Publications

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1 December 2010

Red Cross Report - Out of harm's way

The report outlines the severity of the epidemic and the human rights violations routinely faced by people who inject drugs around the world. Amongst the report’s several recommendations are the decriminalisation of drug users, as well as access to due legal process and health services for those who use drugs both within, and outside prisons and other closed settings.

30 November 2010

Drug mules in the international cocaine trade: diversity and relative deprivation

The research in this report sought to look beyond the media image of drug mules to better understand what motivates men and women to work as drug mules.

25 November 2010

Measuring up - A guide for learners: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations

The need for advocacy to address the challenges of HIV is widely acknowledged and accepted. This resource, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, brings together useful concepts and models identified from new literature on advocacy evaluation.

24 November 2010

Media reporting on illicit drugs in Australia: Trends and impacts on youth

This report examines the role of the news media, a medium that has a potentially important role in influencing the prevalence, patterns and harms associated with illicit drug consumption in Australia.

24 November 2010

TNI Drug Policy Briefing No.33 - Alternative Development or Business as Usual? China’s Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos

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.

24 November 2010

EMCDDA launches 2010 Report

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.

24 November 2010

Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of injecting drug users living with HIV

The policy briefing focusing on injecting drug users seeks to discover the key needs and rights of this community around sexual and reproductive health.

24 November 2010

From the mountaintops: what the world can learn from drug policy change in Switzerland

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.

27 October 2010

Comparison of methods and resulting drug use prevalence estimates of health surveys versus drug surveys methods

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.

27 October 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - The need for increased transparency: The country correspondence of the INCB

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.

27 October 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - Drug policy and development: How action against illicit drugs impacts on the Millennium Development Goals

This short paper highlights some of the impacts of current repressive and/or narrow drug control policies on broader development goals.

26 October 2010

Annual Thematic Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to health

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.