The New Zealand Drug Foundation provides useful figures on the country's usage of various drugs and alcohol, and reports that although many continue to suffer the situation is improving.
As a result of recent casualties, 360Edge provides an overview of drug checking, a practice to empower people who use drugs to make safer decisions about the drugs they consume.
IDPC and GDPO unpick key issues raised by the 2019 World Drug Report through the lens of public health, including the expansion of regulated cannabis markets, the non-medical use of tramadol in Africa and challenges related to data-collection.
This report by the Parliamentary Committee on Drug Policy recognises evidence that UK drugs policy is failing, and that the level of drug related deaths has now risen to the scale of public health emergency.
This report highlights the role played by civil society in its engagement with regional and international organisations as well as identifying the challenges that it encounters such as a lack of transparency.
