The United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy and Canada notified their objections to Bolivia's re-accession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation on coca chewing.
A new report suggests that Bolivia's drug policy is working, with a significant drop in coca plantings and without the violence associated with many aspects of the US war on drugs.
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that distribution of naloxone to one in five heroin users in the United States could prevent as many as 43,000 deaths.
The international seminar, Health and Drug Policies: It’s Time to Change, hold on December 17th focussed, among others, on the need to integrate Health into the debate of drugs.
Although this year’s survey shows that there were no statistically significant increases in use over last year, over a 6-year period, there have been some troubling increases in youth drug use.
The goal of balanced drug policy was revealed to be more rhetoric than reality with the release of the first set of national profiles on drug-related public expenditure by the EMCDDA.
The government decided to change strategy in its drug eradication campaign by no longer treating drug users as criminals and instead focusing on a stepped-up harm reduction program.
ARF plans to purchase and maintain a mobile van to provide lifesaving health services to 1000 young disadvantaged drug users on the streets of Moscow, Russia. Please support them!