This workshop served to strengthen the relationship between US and Latin American activists and explore options for joint advocacy efforts, with a particular focus on the UNGASS on drugs.
Ohio citizens will vote on whether to legalise recreational and medicinal marijuana use in November, a decision that could concentrate the state’s legal marijuana business to 10 growers.
Evidence shows that the repressive way of dealing with the drug problem in ASEAN countries has done little to reduce the supply and demand of illicit drugs or to deter traffickers and users.
This interview with Tom Kramer, Transnational Institute, provides an insight into the link between drugs and development in Myanmar and the difficulties in finding alternative livelihoods for communities that grow opium.
100 health leaders, professionals and activists from 60 government institutions, civil society and affected communities have expressed concerns over challenges in providing access to essential treatments for HIV, tuberculosis and opioid dependence in areas of Donbas in East Ukraine.
A federal law that closed the gap in sentence severity for offenses involving crack cocaine and those involving powder cocaine has led to fewer federal prosecutions and a reduction in the federal prisoner population, according to a new report from the US Sentencing Commission.
Providing OST alongside ART to people who inject drugs results in a significantly greater reduction in deaths compared to providing either intervention alone, a study of the Canadian province of British Columbia has shown.
The conflict between the Ukrainian government and Russian-supported separatists threatens the lives of civilian patients who have been cut off, or soon will be, from lifesaving medicines.
This teleconference includes presentations by leading experts sharing insights on synthetic cannabinoids, “Flakka”, “Bath Salts”, and other new psychoactive substances.