While HIV prevalence and needle sharing among current injecting drug users in China have declined dramatically and are correlated with the scale-up of national harm reduction efforts, the recent, rapid increased use of ‘nightclub drugs’ presents a new challenge.
Based on accumulated evidence and data on non-medical use, diversion and trafficking, and evidence of ketamine’s therapeutic value, there are serious concerns around placing the substance under international control.
This report analyses the effects of complicity of organised crime cells and public authorities in Mexico, where corruption and impunity are rife and civil society suffers the most.
In just 16 months, the Report managed to open up a discussion as frank as it was unprecedented of all the options available in the quest for more effective policies for dealing with the drug problem in the Hemisphere.
Women who use drugs are heavily stigmatised, as well as being frequently ignored, invisiblised, and sidelined in the formation of policy and approaches to harm reduction and service provision.
This report discusses alternatives to cannabis prohibition, highlighting that these should not be viewed as a binary choice between prohibition and a for-profit commercial model.
This publication explores how the growth of the cannabis social clubs model in Spain demonstrates that cannabis legalisation does not necessarily lead to commercialisation.
