Publications from IDPC Members

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12 November 2014

An injection of reason: Critical analysis of bill C-2 in Canada

The Government of Canada devised Bill C-2 (An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act), a piece legislation that would make supervised consumption services harder to establish.

30 October 2014

IDPC/Youth RISE case study series: Drug policy, harm reduction and young people in the United States

This case study offers an overview of some of the main drug policy issues facing young people in the USA, looking at the impacts of the drug policy and harm reduction on young people.

29 October 2014

Care when there is no cure - Ensuring the right to palliative care in Mexico

Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-life care.

17 October 2014

Marijuana legalisation is an opportunity to modernise international drug treaties

The legalisation of recreational cannabis is obvious tension with three international treaties that together commit the United States to punish and even criminalise related activities.

13 October 2014

倡导管制药物使用者的人权

本研究探讨如何以及在何种程度上倡导人权可以进一步提高伤害减少策略和服务的有效性。

7 October 2014

国际药物管制系统的安排

这个报告强调了关于国际调度控制受管制药物的失败，并提出确保以健康和证据为基础的体系的重要建议。

7 October 2014

用来减少伤害的资金出现危机

该报告呼吁国际捐助者，各国政府和联合国机构采取具体行动来解决资金危机。

6 October 2014

Advocacy for the human rights of people who use drugs

This study examines how and to what extent human rights advocacy can further improve the effectiveness of harm reduction strategies and services.

25 September 2014

FIFTH “WHITE BOOK” on the 2006 Italian drug legislation and its consequences on the penal and prison systems

The Fifth White Book provides a final evaluation on the consequences on prisons’ overcrowding of the harsh legislation approved in 2006 under the Berlusconi’s government.

23 September 2014

Review of the Liberian Controlled Drug and Substances Act and Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency Act

This analysis suggests that the new legislation in Liberia is a step in the wrong direction. Instead of adopting a right-based approach wherein drug use would be seen primarily as a public health issue and where law-enforcement initiatives would focus on high-level traffickers rather than small-scale dealers, the new laws broadly criminalize every aspect of drug-related activity.

17 September 2014

INPUD human rights submission against USA's treatment of pregnant women

The report denounces the USA’s failure to address the growing body of counterproductive and regressive state laws, policies, and practices that substantially undermine women’s dignity and status as persons under the law.

28 August 2014

Washington’s marijuana legalisation grows knowledge, not just pot: A report on the state’s strategy to assess reform

This paper outlines Washington's side-by-side experiments: the marijuana experiment and the knowledge experiment.