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23 September 2014

Ending the ‘war on drugs’ through policies underpinned by an economic analysis

Underpinned by an economic analysis, this article calls on the government to reallocate resources away from damaging and counterproductive policies based on punitive and enforcement led policies and to focus more on harm reduction.

23 September 2014

Presumption of guilt: The global overuse of pretrial detention

The global overuse of pretrial detention is a widespread, deeply harmful, yet it is frequently overlooked.

23 September 2014

Ketamine for depression: new review highlights the need for an RCT

This study suggests that single administrations ketamine are an efficient in the rapid treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression.

23 September 2014

Recreational drug use, polydrug use, and sexual behaviour in HIV-diagnosed men who have sex with men in the UK

This article reviews patterns of drug use and associations with sexual behaviours in HIV-diagnosed MSM in the UK.

22 September 2014

Regulation of marijuana by the Brazilian Senate: a public health issue

The National Senate and Chamber of Deputies recently launched a discussion on the regulation of marijuana in Brazil, urged by a citizens’ petition submitted in February 2014.

22 September 2014

Colorado’s rollout of legal marijuana is succeeding: A report on the state’s implementation of legalization

Colorado’s move to legalise marijuana was historic and did something which no other state had ever done: legalise retail marijuana.

18 September 2014

Prendere il controllo: percorsi verso politiche delle droghe che funzionino

Qui solo qualche rapido cenno ai contenuti del rapporto, a partire dalle raccomandazioni finali.

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.

17 September 2014

Blame and banishment: The underground HIV epidemic affecting children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

This UNICEF report brings to life the experiences of children, families and young people living with HIV.

17 September 2014

Colombia, more than three decades of toxic spraying. Enough!

It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial spraying in Colombia, demanding the current government to definitely defer an ecocide and incompetent policy.

16 September 2014

User-Dealer, those who have been forgotten by harm reduction

This paper focuses on the often neglected set of individuals who engage in both the use and selling of illicit drugs.

15 September 2014

Opioid substitution therapy protects against hepatitis C virus acquisition in people who inject drugs

The authors examined the acquisition of HCV among PWID enrolled in a prospective observational study based in Sydney, New South Wales.