Matters of substance: Video series

The Drug Policy Alliance encapsulates key drug policy concepts in short animated videos.

News Alerts February 21, 2020

Criminal justice reform in the fentanyl era: One step forward, two steps back

The Drug Policy Alliance reports on the danger of the new American fentanyl laws and states that the best way to reduce fentanyl-related deaths is through evidence-based public health and harm reduction approaches.

Publications January 31, 2020

Rethinking the “drug dealer”

DPA argues the resources dedicated to punitive responses targeting suppliers mostly compound, rather than resolve, drug-related challenges.

Publications January 6, 2020

Safety first: Real drug education for teens

DPA's Curriculum aims to provide teens with honest and scientifically accurate information on drug-related matters and empower them to reduce drug-related harms.

Publications October 11, 2019

How racism and inequality are influencing the rise of legalised cannabis in the United States

Grass Is Greener is a new documentary that raises challenging questions about how the legacy of the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and racial injustice in the United States has influenced the country’s burgeoning legal cannabis industry.

News Alerts September 11, 2019

Over 100 human rights groups urge UN to demand Sri Lanka halt executions of drug offenders

Lifting the country’s 43-year moratorium would be a major human rights setback.

News Alerts June 27, 2019

Brazil Statement at HR19

The war on drugs has always been a war against people, against public health, against human rights and against science.

News Alerts May 14, 2019

POTUS Donald Trump says China has no drug problem

China Business Times

Thumbnail: Flickr, CC Evan Guest

Coverage March 6, 2019

White House priorities opioid abuse in first national drug control strategy

"It lacks imagination, urgency or any real innovation when it comes to tackling one of the biggest crises of our time -- the overdose crisis," (M.Collins, Drug Policy Alliance)