Jarryd Bartle explores the UK’s slow progress to implement the use of Drug consumption rooms (DRC) which from an evidence based perspective have reduced drug-related deaths and reached out to otherwise marginalised populations.
The EMCDDA identifies the wide range of factors to address, and challenges to tackle, in order to successfully implement substance use prevention programmes and policies.
The Guidelines highlight the measures States should undertake or refrain from undertaking in order to comply with their human rights obligations, while taking into account their concurrent obligations under the international drug control conventions.
The UN system coordination Task Team takes stock of the impact of drug policies and offers recommendations to improve outcomes in view of the 2019 Ministerial Segment.
Cannabis Innovate argue the legal regulation of cannabis should not entail a corporate capture of the market, instead ensuring small-scale farmers' interests are considered and protected.
A coalition of leading drug policy and human rights NGOs document Colombia's drug policy over the last decade, highlighting examples of good practice and underscoring pending challenges.
While we acknowledge that the statement represents limited progress in some areas, we regret that it repeats the mistakes of the past and was negotiated in the absence of a genuine and honest evaluation of the past decade, since the adoption of the 2009 Political Declaration and Action Plan on…
Release argue that in order to tackle overdoses associated with opium, Take-Home Naxolone (THN) must be provided by local authorities across England, alongside being made available to requesting individuals in prison.
The BC Centre on Substance Use suggests a membership-based cooperative model would reduce the public health consequences stemming from the poisoning of the illicit drug supply.
Alex Stevens suggests that the impact of cannabis policy "liberalisation" on adolescent cannabis use has been drastically overestimated in previous research.
The International AIDS Society—Lancet Commission point to a need for redoubled efforts in the HIV response, including the dismantlement of the so-called war on drugs.
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