Com o propósito de investigar a extensão do desafio de saúde representado pelo VHC, a Economist Intelligence Unit, em nome da Janssen, realizou 16 entrevistas detalhadas com especialistas, incluindo autoridades de saúde nacionais e internacionais, ativistas, pesquisadores e pessoal médico, bem como uma extensa pesquisa documental.
Coca plantations are the largest illegal agribusiness in the world, and Colombia is the world’s leading coca producer.This article evaluates the social and environmental impacts of this policy.
This edition of Guidelines for the Debate tries to define what a human rights perspective is and how to integrate this viewpoint into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policy.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform launches the Report of its Inquiry into New Psychoactive Substances ('legal highs') on the 14th January 2013. The Inquiry began in 2011 and was initiated in response to the rapid development of new and unknown psychoactive substances and to examine whether alternative forms of regulation could prove more effective in minimising the potential harms of such substances than the current system of drug control.
This is an advocacy tool, as an important part of the strategy in implementing harm reduction networking activities in order to raise the issue of drug use especially former prisoners.
This paper describes the implementation of a wide array of harm reduction interventions including medication-assisted treatment, needle and syringe programs and “sober houses” for residential treatment in Tanzania.
