Scotland is the first country to introduce a national naloxone program. Since 2010 the number of recently released prisoners dying from opioid-related overdose has been halved.
Legal regulation models around the globe might inform changes in domestic policy in West Africa, have a look at this great infographic comparing cannabis regulation in the Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA.
Students for Drug Policy reform aims to bring young people together and create a safe civic space for students of all political and ideological stripes to have honest conversations about drugs and drug policies in Ghana.
Treating and curing active drug and alcohol users, and removing prison as the primary intervention for those with substance use disorders, must be at the center of the global response to viral hepatitis.
In February 2016, Macedonia legalised medicinal cannabis but the law is far from ideal. Healthy Options Project Skopje – HOPS – carried out an analysis of the law.
The U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights have sharply criticised President Duterte's approach to drug policy and Philippine extra-judicial killings
The war on drugs drives mass incarceration leading to overcrowding and some of the worst prison conditions seen in the world - a "human rights disaster".
