This consultation document seeks your comments on proposals to consolidate and review specific provisions under the UK Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 and on the accompanying impact assessment.
A special agreement between the Italian Government’s Drug Policy Department and the US ONDCP was signed to foster cooperation between the two countries. This is likely to give more importance to the Italian experience on drug policy, which remains conservative with regards to harm reduction.
The Deputy Director, Programs, reporting to the Executive Director, will work with the Executive Director, board and staff to develop and implement DPA’s vision and strategic direction and ensure that its work is innovative, high-impact and strategically focused.
The Deputy Director, External Affairs, will provide the leadership, strategic direction, management and coordination for expanding DPA’s fundraising and outreach to new and emerging constituencies.
The ban will initially run for 12 months. Next year New Zealand's conservative government plans to bring in comprehensive changes based on a review of the country's drug legislation by the Law Commission.
US District Court Judge Mary Scriven of Orlando threw out the Florida Drug Abuse Prevention and Control law on the grounds that it violates due process because it does not require prosecutors to prove a person knew he or she possessed illegal drugs.
Drug trafficking expert Ricardo Soberon was appointed as the new executive president of Peru's National commission for the development of life without drugs (Devida).
The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is seeking to recruit two Deputy Directors to be based in New York, for the positoins of Deputy Director-External affairs and Deputy Director-Programs.
ThinkingDrugs is a new interactive website allowing the public to explore some of the arguments that are central to drug policy in the form of an argument map.
Снижение цен на препараты для лечения ВИЧ стало возможным в течение последнего десятилетия благодаря активной позиции гражданского общества, ВИЧ‐активистов и правительств стран, затронутых эпидемией, и явилось результатом давления, которое они оказали на фармкомпании. Подобная стратегия поможет остановить эпидемию ВГС и спасти жизни миллионов людей, живущих с гепатитом С.
On World Hepatitis Day, EHRN calls for civil society to demand HCV treatment price reduction in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in order for the millions of people living with HCV to gain access to life saving drugs.