Biotechnologies and the future of opioid addiction treatments

Wolfe and Saucier argue that the success of future biotechnological treatments will rely on how the ethical considerations behind its applications will be addressed.

Publications 十二月 1, 2020

10 lessons from HIV for the COVID-19 response

Lessons include prioritising harm reduction, building trust, strengthening communities, reducing policing and avoiding blame and stigmatisation.

News Alerts 六月 22, 2020

How drug control policy and practice undermine access to controlled medicines

This publication explores how international drug conventions limit state's prioritisation of access to essential medicine.

Publications 五月 30, 2017

Seeing through the public health smoke-screen in drug policy

Csete and Wolfe warn that though a public health approach is gaining pace at the international level, many "treatments" are neither voluntary nor evidence-based.

Publications 四月 18, 2017

Russia, science, and the global war on drugs

The ‘War on Drugs’ has stemmed brutal excesses that verge on the parodic.

News Alerts 四月 25, 2016

Seventeen years after setting the wrong goal, the UN aims to get drug policy right

OSF presents four key points of consensus for the drug policy reform movement in the run up to the UNGASS 2016.

News Alerts 十二月 30, 2015

Ukraine’s deadly medicines bottleneck

The conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russian-supported separatists threatens the lives of civilian patients who have been cut off, or soon will be, from lifesaving medicines.

News Alerts 八月 11, 2015

The limits of equivalence: Ethical dilemmas in providing care in drug detention centres

For organisations offering health education, food, or even life-saving medical care inside drug detention centres, what are the limits of providing ethical care, without risking legitimising the system or building its capacity to detain more people? This report explores how organisations might…

Publications 十二月 15, 2010

In rehabilitation's name? Ending institutionalised cruelty and degrading treatment of people who use drugs

The UN’s World Drug Day on June 26th is also the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. While coincidental, the conjunction is unfortunately apt. Across the world, whether the result of police apprehension, diversion to treatment as an alternative to incarceration, or involuntary…

Publications 四月 20, 2010

Buyer Beware? Global Fund Grants and Procurement of Harm Reduction Supplies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Harm reduction organizations in these regions are confronting an influx of poor quality supplies that threatens the success of their programs. Improving the quality of supplies is an important step toward an effective and sustainable HIV response. This report, by the Open Society Institute’s…

Publications 十一月 23, 2009

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