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