ddThe Canadian Harm Reduction Network’s dynamic new website has been launched, and we invite you to check it out, to get involved, to give us feedback and to join the Network.
The GuardianMixmag drugs survey followed last Sunday's Observer article which reported that mephedrone is more popular now than when it was banned. What is clear and confirmed in the drugs survey, is that banning mephedrone was at best ineffective. It is therefore heartening that member states at the United Nations appear to have accepted that a different route should at least be on the table.
AIDSLEX will host an Ask the Expert session on HIV and drug policy in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia to respond to user questions on the impact of the disease in the region, particularly as it relates to IDUs, and on efforts to change retrograde government policy and laws concerning harm reduction and others measures aimed at HIV prevention.
The new Indian policy on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances takes a narrow and constricted stance and fails to explore legal options that would have allowed drug related problems to be addressed more effectively.
A summary report of the expert seminar “The road to humane and effective drug policies” that took place in Siracusa/Sicily, on 24th and 25th February 2012.
The National Network of community Services for Alternative sentences in Albania organized a study visit in Estonia, with a focus on the Probation Service of Estonia and the implementation of the alternative sentences within the framework of the project "Network of Community Services for Alternative Sentence" supported by the European Union from 11 to 15 February 2012.
Every year, UNODC poppy survey teams roam the hills of Shan and Kachin states to ground-truth satellite images and validate the cultivation production estimates on which its annual report will be based. When it is launched later in the year, the UNODC South-East Asia Annual Opium Poppy Survey will perhaps be more closely reviewed than ever.
As always, the CND represents an intensive period of engagement for IDPC; preparations involved producing practical and logistical material to support the civil society presence at the event, as well as the planning of IDPC side events and strategic interventions, briefings and orientation sessions, and so on.
A conclave of Central American presidents meeting in Guatemala to discuss a major overhaul of their drug laws - including legalization or decriminalization - failed to arrive at a consensus Saturday and agreed to meet again soon in Honduras.