EHRN and the European Commission launched a project to work on drug policy evaluation mechanisms and promote transparent and evidence-based decision-making processes.
Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but necessary response to an epidemic of addiction that is claiming tens of thousands of lives each year.
The Summit brought together drug policy experts from across the world to Ireland as the country’s government takes significant steps in improving how it deals with illicit drug use.
Policy change leading to those caught smoking cannabis to be fined rather than arrested and prosecuted is expected to be introduced within three months.
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”.
