitution therapy (OST), they remain woefully underfunded around the world.

On Monday 17th September, 2012, IDPC together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) held a high-level seminar in Bangkok co-hosted with the Thai Ministry of Justice Rights and Liberties Protection Department to discuss and review effective legal frameworks for managing drug-related problems.

Last month saw the release of the book: “The protection of children from illicit drugs – A minimum human rights standard” presented by the World Forum Against Drugs (WFAD).

An ‘informal’ debate in New York on the issue of drugs and crime as a threat to development.

Needle and syringe programmes have been proven to prevent HIV.

Adam Winstock writes on the IDPC blog about his Drug Meter.