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15 June 2011

Medicine and the epidemic of incarceration in the United States

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in US prisons has increased by more than 600%. On 1 January 2008, one of every 100 adults were behind bars. The medical profession has the chance both to advocate for changes in the criminal justice system to reduce the number of people behind bars who would be better served in community-based treatment and to capitalise on the tremendous public health opportunities for diagnosing and treating disease and for linking patients to care after release.
1 June 2011
Guerra alla Droga - Rapporto Della Commissione Globale per le Politiche Sulle Droghe

Guerra alla Droga - Rapporto Della Commissione Globale per le Politiche Sulle Droghe

La guerra globale alla droga è fallita, con conseguenze devastanti per gli individui e le società di tutto il mondo. Cinquanta anni dopo la Convenzione Unica delle Nazioni Unite sugli Stupefacenti, e a 40 anni da quando il presidente Nixon lanciò la guerra alle droghe del governo americano, sono urgenti e necessarie riforme fondamentali nelle politiche di controllo delle droghe nazionali e mondiali.
1 June 2011

HIV & Islam - Responsible religious response to HIV & AIDS in Malaysia

Since the HIV epidemic was first established in 1986, a total of 65,235 cases of HIV have been cumulatively reported in the Malay Muslim community, which constitute 71% of the total caseload. Recognising the low level of engagement of Islamic religious authorities in the community-based responses to HIV and AIDS, the Malaysian AIDS Council took the pragmatic approach of building strategic partnerships with national and state level religious departments.
23 May 2011

Family drug and alcohol court - Evaluation research study

This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the first pilot Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) in Britain. FDAC is a new approach to care proceedings, in cases where parental substance misuse is a key element in the local authority decision to bring proceedings. The study is being conducted by Brunel University.