Drug related violence

News5 March 2025

What you need to know about the criminal groups the US just labeled ‘terrorists’

Criminalised supply networks are harmful, but designating them as terrorist groups is an ill-fitting response that will disproportionately harm vulnerabilised people.

Publications14 November 2024

After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro

GI-TOC explores legal regulation's potential to diminish the power held by organised crime groups, mitigate violence and reduce incarceration.

Publications15 September 2024

Drug market risk environment and navigational strategies of street-level dealers in Nigeria

Nelson et al. investigate the many tactics street dealers use to mitigate risks of police harassment, arrest, and violence, and call on the government to focus on systemic rather than law enforcement solutions.

Publications1 April 2024

EU drug markets analysis 2024: key insights for policy and practice

EMCDDA and Europol raise concerns on the threats of highly potent synthetic substances and the need to invest in harm reduction approaches, as one of the policy options to address the drug situation in Europe.

News4 October 2023

US quietly strikes deal to send military to Ecuador amid drug cartel explosion

The agreement is made against the backdrop of soaring violence in Ecuador as well as a long history of US involvement in Latin American drug policy.

News2 October 2023

Australia: Drug-detection dogs are wrong more than right, data reveals

Police drug-detection dogs in NSW exhibit an alarming rate of false-positive detections for drugs among festival-goers, raising concerns about the effectiveness of strip-searches and other violent, degrading and humiliating policing responses to drugs.

News22 August 2023

Drug policy and pathways to peace in Colombia

As momentum for drug policy reform grows in Colombia, the growers of northern Cauca insist on a clear demand: that profits from legal regulation do not go to armed groups or big business, but to the growers themselves.

Publications22 August 2023

Youth response to the 2023 World Drug Report

The Paradigma Youth Coalition present their response to the 2023 World Drug Report, emphasising the importance of involving young people in shaping progressive drug policies with evidence-based approaches, inclusivity and harm reduction at their core.

News16 August 2023

Language matters: Is my country a 'narco-state'?

By flattening the complex relationship between state actors, citizens and globalised informal drug economies, the term often serves to fuel stigma, harmful stereotypes and further violence.

News31 July 2023

Marginalising key populations impacting efforts to end HIV/AIDS epidemic

Following the release of the UNAIDS report titled 'The path that ends AIDS', this article underscores how ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic necessitates drug decriminalisation.

News3 July 2023

Prisons turned into killing fields in Iran as drug-related executions almost triple this year

The cruel and alarming surge in drug-related executions in Iran serves as a stark reminder that the death penalty violates the right to life and should be opposed in all cases without exception.

Publications9 June 2023

CHECK magazine - Women who use drugs - 3rd issue

EHRA publish their latest edition of CHECK magazine, focusing on the disproportionate levels of stigmatisation and discrimination that women who use drugs face as a result of existing gender inequalities and prohibitionist policies.

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