At the occasion of the Congress, Gloria Lai, IDPC Senior Policy Officer, highlighted the negative consequences of disproportionately harsh drug laws, and their specific impact on incarceration rates and prison overcrowding.
In the most landmark provisions, the document proposes the creation of a Technical Secretariat of Drugs, under the control of the president, to regulate and control over 100 substances.
A report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer has reopened the debate about the advisability of aerial spraying with glyphosate in Colombia. Nevertheless, the Colombian Ministry of Health is keeping silent on the official propaganda that maintains that glyphosate is not damaging to human health.
With an eye to UNGASS 2016, the United Nations University is convening a panel discussion to consider where common ground might be found on public health issues.
The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) programme in Belltown has reduced criminal-recidivism rates by up to 60 percent for the poor, chronically homeless, low-level drug dealers, users and sex workers it was designed to help.
The main aim of the workshop was to develop the capacity of civil society organisations in the region on issues related to drug policy, drug prevention and treatment, harm reduction, security and governance, and effective advocacy.
On 7th April, the French Parliament (Assemblée nationale) adopted the experimentation of safe injection rooms for a period of a maximum of six years, after more than four hours of lively debates between the left wing party and the right wing, UMP.
Alexei Kurmanayevsky, former staff member at the Vershina Kazan rehabilitation clinic in Russia, recounts how he was harassed and fired because of his views on substitution therapy.
The Drug Reporter video advocacy team attended the 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the largest drug policy gathering in the world and have shared some great videos from the day.
