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15 April 2012

Políticas de drogas e o bem público: evidências para intervenções eficazes

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.

12 April 2012

The drugs problem in Latin America: The right to development and market regulation

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.

11 April 2012

Report of the Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment Study , 2012

This scientific study analyses data from a variety of sources on the need for supervised consumption facilities in Toronto and Ottawa.

9 April 2012

Policy paper providing guidance to policy makers for developing coherent policies for licit and illicit drugs

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.

9 April 2012

Guidelines for debate: What is harm reduction?

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.

9 April 2012

Progress in HIV reduction and prevention among injection and non-injection drug users

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.

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.