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)

News Alerts February 11, 2019

International Drug Policy Reform Conference 2019

6 - 9 November 2019

St Louis, MO, United States

The Conference is a biennial event that brings together people from around the world who believe that the war on drugs must end

Events 15 November 2018

Trump administration plans U.N. meeting to ramp up the International Drug War

Circumventing UN protocol, the UN has invited countries to sign a "Call to Action" reminiscent of pre-UNGASS.

News Alerts September 20, 2018

California Senate passes landmark safe consumption site bill

Building on years of community advocacy, the law aims to curb the increasing number of overdose deaths in San Francisco.

News Alerts September 17, 2018

United states: Women, prison, and the drug war

DPA suggests drug law enforcement disproportionately targets minority groups, specifically focusing on how it affects women, over men in the United States.

Publications June 12, 2018

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