The High Point, North Carolina police department received the 2007 Innovations in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. This prestigious award was given to High Point for their successful strategy to eliminate neighborhood drug markets.
The objective of this study was to investigate the possibility that opium poppy crops in Afghanistan could be used to produce opium-based medicines such as morphine and codeine.
This article provides an analysis of two articles published in Volume 176, Issue 6 of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, published in November 2006. These articles shed light on policies that Canada should adopt to stem the spread of HIV infection among users of illicit drugs.
In this review, the authors summarize the findings from evaluations in those 3 years, including characteristics of IDUs at the facility, public injection drug use and publicly discarded syringes, HIV risk behaviour, use of addiction treatment services and other community resources, and drug-related crime rates.
Recent research into drug problems in a number of cultures and settings has indicated that a disproportionate amount of the harm and costs arising from drug use is associated with the relatively small proportion of dependent users. With the increasing recognition of the scale of the problems associated with dependent drug use, and that these problems cannot simply be resolved by enforcement action against the target group, treatment for drug addiction has progressed in the last 20 years from being a marginal and poorly resourced activity to, in many countries, the central pillar of the national drug policy.
This article explores the empirical effects of U.S. drug policy on coca cultivation in the Central Andes. It assesses the impact of U.S. military assistance on the production of coca in the Central Andes, while controlling for other explanatory variables that influence coca cultivation.
These studies provided estimates which were the best available at the time, but they were conceived as a starting point for further developments and hence also identified a number of ways in which they needed to be improved.
Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been proposed as a potential solution, but fears have been raised that they might encourage drug use.
In Brazil, the first large crack consumption market appeared at the end of he 1980s in São Paulo and expanded during the 1990s reaching its peak halfway the decade.
This DPAG (www.drugpolicy.ie) paper examines the provision of formal i.e. specialist treatment services & drug agencies and generic social care services for problem drug users in Ireland.