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.
“Hepatitis affects everyone, everywhere. Know it, confront it.” This is the slogan for this year’s first-ever World Health Organization–sponsored World Hepatitis Day.
The position will be based in London and involved with the design and implementation of the communications and outreach strategies of the Global Drug Policy Program.
About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across this country of 190 million people. They have far fewer resources to deal with it, despite a booming economy that expanded 7.5 percent last year.
With this consultation, the European Commission wishes to explore the extent to which detention issues (following a criminal offence) impact on mutual trust, and consequently on mutual recognition and judicial cooperation generally within the European Union.
Martin Jelsma (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam) racconta per la rubrica di Fuoriluogo sul Manifesto del 20 luglio 2011 la crociata contro la Bolivia avviata dall'INCB dell'ONU.