This handbook looks at the complex nature of the collaborative process from formation to the realisation, or otherwise, of agreed targets. It suggests ways of working around the ‘barriers’ that are likely to be encountered along the way. It could be relevant in the field of drug policy.
The project sought to enhance the understanding of police as to how they could support the Australian National Drug Strategy in four specific areas - preventing and minimising the impact of drug overdoses; encouraging safer illicit drug use practices; encouraging entry into treatment programs; and, reducing the demand for illicit drugs.
The emergence of HIV/AIDS, and its rapid spread among injecting drug users (IDUs), meant that effective strategies had to be developed and adopted – these effective strategies form the harm reduction approach. Harm reduction can co-exist with supply and demand reduction but its focus is on public health rather than law and order.
This paper aims to determine whether supervised medical prescription of heroin can successfully treat dependent users who do not sufficiently benefit from methadone maintenance treatment.
This article discusses the longstanding conflict within the UN system between nations wanting to maintain the prohibition regime and those hoping for a more pragmatic approach to drug policy.
Executive summary of "Synthetic drug trafficking in three European cities: major trends and involvement of organised crime", the product of a TNI-Gruppo Abele-UNICRI partnership.
TNI Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 7, June 2003 - One of the greatest challenges in Colombia today is how to meet alternative development objectives in the midst of war.
One of the greatest challenges for alternative development policy in Colombia's current situation is to be effective and meet objectives in the midst of war.
