A new UNAIDS–ILO report lays out urgent reforms in relation to the Joint Programme's management, warning of resurgence risks without stronger country leadership, civil society involvement, domestic investment, and forecasting the pandemic's progress.
The 2025 EU Drug Report uncovers a rapidly evolving drug landscape, fuelled by synthetic substances, tech innovation, and global instability. With rising health and security threats, the report places urgent emphasis on real-time data, early warning systems, and bold cross-sector collaboration.
Published 14 May 2025, WHO’s new guidance calls for bold, balanced drug policies that ensure fair access to controlled medicines. It updates 2011 rules with sharper focus on equity, harm reduction, pricing, regulation, and education - anchored in health rights and transparency.
Wire et al. conclude that Oregon's drug decriminalisation did not lead to an increase in emergency service calls and encourage strategies to counter public misconceptions of future reforms.
Dr. Miller, Raychelle Baffo, and Andy O’Hara reveal how stigma harms people who use drugs, through hostile systems, housing barriers, and criminalization. These advocates urge action: raising awareness, challenge power, and demanding dignity in health, housing, and social services.
INPUD warns that abrupt US foreign aid cuts have devastated harm reduction services, leaving people who use drugs without life-saving care, triggering service collapse, job losses, and a looming human rights crisis.
YouthRISE Nigeria outlines Nigeria’s harm reduction response in the context of its legal framework, highlighting key policy gaps, institutional dynamics, and emerging opportunities for change.
DPA calls on the US to abandon drug war strategies and embrace a health and human rights-based approach, showing how global prohibition fuels violence, poverty, and overdose crises.
This publication offers contributions to the debate on land use and climate justice, shining a light on the dynamics arising from current drug policies in Brazil.
PRI highlights record prison populations, overcrowding and rights abuses — urging drug policy reform, non-custodial measures and centring lived experience in decision-making
IDPC and fellow NGOs expose how militarised drug policies fuel extrajudicial killings and systemic abuse, urging urgent global reforms to uphold human rights and end impunity.
