Uganda's persistently high adult HIV incidence is caused in part by the lack of investment in inclusive service delivery for criminalised and marginalised populations.
Drug courts that receive federal funding will no longer be allowed to ban medication-assisted treatment, which doctors and scientists view as the most effective care for opioid dependent users.
China proposes to restrict the availability of ketamine internationally placing it in Schedule I of the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances and deeming it to have no medical use.
This conference formed an inclusive debate to work towards creating a constructive legal and human rights-based approach for ayahuasca drinking practices.
It often seems counterintuitive to politicians and bureaucrats that the best way to help drug users survive an HIV epidemic is to provide them with syringes and heroin-like drugs.
On 8 December 2014, police officers from the Kabalagala Police Station rounded up and arrested over 70 drug users in the same vicinity including UHRN’s peer educators and members.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy calls on European institutions to raise Europe’s voice in the global debate on drug policy, and to share the results of decades of pragmatic and scientifically monitored efforts.
Compared to dependent drug users outside treatment, methadone patients are less likely to die, less likely to inject, less likely to contract blood-borne viruses and they use fewer drugs.
The US President’s Budget, submitted to the U.S. Congress, contains over $12 billion in Federal funds for reducing drug use in the United States for fiscal year 2016 through prevention and treatment programs.