This briefing reviews how major UN entities and international oganisations in Geneva cover drug policy, their current contribution to the UNGASS process, and suggests pathways to strengthen their involvement in the debate on drugs.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Dainius Pūras, delivers a critique of the current drug war and its impact on Human Rights, suggesting areas of meaningful debate and change during the UNGASS process and beyond.
This document is aimed at civil society organisations who want to learn more about integrated services for key populations into general health systems.
The study aimed to assess the effectiveness for Scotland’s levels of opioid-related deaths between the two time periods, before (2006-10) versus after (2011-13), as well as to assess cost-effectiveness of the programme.
This report details the first economic evaluation comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the two dominant drug dependence treatment approaches in Vietnam.
The document includes reports from Chair George Allan and Director David Liddell, alongside articles explaining key aspects of work carried out by the various departments of SDF.
This report, published in the Health and Human Rights Journal, looks at Global Advocacy for palliative care and access to pain medicines, with case studies from India, Kenya, and Ukraine.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime shows that the total value of illicit heroin and opium trafficked from Afghanistan to Western Europe through the Balkans amounts to some $28 billion every year.
This study explores the trend on high risk behaviours within the prison-setting and to assess the level of acceptance from the inmates and wardens as well as the existing challenges and problems.
This joint briefing paper by NSWP and INPUD highlights the specific needs and rights of sex workers who use drugs, as a community that spans two key populations.
