Women and mothers in Brazil are honouring the memories of their lost loved ones by advocating for justice and an end to the state-sanctioned violence of the 'war on drugs'.
Dertadian explores how prohibitionist policies serve as a colonial tool and calls to centre the experiences and knowledges of Indigenous and colonised peoples in drug policy scholarship.
Fleming et al. call for scaling up housing-based interventions, and better understanding the role that contextual factors play in overdose vulnerability.
IDPC draws on wide-ranging data from UN, government, academic and civil society sources to conclude that there has been little, incomplete or no progress in achieving the goals set out in the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Drugs.
The Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation outlines how social responsibility and equity can be enhanced within Canadian cannabis legislation, emphasising the inclusion of underrepresented racialised people and genders, reparations for the harms of cannabis prohibition through reinvestment of taxes, and amnesty for previous cannabis convictions.
Interrupting Criminalization, Drug Policy Alliance, and In Our Names Network advance a Black feminist approach to ending the war on drugs by centring the experiences of Black women, girls, and trans and gender-nonconforming people.
Drug Policy Alliance underscore how chronic underinvestment in public services and the criminalisation of social issues have fuelled several concurrent crises, calling for increased investment in jobs, education, housing, and health care.