Bolivia's model towards the coca leaf is a multidimensional and participatory model that promotes the industrialisation of coca and improves farmers’ livelihoods.
Harm reduction service provision ended in Montenegro on June 30th 2015 because Montenegro is now classified as an upper- middle income country and, as such, is no longer eligible for further funding by Global Fund for Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria.
The Indonesian government is pushing compulsory treatment for people with drug dependence. This coercive approach is jeopardising health gains made by existing harm reduction programmes and is fertile ground for corruption and abuse.
A new UN study showing a steep rise in the cultivation of the leaf used to make cocaine offers fresh support to Colombia’s recent decision to end the aerial spraying of drug crops with herbicides, as officials recognise repression to be an insufficient tool.
Women with drug problems are heavily stigmatized and find it difficult to leave their homes or families for treatment, according to UNODC's annual World Drug Report.
The executions can be linked to funding for counter-narcotics programmes provided via the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and funded by European states including France and Germany.
If we have learned anything from the century-long history of attempted drug control, it is the futility of having high expectations when it comes to repressive legal measures.
From this survey IDHDP hopes to understand more about where the life saving drug naloxone is and isn’t available as well as its level of accessibility.
In May 2015 members of the Russian Civil Society Mechanism for Monitoring of Drug Policy Reforms in Russia, with technical assistance of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network drafted and submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights a paper named “Russian Drug Policy as a Distorting Reflection of the UN Drug Conventions: Stigmatizing Language, Overreliance on Punitive Restrictions, Indifference to Human Rights, and Obliteration of Science“.