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12 July 2011

US Government releases 2011 National Drug Control Strategy

This Strategy coordinates an unprecedented government-wide public health and safety approach to reduce drug use and its consequences in the United States. The Administration's new Strategy continues to expand upon a balanced approach to drug control that emphasizes community-based drug prevention, integration of drug treatment into the mainstream health care system, innovations in the criminal justice system to break the cycle of drug use and crime, and international partnerships to disrupt transnational drug trafficking organizations.
30 June 2011

Al Jazeera documentary - Mexico: impunity and profits

Sinaloa and Juarez cartels are fighting for the city and the access it provides to the multi-billion dollar US drug market only a few hundred metres away. On this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through.
30 June 2011

Al Jazeera documentary - Filipino drug mules

The Philippines is well-known for exporting domestic workers across the world, but as low-income jobs disappear in the global recession, increasing numbers of desperate Filipinos are resorting to something much more dangerous – smuggling drugs as mules.
30 June 2011

Al Jazeera documentary - Mexico's hidden war

In the second episode of a two-part series, Josh Rushing and the Fault Lines team find out how campesino communities caught in the narco-economy are resisting repression and dispossession.
23 June 2011

UNODC World Drug Report 2011

This report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime provides an overview of the global drug situation.
23 June 2011

EMCDDA Drug Policy Profiles - Portugal

This first profile describes the national drug policy of Portugal, including national strategies and action plans, the legal context within which they operate and the public funds spent, or committed, to resource them. It also describes the political bodies and mechanisms set up to coordinate the response to the multi-faceted problem and the systems of evaluation that may help to improve future policy.
22 June 2011

IDPC Briefing Paper - Policy responses to drug issues in Malaysia

This paper provides an insight into Malaysian drug policies and the environment in which the national response to drugs has been developing in terms of harm reduction, prisons, drug treatment, law enforcement responses and civil society participation. An analysis of the situation concludes with recommendations for further drug policy development. 
21 June 2011

Harm Reduction: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Set of Interventions

This poster by Harm Reduction International provides an overview of the growing body of literature which demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of harm reduction programmes such as needle and syringe exchange and opioid substitution therapy.
21 June 2011

Lebanon - Filling the gap: Meeting the needs for treatment of substance users and treatment centres

Tackling substance dependence through treatment instead of punishment is still one of the most critical issues in Lebanon. In 2008, Skoun, Lebanese Addiction Center, launched the project "For a Greater Respect for the Rights of Drug Addicts" to analyse why the 1998 law (which provides for decriminalisation of drug use and treatment for dependent users) is still scarcely applied, working with the police force and judicial system to sensitise them on the nature of drug dependence and effectiveness of treatment versus incarceration.