On February 4, several government ministries appealed to President Putin with reforms that would lay off 27,000 FKSN employees and transfer the remaining 7,500 to the Interior Ministry, saving the government about $480 million.
Petitioning President of the Republic of Indonesia President Joko Widodo, INPUD Global Advocacy requests that the planned executions of those currently held on death row charged with drug-related offences in Indonesia be revoked.
The West Africa Commission on Drugs and other international organisations will meet to develop the capacity of CSOs in the region on issues related to drug policy and effective advocacy.
The prescription of medicinal heroin is a substitution programme that will help to keep severe drug users with dependency problems off street drugs and out of trouble.
With the return of Milton Romani as Uruguay’s drug czar, incoming President Tabaré Vázquez has given his clearest signal yet that he will support cannabis regulated-markets.
Uganda's persistently high adult HIV incidence is caused in part by the lack of investment in inclusive service delivery for criminalised and marginalised populations.
Drug courts that receive federal funding will no longer be allowed to ban medication-assisted treatment, which doctors and scientists view as the most effective care for opioid dependent users.