This short report provides an overview of how European countries are developing innovative legal responses to the challenges presented to public health and drug policy by the rapidly evolving market for new psychoactive substances.
The World Drug Report presents a comprehensive annual overview of the latest developments in the world's illicit drug markets by focusing on the production, trafficking and consumption of the main types of illicit drugs, along with the related health consequences of those drugs.
Despite some improvements, drug policy in Malaysia continues to include imprisonment of people who use drugs (PWUD), judicial corporal punishment, and compulsory detention, representing clear challenges to effective harm reduction service delivery.
This study is the first and only barometer report fully dedicated to drug policy in Latin America and is carried out in conjunction with key research centers in the region.
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2016 should be a defining moment for global health and for the response to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, especially for the migrants in Central Asia.
Both in the UK and Australia, the use of police stop and search powers has raised concerns because of their overwhelming focus on members of black and minority ethnic communities.
A team of experts from the ECDPC and the EMCDDA confirmed the very high rate of infections with hepatitis B and C, HIV, and AIDS, concentrated mainly among certain populations at higher risk, and prepared a comprehensive list of remedial actions.
This meeting discussed the adoption of a new drug law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the role of the police in supporting harm reduction services across the country.
In the UK there is increasing acceptance of the medical use of cannabis within the medical profession, but this has only been reflected marginally in government policy and a significant number of people are not authorised to receive medication which they believe will alleviate their condition.
In the United States, Federal and state drug laws and policies over the past 20 years have had specific, devastating, and disparate effects on women, and particularly on women of colour and low-income women.
This interactive report has a dedicated section to TNI's long-term analysis and advocacy on the devastating costs of the drugs war that is supporting a domino effect in favour of regulation and harm reduction.
