The latest survey on coca in Peru, produced by UNODC in collaboration with the Peruvian government, shows that the area of cultivation and cocaine production of the country fell by 13.9 percent from the year 2013 to 2014.
This NDARC study concludes that harm reduction strategies and health promotion messages need to target risky behaviours to educate and inform people who inject drugs.
This informative factsheet was drafted by the African Palliative Care Association and the Palliative Care Association of Uganda to provide information on palliative care.
To contribute to the UNGASS debates, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies held a public policy dialogue to help the technical, professional and diplomatic communities in Geneva to explore options for policy makers.
The training module was developed as a result of the workshop which was organised for CAHR partners in December 2014. This three days training module can be used to build capacity of service providers aiming to improve access to care and treatment for HIV positive people using drugs.
Since Washington’s passage of I-502, retail marijuana sales have generated over $80 million in tax revenues and the state has saved millions of dollars by no longer arresting and prosecuting low-level marijuana offences.
In this study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, supervised injectable heroin was found to be an effective way of treating heroin dependence refractory to standard treatment, in particular for patient populations previously considered unresponsive to treatment.
This article, published in The Lancet, argues that only a massive and rapid expansion of a comprehensive AIDS response between now and 2020 can achieve the highly ambitious UN goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
This OSF report explains how the community control system in Bolivia works and shows its effectiveness in decreasing violence, increasing citizen engagement, limiting corruption, stabilising and diversifying local economies, and reducing coca cultivation.
Transform's publication, 'Ending the war on drugs: How to win the global drug policy debate' provides an overview of prohibition, the war on drugs and international drug policies to equip those who are new to the topic with a firm foundation on the subject.
The latest Colombia coca survey, produced by UNODC jointly with the Colombian government, shows that the country's coca cultivation area and cocaine production both increased substantially in 2014 compared to the previous year.
This report provides an insight into Community Action on Harm Reduction's work and provides case studies which captures the programme that significantly reduced the risks of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs and their community.
