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6th European conference on health promotion in custody

1 - 3 Февраль 2012

Geneva, Switzerland

The 6th European Conference on the Promotion of Health in Prison will focus on the theme "Patients or prisoners - Towards equity in care in prison", in order to provide new responses to the major challenges to care in prison.

Events 19 Сентябрь 2011English

French National Harm Reduction Conference

14 - 15 Октябрь 2010

Montreuil, France

The conference will cover topics such as drug users in prison, injecting rooms, harm reduction in nightlife settings, the role of elected officials in the development of the harm reduction policies, drug user involvement, hepatitis C, etc.

Events 8 Октябрь 2010English

ACCESS conference 'Drug users in custody: Learning the lessons'

5 - 6 Октябрь 2012

Milan, Italy

This event will expose participants to EU and international policy development, research and examples of service establishment and delivery at local, national and international level on harm reduction and treatment in prison and in the criminal justice system.

Events 19 Апрель 2012English

Challenges to implementing OST in Ukrainian prisons: Personnel attitudes toward addiction, treatment, and people with HIV/AIDS

In Ukraine, the adoption of OST is more influenced by ideological biases and prejudices than by existing scientific evidence.

Publications 6 Январь 2015English

IDPC Drug Policy Guide

Welcome to the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide. The Guide brings together global evidence and examples of best practice to provide guidance on the review, design and implementation of national drug policies.

Publications 15 Март 2012English

Decrease in use of ecstasy/MDMA in Australia

Recent data from the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program indicate a decrease in the use of ecstasy among police detainees.

Publications 22 Февраль 2012English

Opioid maintenance in European Prisions: Is the treatment gap closing?

Of 30 European countries, 24 sanction prison OMT, but only eight provide coverage that matches average EU community levels. It is important to challenge negative perceptions of prison OMT and promote equivalence of care and continuity of treatment.

Publications 20 Февраль 2012English

America’s plague of incarceration

The world is overly familiar with the US “war on terror” prisons like Abu Ghraib and its off-shore Guantanamo prison. Less well known or cared about is the vast complex of more mundane prisons, much of whose population is collateral damage from the equally misnamed “war on…

Publications 8 Февраль 2012English

The rehab archipelago: Forced labor and other abuses in drug detention centers in Southern Vietnam

This report documents the experiences of people confined to 14 detention centers under the authority of the Ho Chi Minh City government. Refusing to work, or violating center rules, results in punishment that in some cases is torture.

Publications 8 Декабрь 2011English

Harm reduction services in prisons of Kyrgyzstan

This film aims to present the progress of the harm reduction programme implementation in prisons of Kyrgyzstan.

Publications 7 Декабрь 2011English

Substance misuse detainees in police custody guidelines for clinical management

This report concludes that dependent individuals should always be cared for and treated without being stigmatised, whatever their particular circumstances.

Publications 22 Ноябрь 2011English

Understanding the public health implications of prisoner reentry in California

When prisoners are released and return to communities, an often overlooked concern is the health care needs that former prisoners have and the role that health care plays in how successfully they reintegrate. This volume examines the health care needs of newly released prisoners in California.

Publications 22 Ноябрь 2011English

Count the Costs briefing - The human rights costs of the war on drugs

This new Count the Costs briefing covers the wide range of human rights issues impacted by the war on drugs.

Publications 9 Сентябрь 2011English

EMCDDA Statistical bulletin 2011

The Statistical bulletin is published yearly by the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and provides access to the most recent statistical data relating to the drugs situation in Europe.

Publications 18 Июль 2011English

IHRA, Open Society Institute and Human Rights Watch - thematic briefs on human rights and drug policy

These briefings address serious human rights abuses that result from drug control efforts, including torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, and denial of essential medicines and basic health services. The briefings are now available in…

Publications 20 Июнь 2011English

IDPC Report - First IDPC seminar on drug policy in the Middle East and North Africa

Last January, IDPC organised its first drug policy seminar in the Middle East and North Africa region, in collaboration with its local partner, the National Rehabilitation Centre, in order to generate constructive discussions and sgare experience on drug policy, and to discuss the possibility to…

Publications 30 Март 2011English

IDPC progress report 2010-2011

Since its creation in 2007, IDPC has become a dynamic collaborative initiative which has gradually expanded both its membership and activities to influence national and international drug policies and programmes. This is the first IDPC progress report, which aims to highlight IDPC's key activities…

Publications 29 Март 2011English

Drug war anniversary - A time for reflection and action

Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs," identifying drug abuse as "public enemy No. 1." Ethan Nadelmann reflects on the consequences of the…

Publications 24 Февраль 2011English

The Global Commission on Drug Policy - Background papers

The Global Commission on Drug Policies has issued a series of background documents on drug policy, in an effort to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and society.

Publications 23 Февраль 2011English

The development of international drug control - Lessons learned and strategic challenges for the future

This paper describes how the foundations of the global drug control system were established, the radicalisation of the system toward more reprressive implementation, consequently leading to soft defections and de-escalation efforts becoming more widespread. The last section projects a future for…