Research indicates that youth are not only more likely than adults to engage in risky substance use, but also to experience greater harm from that use. This can negatively impact their health, academic achievement s, safety and, especially in the case of impair ed driving, the lives of others.
HRN’s newsletter 'The Voice of Harm Reduction' is a new tool to update our partners on EHRN's work and the most urgent regional matters related to harm reduction and drug policy in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
This UNAIDS rpeort demands evidence-based responses that solidly focus on and involve key populations most at risk, are adequately resourced and grounded in human rights. Increasingly, countries are acting on this knowledge – and reaping the rewards.
This US monograph explores the effectiveness of the security and law enforcement and socio-economic approaches adopted in Mexico over the past several years to combat the drug trafficking organizations
This article makes a compelling case for shifting from the current drug control strategy to reduce the horrific violence that has been spreading in Mexico.
Young people met during the III Latin American and I Mexican Drug Policy Conference and agreed on key messages under which to work across the region. This video serves as the first element of a regional advocacy campaign calling for drug policy reform.
This is an analysis of the data presented in the UNODC World Drug Report, and includes a critique of Mr Fedotov's contribution to the report and a related review of his first year in post.
A study by University of B.C. journalism students says the global war on illicit drugs is preventing patients suffering terminal illnesses in some countries from having sufficient access to morphine to control their pain.
The year-long study done by the UBC Graduate School of Journalism involved teams travelling to India, Ukraine and Uganda to see how those countries manage pain.
When medical marijuana dispensaries close, crime rises in the surrounding neighborhood when compared to areas where dispensaries are allowed to remain open, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The findings challenge the common wisdom that marijuana dispensaries promote criminal activity.
