A destructive threat is jeopardizing progress in West Africa and beyond: international drug cartels are undermining our countries and communities, and devastating lives.
Country after country a vast array of new psychoactive substances, rapidly spread via online sources, is causing havoc for law and policy makers and are now looking to the example of recent New Zealand legislation.
Participants in the Staying Safe hepatitis C prevention project gave invaluable insight into life-saving protective practices. The findings could be used to make harm reduction messages much more relevant.
On 2 June a nine-year-old boy died at the hands of his parents as a result of their desperation to end his unrelieved pain. The parents then committed suicide.
On Thursday 26th June 2014, hundreds of activists in more than 50 cities around the world will make their voices heard as part of the global Support. Don't punish campaign – funded through the CAHR project.
In February, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that most of the 2006 drug law norms were unconstitutional and the Court of Cassation decided that people sentenced and incarcerated under the illegitimate norms have the right to be resentenced.
Representatives from Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and Tajikistan met in May to launch a regional project seeking to encourage more domestic spending on harm reduction programmes.