Opium has been used medicinally and recreationally for millennia. In the linked cohort study conducted in the Iranian province of Golestan, Khademi and colleagues find that opium use is associated with almost double the risk of death from any cause.
In 2012, the Opium Risk Assessment is carried out in two phases similar to last year. The first phase was carried out in December 2011 and January 2012 and covered the Central, Eastern, Southern and Western region, where opium is sown in fall 2011. The second phase took place in February-March 2012 and covered the Northern and North-eastern regions, where opium poppy is cultivated in spring. This report presents the findings of both phases.
The concept of “recovery” within alcohol and other drug treatment is far from new, and features in the demand reduction section of the Australian National Drugs Strategy. Recent ‘recovery-oriented systems of care’ is a US-born concept that is shaping drug treatment policy in the United Kingdom, and is now in the early stages of being promoted in Australia.
A plant with dissociative and psychoactive properties began to attract the attention of the media and United States policymakers following a well-publicized suicide in 2006 and reports that the plant served as a ‘legal high’ and substitute for cannabis.
This e-book analyses research and evidence generated over the years on the drug problem and confronts it with the state of affairs on this issue as seen through the prism of the United States and Mexican experiences.
Debates sobre que iniciativas políticas podem prevenir ou reduzir os danos que as drogas ilícitas causam ao bem público são raramente esclarecidos por evidências científicas. Felizmente, as intervenções cientificamente baseadas têm sido cada vez mais identificadas como capazes de fazer as drogas menos disponíveis, reduzir a violência nos mercados de drogas, diminuir a má utilização de medicamentos legais, prevenir o início do uso de drogas em jovens, e reduzir o uso de drogas e as suas consequências em utilizadores de drogas activos.
In this paper, the Uruguayan Special Ambassador for Drug Policy and Human Rights, Milton Romani, lays out the range of issues to be addressed as part of a serious, democratic debate over drug policy.
This policy paper aims to provide decision makers and policy managers with an overview of the basic principles, instruments and tools that will support them in developing, reviewing and implementing drug policies, strategies and action plans.
This issue of Guidelines for debate seeks to generate a broader and better understanding of the meaning of “harm reduction”, what it implies and how it can be utilised through a framework of respect towards human rights and with a youth-friendly perspective.
Substantial progress has been made in reducing HIV among injection drug users (IDUs) in the United States, despite political and social resistance that reduced resources and restricted access to services. Expanding approaches to noninjecting drug users, especially those at highest risk (eg, minority men who have sex with men) and incorporating these newer approaches is a public health priority.
A new report produced in Indonesia by the Monitoring Network of Human Rights Violations against People who Use Drugs looks specifically at police mistreatment of drug users. The stigmatization of drug users often means that government officials can act with impunity when it comes to violence, coercion, and use of abusive force
