The New York NGO Committee on Drugs (“NYNGOC”) announces the election of the following new members of the Executive Committee at its Annual General Meeting held June 20, 2014.
A coalition of medical and drug experts is calling for a second supervised injecting centre to be opened in Sydney, after a spike in overdoses from heroin and similar drugs.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy has launched the campaign, “Hey, We Need to Talk About Drugs”, a series of advertisements addressing key facts and recommendations around the failure of the war on drugs.
Lured by easy money, an escape from poverty or family pressure, thousands of women are locked up for drug offences in Thailand, which has one of the world's highest rates of female imprisonment.
Former President of Switzerland, Ruth Dreifuss, and former President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio, call for nations to set up a new international drug strategy for the twenty-first century.
Several Canadian cities are looking to expand the use of a medication that has been shown to save lives by countering the effects of a life-threatening prescription drug overdose.
In 2010, after a two-year boom of legal highs businesses on Polish high streets, the government decided to crack down on this trade. However, despite their efforts, the imposed ban has had little effect.
Uruguay, which recently passed a law making it the first country to legalize the production and sale of cannabis, will also allow doctors to prescribe the drug to treat certain medical conditions.
Jamaica will decriminalise the possession of small amounts of marijuana, and allow possession for some medical and scientific purposes and for religious purposes.
In a surprise move in late May, the Peruvian President fired Peru’s top drug official, Carmen Macias, replacing her with a longtime confidant, former Defense Minister Luis Alberto Otarola.