In June, Bolivia withdrew from the Single Convention, to then re-accede with a reservation on coca leaf chewing. IDPC fully supports Bolivia’s decision.
Sinaloa and Juarez cartels are fighting for the city and the access it provides to the multi-billion dollar US drug market only a few hundred metres away. On this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through.
The Philippines is well-known for exporting domestic workers across the world, but as low-income jobs disappear in the global recession, increasing numbers of desperate Filipinos are resorting to something much more dangerous – smuggling drugs as mules.
In the second episode of a two-part series, Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines team find out how campesino communities caught in the narco-economy are resisting repression and dispossession.
This first profile describes the national drug policy of Portugal, including national strategies and action plans, the legal context within which they operate and the public funds spent, or committed, to resource them. It also describes the political bodies and mechanisms set up to coordinate the response to the multi-faceted problem and the systems of evaluation that may help to improve future policy.
This paper provides an insight into Malaysian drug policies and the environment in which the national response to drugs has been developing in terms of harm reduction, prisons, drug treatment, law enforcement responses and civil society participation. An analysis of the situation concludes with recommendations for further drug policy development.
In a declaration, supported by various Latin American groups, IDPC calls for a new focus in drug policies that encompasses social development, education, universal healthcare, and human rights and fundamental freedom.
This poster by Harm Reduction International provides an overview of the growing body of literature which demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of harm reduction programmes such as needle and syringe exchange and opioid substitution therapy.
Tackling substance dependence through treatment instead of punishment is still one of the most critical issues in Lebanon. In 2008, Skoun, Lebanese Addiction Center, launched the project "For a Greater Respect for the Rights of Drug Addicts" to analyse why the 1998 law (which provides for decriminalisation of drug use and treatment for dependent users) is still scarcely applied, working with the police force and judicial system to sensitise them on the nature of drug dependence and effectiveness of treatment versus incarceration.
I 500.000 consumatori più assidui, più o meno 1/6 dei consumatori regolari, generano quasi la metà dei guadagni illeciti nel mercato della droga. Secondo stime correnti la repressione con i sequestri arriva ad eliminare appena il 10% della droga circolante. Una nuova politica dovrebbe puntare decisamente al reinserimento nella società e nel lavoro dei consumatori più assidui.
