Mexico’s introduction of a new system for prescribing and dispensing strong prescription pain medicines will significantly improve health care for people with advanced illnesses.
This congress conveyed the importance of joint advocacy efforts to address the drug problem by prioritising a health-based approach and reiterating the importance of efforts to abolish the death penalty at the UNGASS in 2016.
In March 2012 , a small group of Belizeans began to study the possibility of amending the current legislation in order to make recommendations to the government to decriminalize the possession of up to ten grams of marijuana.
As the criminal justice system continues to put many women in prison for non-serious crimes, it raises the question as to whether or not women's individual circumstances and the social context of the offences have adequately been taken into consideration.
In Bahawalpur, Pakistan, people who inject drugs can significantly reduce their risk of HIV infection with the use of opiate substitution treatments such as methadone or buprenorphine and risk of transmission with antiretroviral therapy.
Depenalisation, decriminalisation and legalisation. There is no universal agreement on these terms, but it is helpful to explore the different ideas that lie behind them if we are to understand better what they mean when they are used in the debate on different approaches to controlling the supply and use of drugs.
About fifty journalists from across the West African sub-region have gathered in Accra, Ghana, in a two-day media workshop to build their capacities on issues affecting drug policy in West Africa.
