This second edition of the Release report on decriminalisation provides updates on the jurisdictions that have adopted a non-criminal justice response to the possession of drugs for personal use.
The second edition of the Alternative World Drug Report demonstrates that the current approach is creating crime, harming health, and fatally undermining all “three pillars” of the UN’s work – peace and security, development, and human rights.
In this report, IDPC offers recommendations based on evidence and examples of good practice to inform a shift in policy responses to drug use in Asia away from criminalisation and punishment, and towards public health and harm reduction.
From 2014 to 2015 Mainline, together with its local partner Tanadgoma, implemented a series of interventions around Hepatitis C, aiming to understand the gaps and barriers to enrollment in the care cascade of hepatitis C prevention and treatment from the community perspective.
Alex Wodak (Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation) presents an honest account of efforts to control HIV among and from people who inject drugs in Asia.
