This UNODC report aims to place policy makers in a better position to evaluate the drug situation and make informed decisions on intervention and prevention strategies.
Long-term compulsory rehabilitation cannot be justified on the grounds of effectiveness or ethics. The practice has also been associated with a number of human rights violations.
Evidence around the harms related to khat use is often equivocal, limited by confounding factors, or entirely anecdotal: high-powered, quality-controlled studies are lacking.
The increase of poppy cultivation has been accompanied by differentially lower rural wages, suggesting that households planted more drug crops in response to the decreased income generated maize farming.
Criminal justice and public health systems can work together to provide comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment inside and outside correctional facilities.
