Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a medical marijuana bill into law, making New York the twenty-third state to allow legal access to medical marijuana for seriously ill patients.
This article outlines five alarming figures, including amount spent per year and deaths per year due to violent crime, that demonstrate the militarization of U.S. drug policy.
Recently released figures suggest that the Polish government's figures showing a drop in HIV and Hepatitis C rates among drug users in the countries could be a gross misrepresentation of the reality.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé commended Tunisia for its leadership role in the AIDS response in the Middle East and North Africa region during his meeting with President Moncef Marzouki on 20 June in Tunis.
Participants in a new rural cooperative medical programme in Yunnan province can receive partial reimbursement of their costs for methadone, as part of efforts to boost public health and social security.
Since May 2014, several Ukrainian towns in Donetsk regions have been facing new reality: gunmen, explosions, torture and killings, events that affect drug users and people living with HIV.
The Resolution of the 44th OEA General Assembly promoted by Uruguay, co-sponsored by Argentina, and supported by Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala, is about drugs and human rights.
Once the Constituent Assembly approved the pardon, 2,300 people were released, according to the Ecuadoran Public Defender’s Office. As of March 2010, the recidivism rate was under 1%.
The OAS and the Government of the Republic of Guatemala launch the initiative "The Voice of the Youth of the Americas", a creative and complementary exchange that will allow the youth to compete with concrete proposals to find new approaches to the global drug problem.