The key messages included in this report from the Correlation Network represent the most important aspects of interventions targeting injecting drug users.
Questo scritto ha lo scopo di esaminare i vantaggi e gli inconvenienti delle due diverse opzioni alla luce dell’esperienza italiana e se queste soluzioni siano davvero in grado di risolvere il problema.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages and the shortcomings of the different options to distinguish drug possession for personal use and supply and trafficking, based on the Italian experience, as well as their real effectiveness in dealing with the problem.
This report describes Ukrainian government policies that make it impossible for cancer patients living in rural areas to get essential pain medications.
This article explains why the 1998 Lebanese drug law has not been fully implemented, and analyses the consequences this has had on people who use drugs.
Dopo 5 anni di applicazione della legge 49/2006 Antigone, CNCA, Forum Droghe e La Società della Ragione hanno pubblicato il SECONDO LIBRO BIANCO SULLA LEGGE FINI-GIOVANARDI che contiene l'illustrazione e il commento dei dati sulle conseguenze penali e sulle sanzioni amministrative e i riflessi sull’amministrazione della giustizia e sul carcere delle politiche proibizioniste italiane sulle sostanze.
This "White Book" shows that the number of drug offenders among the overall prison population is increasing and the drug legislation may be considered as the main reason for the present overcrowding of Italian prisons; law enforcement is focused on cannabis; therapeutic alternatives to incarceration are dropping; the number of people sanctioned for personal use is in sharp rise. The "White Book" calls for an immediate change in the drug legislation and suggests key reforms.
In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of President Nixon declaring “war on drugs,” LEAP, a group of police, judges and jailers who support legalisation, released a report showing how the Obama administration is ramping up a war it claims ended two years ago.
Over 50 policy makers, practitioners, academics, and representatives from NGOs and governmental organisations attended the meeting, to discuss the Portuguese decriminalisation model, cannabis policy reform, and the agenda and global initiatives at the 54th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Alternative development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocates and detractors debating whether such programmes contribute to decreasing the cultivation of llegal crops. However, little is known about the opinions of the people targeted by these programmes and the implications that they have for their daily lives. This analysis hopes to play a role in correcting this imbalance.
This report, co-authored by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Harm Reduction International, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Foundations, documents some of the abuses perpetrated in the name of drug rehabilitation.