This briefing highlights the effects of drug policy on women as producers, suppliers and consumers of drugs in order to inform and guide policy makers on practices that should be avoided, as well as highlight those policies which effectively incorporate and address women’s needs.
This report indicates that people who enter the criminal justice system with an arrest for public possession of marijuana rarely commit violent crimes in the future.
This research focuses on the role of the drugs trade in criminal violence and policy responses (militarization and private security) in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, known as "The Northern Triangle".
Following the economic crisis in 2008, many European countries reduced health spending. This report presents the most recent comparable data for selected indicators of health systems in 35 European countries.
Coletta A. Youngers, WOLA Senior Fellow, Commentaries about the International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development approved last week at an international meeting in Lima, Peru. She states that this document represents a lost opportunity to promote equitable economic development in some of the world’s poorest regions.
The purpose of this assessment was to collect information on the scale and quality of the existing Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) services for people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Kyrgyz Republic, and to identify any gaps in such services.
The guide examines therapeutic process, the exchange between client and clinician through which the work happens. It' s focus on the relationship being formed during this therapeutic process.
In Australia, preference for ecstasy has begun to return (32% in 2012 versus 27% in 2011). Alcohol has overtaken cocaine as the third drug of choice. This is one of the conclusions of the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)-2012, conducted by National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.
This paper explores in which extent gender perspective is present in the design of the policy guidelines issued by the various agencies involved in the development and implementation of European Union (EU) drug policy.
This report conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare presents data about alcohol and other drug treatment agencies, their clients, drugs of concern and the type of treatment received.
This visit was an opportunity for UHRN representatives to learn more about how these harm reduction services are design and delivered, in order to be able to promote similar initiatives in Uganda.
