The joint letter warns that expanding involuntary treatment in British Columbia would violate medical ethics, endanger patients, and deepen human rights harm, calling instead for evidence-based, voluntary, community-led care.
McAdam et al. examine how decriminalisation reduced policing-related barriers to services, revealing important benefits for young people, including Indigenous.
As the 'narcoterrorism' rhetoric is weaponised to intensify the 'war on drugs', this event explores its human rights consequences and the mechanisms needed to ensure accountability and protect international law.
Despite proving their compassion club prevented overdoses, DULF founders were convicted and now plan a Charter challenge against the criminalisation of harm reduction.
IDPC joins over 100 national and international organisations urging the US Congress to investigate President Trump’s unlawful military strikes in the Caribbean and growing militarisation of domestic response.
IDPC joins civil society worldwide in calling on Canada to reaffirm its leadership in global health by pledging CAD$1.37 billion to the Global Fund, saving millions of lives and strengthening global resilience.
The HIV Legal Network argues that laws criminalising simple possession and drug trafficking entrench racism and stigma, deepen inequality, and endanger health and safety by pushing drug use into isolation and heightening the risk of overdose.
