Report from Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO to describe the “compulsory treatment centres” in Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Viet Nam.
IDPC response to the 2008 Annual Report of the INCB, concludes that the INCB is quick to condemn liberalisation of policy and practice, while ignoring clear breaches of the spirit and letter of the conventions that arise from repressive national drug policies.
In 2001, the Portugese government decriminalised recreational drugs including heroin and cocaine in an attempt to reduce the number of hard drug users in the country. Eight years later, Claudia Hammond visited Lisbon to see whether the change in the law had been effective.
On 28th May 2009, Chatham House hosted the UK launch of Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift – the report of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. The report calls for the engagement of civil society and public opinion so that a debate on safer, more efficient and humane drug policies can take place.