Drug laws vary widely from country to country. Some nations embrace various elements of a harm reduction approach, in which drug policies are set and evaluated with the goal of reducing the harm of drugs and drug policies. A few nations (most notably Portugal) are even exploring a post-prohibition…

El Resumen Ejecutivo de la Guía sobre Políticas de Drogas del IDPC está disponible en español, inglés, francés, italiano, checo y ruso.

En el informe se documenta que la mayoría de los niños kenianos con enfermedades como el cáncer o el VIH/sida no pueden obtener cuidados paliativos ni analgésicos. El gobierno keniano ha dado un paso en la dirección correcta con el establecimiento de unas cuentas unidades hospitalarias de cuidados…

Esta recopilación de materiales de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (ONUDD) proporciona a responsables de formulación de políticas, administradores de programas, ONG y otros profesionales una revisión de distintos programas de formación de capacidades familiares de…

El documento 'Base farmacológica para el tratamiento con metadona de toxicomanías', que presenta los principios farmacológicos aplicables a los estupefacientes, y especialmente a la metadona, ya está publicado en cinco idiomas: chino, farsi, francés, inglés y ruso.

With some unlikely people now receptive to the idea that it would be good to imprison fewer people, a new book looking at failed experiments in criminal justice over the past decade or so is well timed.

In this article, Maria Lucia Karam, a retired Brazilian judge, argues that drugs should be legalised - but regulated.

Drawing upon independent evaluations and interviews conducted with 13 key stakeholders in 2007 and 2009, this paper critically analyses the criminal justice and health impacts against trends from neighbouring Spain and Italy. It concludes that contrary to predictions, the Portuguese…

The GIPA (Greater involvement of people living with HIV) Good Practice Guide contains information, strategies and resources to support programme officers in enabling meaningful involvement of people living with HIV in new and existing HIV programmes.

The Guide aims to support the scale up of community-based HIV and harm reduction programmes in developing and transitional countries. It looks at practice and research and also sets out an approach to programming at the community level where communities are fighting poverty, rapid social change,…