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.
This Strategy coordinates an unprecedented government-wide public health and safety approach to reduce drug use and its consequences in the United States. The Administration's new Strategy continues to expand upon a balanced approach to drug control that emphasizes community-based drug prevention, integration of drug treatment into the mainstream health care system, innovations in the criminal justice system to break the cycle of drug use and crime, and international partnerships to disrupt transnational drug trafficking organizations.
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.