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18 April 2012

Time for open, informed debate on drug policy

Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Strategic Studies agrees. At this week’s launch of Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition, IISS expert and former MI6 deputy director Nigel Inkster said a new approach was needed in which drugs were treated as an issue to be managed rather than as a problem to be solved.

17 April 2012

Drug-law reform genie freed from bottle at Summit of the Americas

As a result of the Cartagena summit, for the first time a meaningful debate on developing and implementing drug control policies that are more humane and effective is underway.

17 April 2012

Human Rights Fund

The Human Rights and Governance Grants Program supports more than 100 human rights–related organizations across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia from its Human Rights Fund.

16 April 2012

Obama Administration releases new drug policy strategy

Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy, released the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy, the Obama Administration’s primary blueprint for drug policy in the United States.

15 April 2012

Colombia calls for global drugs taskforce

The government of Colombia pushed on Saturday for the most far-reaching change to policy on drugs since US president Richard Nixon declared war on narcotics four decades ago.

15 April 2012

Shortage of Methadone in Albania

Aksion plus sounds the alarm bell about running out of their methadone stock because of delays of the next shipment procurement from USA.

14 April 2012

The cost of the 'war on drugs': Al Jazeera video

From the farmers to the traders, the cartels to the consumers, Al Jazerra video assessing the economics of the 'war on drugs'.

12 April 2012

Cartagena Summit debates alternatives to War on Drugs

The Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, is the most important meeting of heads of states where, for the first time, alternatives to prohibition will be discussed.

12 April 2012

Support fundraising campaign from Andrey Rylkov Foundation on harm reduction in Russia

The ARF launched a campaign to raise funds and buy a mobile van to reach disadvantaged young people in Moscow. The campaign calls attention to the lack of HIV prevention interventions among people who use drugs in the country.

11 April 2012

Revisão da atual política de drogas é uma prioridade para reduzir a violência contra as mulheres nas Américas

Como tem sido amplamente documentado, a violência contra as mulheres em nossos países, enraizada no sexismo e na discriminação estrutural, é aumentada pelo contexto de violência armada da região, o qual, por sua vez, está diretamente relacionado ao tráfico de drogas. Então, o combate ao aumento da violência contra as mulheres exige uma revisão urgente das políticas que proíbem o comércio de drogas.

10 April 2012

Health and crime risks to increase as UK government puts us on its “Road To Recovery”

‘Putting Full Recovery First’ is the Government’s “Road Map to Recovery” published on behalf of the Inter Ministerial Group on Drugs by The Home Office at the end of March 2012. While The Alliance welcomes government intentions to describe its approach to meeting the challenges of drug and alcohol and the joint consideration of alcohol and drugs in the document, we believe “Putting Full Recovery First” is problematic.

10 April 2012

Ukrainian families of OST patients register a national advocacy network

Recognizing that they will have a stronger voice as a single force, parents from various parts of Ukraine mobilized to form an all-Ukrainian network, “The Right to Life, ” to advocate for improved methadone and buprenorphine treatment.