The Bolivian government plans to expand the legal production of coca leaves, the raw material from which cocaine is produced, in a bid to reduce illegal cultivation of the plants.
Paranoid Government Disorder is characterised by state paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalised mistrust of civil society. Peter Sarosi discuss its "epidemiology" and "treatment" plans to fight the global repressive trend in governance.
A one-off dose of the drug could help people with alcohol dependency reduce their intake by ‘erasing’ drink-related memories, say psychologists testing treatment.
A new crackdown on drugs which started on 1st January has imprisoned more than one thousand PWUD and drug suppliers throughout the country. But can crowded prisons and busy courts keep up?
Based on Trump’s cabinet and law-and-order rhetoric, the incoming American administration seems poised to look backwards to a time when violence reigned and countless Latin American lives were thrown away for the pipe dream of a “drug-free world”.
In spite of being both inhumane and ineffective, in Cambodia there are 17 compulsory drug treatment centres which are due to be phased out as voluntary treatment centres are built.
The war on drugs has devastating human and economic costs, fuels macroeconomic illicit markets, and has not suppressed illicit demand for controlled substances, time has come for a new approach to drug policy.
Marlene Mortler, the German government's drug commissioner, had lobbied for the decision to allow patients to buy cannabis from their local pharmacy with a doctor's prescription.
Dainius Pūras, UN special rapporteur on the right to health, and Julie Hannah, co-director of the BMJ, call for the end of drug prohibition and criminalisation.
The new Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, pushed for decriminalisation of use of all drugs for personal consumption when he was Prime Minister of Portugal. Could he introduce his comprehensive strategy to reduce drug-related harm on the international stage?
Ontario’s health minister says “more can be done” to tackle the opioid crisis and has committed to funding three supervised safe injection sites in Toronto at an estimated annual cost of about $1.6 million and an initial cost of $400,000.
