The defining characteristic of Drug Consumption Rooms is that they are legally sanctioned environments where people can take illegal drugs.

Over the past three years Russia and Ukraine have experienced one of the fastest growing HIV pandemics in Europe.

Compiling statements given at the 2004 session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, this IHRD-produced volume argues that unduly strict interpretation of UN drug control treaties undermines HIV prevention efforts by discouraging countries from implementing effective, realistic, and compassionate…

On 29 January 2004, an amendment to the drug laws came into effect in the UK that moved cannabis and its derivatives from Class B to Class C under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the primary drug control legislation in the UK.

Australia experienced extraordinary and unprecedented changes to its illicit drug market from the end of 2000.

This report discusses the global drug control system - particularly the role of the United Nations - and the challenges confronting drug policy.

This report considers good practice in objective setting and evaluation.

This new IHRD report details successful efforts from around the world to offer drug users antiretroviral treatment (ARV) and the dangers of failing to do so.

In contrast with traditional plant-based drugs, the illicit ecstasy industry is not bound to specific cultivation areas.

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;…

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…

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.

This report presents the UK Strategy Unit’s analysis of the harms caused by crack and heroin.

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.

TNI Drugs & Conflict Debate Paper 9, December 2003 - Burma is on the brink of yet another humanitarian crisis.

The problem of mobile drug users in CE exists for more than a decade.