No comprehensively effective ‘gold-standard’ prevention and treatment interventions for crack abuse exist; so concerted research towards improved interventions is urgently needed.
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.
