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Japan sees record number of marijuana cases in 2017 as youth involvement rises

Over 80% of the cases concern simple possession offences.

Conclusions of the WHO international meeting on prisons and health Lisbon 2017

The Conclusions endorse harm reduction interventions and urge member states to undertake criminal justice reform that involves alternatives to incarceration/conviction for non-violent drug offences.

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How to legislate recreational cannabis

Mainline identifies lessons from the Uruguayan and Coloradoan experiences of legal regulation.

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‘Worth the test?’ Pragmatism, pill testing and drug policy in Australia

By Andrew Groves,

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Recent deaths of young Australian music festival attendees from ‘party-drug’ overdoses have sparked debate about the effectiveness of drug policies. Australia is widely lauded for its harm minimisation approach to drugs, and yet, over the last 30 years,…

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Reducing crime and preventing harm: West Midlands drug policy recommendations

The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner offers recommendations to put harm reduction at the core of the response to drug-related challenges.

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Conference room paper submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany on the importance of harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs

This paper identifies key barriers and novel approaches to harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs, and makes recommendations on the way forward.

April 10, 2018

Needle and syringe programs in Australia: Peer-led best practice

AIVL underscores the importance of NSP services that are defined by and responsive to the needs of people who inject drugs

April 9, 2018

Time for a New Belgian on Cannabis ?

Given the limited scientific knowledge of the day, it is understandable to a degree that the architects of the current international enforcement regime on drugs believed sixty years ago in the concept of total eradication of drug production and use. Nowadays, however, it is impossible to ignore…

April 9, 2018

Victoria, Australia: Inquiry into drug law reform

Report recommends the Victorian Government implements a new drugs strategy, based on the four pillars of: prevention, law enforcement, treatment and harm reduction.

April 5, 2018

Ending the agony: Access to Morphine as an Ethical and Human Rights Imperative

Millions of children and adults around the world, afflicted with terminal or life-threatening illnesses, suffer from severe physical pain, screaming out and begging for help. There is an effective treatment available that is easy and cheap to produce. And yet, for various reasons, including…

April 3, 2018

Parliament of Victoria, Australia: Inquiry into drug law reform

Drug law reform is an incredibly complex area of public policy. This is due to the interweaving nature of the relevant issues and the challenges arising from drug use and its consequences. This complexity is also due to conflicting views about how best to address the use of drugs in the…

April 3, 2018

Balancing treaty stability and change

Inter se modification appears to provide a useful safety valve for collective action to adjust the treaty regime of the UN drug control conventions.

March 29, 2018

Uruguay’s cannabis law: Pioneering a new paradigm

WOLA and Brookings examine the conditions that led Uruguay’s government to pass its cannabis law in 2013, studies its progress so far, and identifies areas that policymakers should consider addressing in order to maximize the law’s potential benefits.

March 28, 2018

Global review of drug checking services operating in 2017

The NDARC offers an overview of the features of drug checking services operating across the globe as at 2017.

March 28, 2018

Hepatitis C in England 2018 report

The report recommends the expansion of the current broad range of provision (including opioid substitution treatment (OST) to reduce transmission of HCV.

March 28, 2018

African Union: Compendium of good practices on drug use prevention, drug use disorders treatment and harm reduction

The Compendium consists of (15) articles, from AU Member States, describing best practice initiatives in prevention, treatment and harm reduction.

March 22, 2018

Drug courts in the Americas

The Social Science Research Council reviews key findings from regional case studies on drug courts that may be useful to inform debates about these mechanisms and other alternatives to incarceration for low-level drug crimes.

March 21, 2018

Addressing barriers to effective HIV prevention and service delivery among people who inject drugs in Nigeria

Youth RISE Nigeria raises issues with data collection in the country, and calls for stronger commitments to effectively deploy harm reduction and HIV prevention services in an enabling environment.

March 20, 2018

Uganda harm reduction network- (UHRN) Annual report 2017

Revitalizing HIV prevention programs for drug users especially those who inject drugs is paramount.

March 20, 2018

Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2017

The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) and ECPM shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This number is comparable with the execution figures in 2016 and confirms the relative reduction in the use of the death…

March 20, 2018

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Japan sees record number of marijuana cases in 2017 as youth involvement rises

Conclusions of the WHO international meeting on prisons and health Lisbon 2017

How to legislate recreational cannabis

‘Worth the test?’ Pragmatism, pill testing and drug policy in Australia

Abstract

Background

Reducing crime and preventing harm: West Midlands drug policy recommendations

Conference room paper submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany on the importance of harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs

Needle and syringe programs in Australia: Peer-led best practice

Time for a New Belgian on Cannabis ?

Victoria, Australia: Inquiry into drug law reform

Ending the agony: Access to Morphine as an Ethical and Human Rights Imperative

Parliament of Victoria, Australia: Inquiry into drug law reform

Balancing treaty stability and change

Uruguay’s cannabis law: Pioneering a new paradigm

Global review of drug checking services operating in 2017

Hepatitis C in England 2018 report

African Union: Compendium of good practices on drug use prevention, drug use disorders treatment and harm reduction

Drug courts in the Americas

Addressing barriers to effective HIV prevention and service delivery among people who inject drugs in Nigeria

Uganda harm reduction network- (UHRN) Annual report 2017

Annual report on the death penalty in Iran 2017

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