The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have brought some developments, but have concomitantly had serious negative consequences for China’s two neighbours.
The EMCDDA annual report is the agency's flagship publication, and provides a wealth of information and analysis on consumption, production and distribution trends, including sophisticated new methods in the trafficking of cocaine; changes in the stimulant market; widespread domestic cannabis production; and the expansion and diversification of the available range of legal highs.
The policy briefing focusing on injecting drug users seeks to discover the key needs and rights of this community around sexual and reproductive health.
This report looks at how evidence-based services such as heroin treatment, injection rooms, and needle exchange can lower HIV infection rates, improve health outcomes, and lower crime rates, based on the example of Switzerland.
This report summarises the insights gained from a literature review, a review of available data and information collected in a survey of individual national experts on GPS key indicators within the Reitox network. The survey aimed to explore specialist stances on the issue of varying survey contexts and also to find a possible internationally valid scientific agreement that would temporarily replace a costly scientific exploration.
This paper highlights the concerns raised by the lack of transparency in the INCB’s work, in particular regarding the current practice of the Board’s country correspondence with member states.
The report is the clearest statement to date from within the UN system about the harms that drug policies have caused and the need for a fundamental shift in drug policy.
This report describes the programme ‘City Partnerships on the Improvement of Drug Treatment’, through which the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) has supported courts throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to set up treatment alternatives to incarceration for drug-dependent offenders.
Drawn disproportionately from the poorly educated and the marginally employed, the millions of people in American jails and prisons faced poor mobility prospects before they entered the prison walls. With so many people and families affected, and with such concentration of the impacts among young, poorly educated men from disadvantaged neighborhoods, discussions of mobility in America must include reference to crime policy and the criminal justice system.
The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws as detailed in IHRA’s report 'Complicity or abolition?', and to provide recommendations to donor-countries.
The report focuses on human rights violations that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in the context of Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began in March 2008. The five cases described involve acts of torture, forced disappearance and sexual harassment of women by Mexican soldiers.
