International coalitions of harm reduction experts, applauded the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold the human rights of all Canadians by allowing Insite - Vancouver's life-saving supervised injection site - to remain open.
Nesta Declaração, policiais reafirmão a necessidade da repressão rigorosa ao crime organizado, à lavagem de dinheiro e à corrupção, bem como promover uma abordagem mais eficaz e construtiva em relação ao uso de drogas.
In this declaration, police officers from around the world reaffirm the continued need for tough enforcement against organised crime, money laundering and corruption, but call for more effective and constructive approaches with regard to drug use.
Cambodia has opened the country’s first methadone-treatment programs/centers in September 2011, in approach to help heroine users. The methadone program will be strictly voluntary.
Some 80,000 farmers' families in Colombia depend on illicit coca bush cultivation to survive. UNODC runs projects to wean farmers off illicit crop cultivation by encouraging them to pursue alternative livelihoods
Calderon urged nations that are the biggest buyers of illegal drugs to consider "market alternatives" if they can’t find ways to reduce consumption.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said that a regional South American bloc should "decertify'' the U.S. in its counternarcotics efforts, hitting back at Washington's criticism of his South American nation on drugs. Morales accused the United States of being the root cause of the international drug trade as a leading consumer of cocaine.
The President of the INCB emphasized that millions of people around the world are afflicted by mental illnesses, which are non-communicable diseases and which include substance use disorders. Substance abuse requires prevention and treatment and is a contributing factor to some other non-communicable diseases.
Newly installed Peruvian President Ollanta Humala is facing the first serious challenge to his authority as coca farmer unions have gone on strike to protest the resumption of coca plant eradication. Last month, Humala's government announced a temporary halt to eradication in the Upper Huallaga River Valley, but now eradication is again underway, and the coca farmer unions are up in arms.
Some 51 percent of the HIV/AIDS-infected households in Cambodia are living in hunger, said a new UN survey, calling for more attention to the need for HIV-sensitive social protection mechanisms.