The Pompidou Group provides a series of recommendations to ensure access to opioid agonist treatment, including amending prescription practices and reconsidering stigmatising terminology.
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Partnership on Substance Abuse recommends deploying overdose prevention strategies that empower communities and significantly expand access to naloxone.
UNAIDS sheds light on the global progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic, noting it has slipped dramatically off-track. People who inject drugs remain 22 times more likely to live with HIV than the general population.
Coalition Plus outlines the many ways in which the war on drugs wreaks devastation among the most vulnerable and how alternative approaches could stop and redress the damage.
Five years after the approval of the first comprehensive cannabis regulation law in the world, Monitor Cannabis Uruguay and the School of Social Science of Universidad de la República are convening an academic discussion on the various aspects that arise from the implementation and results of a law of this kind.
The Central European University will be hosting a course on gender and its impact on drug policy after the release of the 2018 World Drug Report and is also offering a select number of scholarships to attend.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy fights worldwide against the war on drugs and needs your help to improve its international activities and get itself heard further.
Studies suggest, for instance, that emergency medical services are significantly less likely to administer life-saving naloxone in the event of an overdose.
ICEERS will be speaking at Human Rights Council sessions on the importance of drug policy and human rights and how efforts can be made to provide protections for Indigenous groups and their cultural practices.
The OHCHR will present the report on the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights at the 39th session of the Human Rights Council.
Psychological medicine study suggests there is evidence that ayahuasca, a healing brew used by indigenous populations, has therapeutic values when specifically looking to treat depression.
