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9 April 2012

Stop Imprisonment, Time for Rehabilitation

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

9 April 2012

Guidelines for debate: What is gender perspective?

This edition of Guidelines for Debate aims to define what gender perspective is and to provide guidance for its incorporation in the development of public programs and policies.

6 April 2012

Report on the 6th HIV/AIDS Asia Regional Program Consultation and Coordination Forum

This report provides a summary and overview of the sessions and augments the very substantial data which is included on the USB handed to all participants at the close of the Forum

4 April 2012

Australia 21 Report: The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children

Report of a high level roundtable held at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 31st January 2012 on the topic “What are the likely costs and benefits of a change in Australia’s current policy on illicit drugs?”

4 April 2012

Commanding General Confidence? Human Rights, International Law and the INCB Annual Report for 2011

This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board.

3 April 2012

Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition

The global trade in illicit drugs is thriving, with no apparent change in global levels of consumption despite decades of prohibition. After 18-months of research, Nigel Inkster and Virginia Comolli have concluded that the present enforcement regime is not only failing to win the ‘War on Drugs’, it is also a major cause of violence and instability in producer and transit countries.

2 April 2012

Beyond Crime and Drug Use Do Adult Drug Courts Produce Other Psychosocial Benefits?

Research examining whether adult drug courts produce benefits in other areas as well as the reduction of reoffending, including socioeconomic well-being, family relationships, mental health and homelessness.

1 April 2012

Drug policy debate is needed

Why should we look again at UK drug policy now? The present government has taken a brave policy approach to alcohol and tobacco in the interests of the nation’s health, and a review of drug policy is timely from several perspectives alongside the Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna.

28 March 2012

HIV treatment as prevention among injection drug users

HAART prevents HIV transmission because it dramatically decreases HIV-1 RNA levels in biological fluids. Efforts to expand HAART to IDUs should be redoubled in an effort to realize both the individual and public health benefits of HAART.

27 March 2012

Cause for Alarm; The Incarceration of Women for Drug Offences in Europe and Central Asia, and the need for Legislative and Sentencing Reform

The new report is the first to calculate the total number of females in prisons on drug offences in Europe and Central Asia.

26 March 2012

Guide on Estimating Requirements for Substances under International Control

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is launching the Guide on Estimating Requirements for Substances under International Control on the occasion of the centennial of the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on 23 January 1912, which was the cornerstone of international drug control.

26 March 2012

New guidance manual for addressing viral hepatitis in people with substance use disorders

This new manual was developed to provide behavioral health care programs offering substance abuse treatment services information to better address the needs of clients who have viral hepatitis.