The US Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation tested whether drug courts reduce drug use, crime, and associated problems; assessed how drug courts work and for whom; examined how changes in participant attitudes and perceptions explain effectiveness; and analysed cost savings.
This study provides a literature review of material pertaining to the reported ‘social harms’ of khat to consumers in the UK, with commentary upon the legislation brought in to control and prohibit khat in other countries.
The Statistical bulletin is published yearly by the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and provides access to the most recent statistical data relating to the drugs situation in Europe.
Household concerns about food security because of the high wheat prices were key in driving down poppy cultivation between 2008 and 2009. The coercive power of the Afghan State and international military forces also seems to have been a significant factor in determining levels of cultivation in central Helmand in 2010 and 2011. However, the sustainability of these effects will vary among different communities.
In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of President Nixon declaring “war on drugs,” LEAP, a group of police, judges and jailers who support legalisation, released a report showing how the Obama administration is ramping up a war it claims ended two years ago.
Over 50 policy makers, practitioners, academics, and representatives from NGOs and governmental organisations attended the meeting, to discuss the Portuguese decriminalisation model, cannabis policy reform, and the agenda and global initiatives at the 54th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Alternative development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocates and detractors debating whether such programmes contribute to decreasing the cultivation of llegal crops. However, little is known about the opinions of the people targeted by these programmes and the implications that they have for their daily lives. This analysis hopes to play a role in correcting this imbalance.
This report, co-authored by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Harm Reduction International, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Foundations, documents some of the abuses perpetrated in the name of drug rehabilitation.
This update of t he Afghanistan Cannabis Survey 2009 confirms Afghanistan's role as a major grower of cannabis, but also discovers that the country produces more cannabis resin or hashish than any other nation.
The Hemispheric Report addresses the collective progress of the CICAD member states in confronting the drug problem from a hemispheric perspective, mirroring the structure of the Hemispheric Drug Strategy, which provides guidelines for integrated, coordinated and cooperative hemispheric action.
This review aims to summarise the main aspects of the drug situation in Georgia, and to describe its main characteristics, trends and developments. It also attempts to identify drug information gaps, as well as the adequacy of the system of responses to the drug problem in the country.