IDPC Magazine 1 - Human rights violations in the name of drug control

Welcome to the first issue of the IDPC magazine. This series of magazines from IDPC, created in association with TalkingDrugs, will feature personal stories behind the policy debates to give a flavour of how policies affect the real, lived experiences of people on the ground.

The stories in this inaugural IDPC magazine are a stark reminder of why the drug laws of many countries across the globe need to be fixed. Each story – collected from countries as diverse as Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, the Netherlands and Poland – tells us of the disproportionate harm suffered by individuals of the badly focused resources targeting low-level “offending”, and of the human rights abuses inflicted in the name of drug control.