This report offers an in-depth analysis of India's complex drug policies including an insight into the country's licit and illicit drug cultivation as well as its regulated opium cultivation industry.
This briefing gives an overview of recent developments in Europe exploring legal regulation of the cannabis market as a more promising model for protecting people’s health and safety.
This briefing paper reviews the efforts conducted in the USA to adopt a less repressive, more proportionate, and more effective approach towards drug offenders.
Professor David Nutt demonstrates how a prohibitionist approach to drug control has hindered life science and medical research, with disastrous consequences that have lasted for more than 50 years.
Between 80 and 100 people who relied on opioid substitution for drug dependency treatment have died since May 2014, when authorities in Crimea suddenly closed all 11 treatment programmes.
While HIV prevalence and needle sharing among current injecting drug users in China have declined dramatically and are correlated with the scale-up of national harm reduction efforts, the recent, rapid increased use of ‘nightclub drugs’ presents a new challenge.
Based on accumulated evidence and data on non-medical use, diversion and trafficking, and evidence of ketamine’s therapeutic value, there are serious concerns around placing the substance under international control.
This report analyses the effects of complicity of organised crime cells and public authorities in Mexico, where corruption and impunity are rife and civil society suffers the most.
