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23 March 2010

University of the Andes - 'Illicit Drugs in Colombia'

This book aims to contribute to the public debate about illicit drugs in Colombia by bringing together contributions from different fields to the study of drug policy in Colombia. The first part of the book is devoted to describing the dimension of cocaine production and trafficking and the extent and prevalence of drug consumption in Colombia. The second section addresses the effectiveness and costs of anti-drug policies, focusing mainly on eradication campaigns, the interdiction of drug shipments and alternative development programmes. The third section is devoted to the study of the interaction between international relations and drug policy in Colombia. The fourth section of the book will study the legal aspects behind the so-called 'war on drugs'. The last section of the book has different contributions on the topic of institutions and drugs in Colombia, including impunity, electoral participation, corruption, etc.
23 March 2010

UNODC Report - Responding to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases among drug users

This report was prepared pursuant to Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 49/4, entitled "Responding to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases among drug users". It contains an overview of the technical assistance provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to Member States in developing comprehensive demand reduction strategies and measures, including HIV/AIDS prevention and care in the context of drug abuse. The report provides an overview of the global situation with regard to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases among drug users and a summary of relevant activities implemented by UNODC in 2008 and 2009. It includes recommendations and indicates gaps and remaining challenges for responding to HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases among drug users".
23 March 2010

Russia's declaration at the 2010 CND: 'There is no evidence that OST works'

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union’s (HCLU) video advocacy team attended a press conference organized by the Russian delegation in Vienna at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), where the representatives of the world's governments discussed the burning questions of international drug control policies. HCLU asked Mr. Viktor Ivanov, the head of the Federal Drug Control Service, the largest anti-drug agency in the world, to explain why his country does not tackle the demand side problems present in Russia with evidence based interventions, such as Opiate Substitution Treatment (OST). Mr. Ivanov declared that there is no evidence that methadone treatment works and in those former Soviet countries where OST was introduced it proved to be a failure. However, he also said that there is a possibility to experiment with methadone in the regional level.
23 March 2010

New Zealand Drug Foundation video on drug law review

The New Zealand Drug Foundation has produced a short video from an interview with the authors of the review of New Zealand's 35-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act. The video can be visualised online via the following link: http://vimeo.com/9643269.
5 March 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - Time for an Impact Assessment of Drug Policy

This briefing paper calls for a much needed Impact Assessment of drug policy. All stakeholders in the drugs debate share the goal of a policy and legal structures that maximise social, environmental, physical and psychological wellbeing. However the drugs debate has been emotive, polarised and deadlocked and as a result, policy development has lacked objective scrutiny. Impact Assessments would bring drug policy back into the arena of science.
3 March 2010

IDPC Drug Policy Guide, First edition

The ‘war on drugs’ has failed to eradicate drug markets and use. A growing number of policy options are available to address drug-related harms. The IDPC Guide brings together global evidence and best practice to assist national policy makers in the design and implementation of drug policies. The Guide will be updated regularly to reflect new developments in the drug policy field.
3 March 2010

IDPC Magazine 1 - Human rights violations in the name of drug control

Welcome to the first issue of the IDPC magazine. The stories in this inaugural issue tell us of the disproportionate harm suffered by individuals because of badly focused resources that target low-level “offending”, and of the human rights abuses committed in the name of drug control.
1 March 2010

Drug-misusing offenders: results from the 2008 cohort for England and Wales

This report presents statistics on the proven offending by individuals identified as Class A drug misusing offenders. Both drug use amongst offenders, and their levels of offending can be difficult to measure with confidence. The data presented in this report are intended to provide a proxy measure which indicates the level of proven offending by known (Class A) drug-misusing individuals who have been identified through their contact with the criminal justice system.
26 February 2010

Briefing Note - Development oriented drug policy

In the long term, the task at the international level is to establish an alternative discourse regarding development-oriented drug policy, in which the voices of civil society actors should be heard.
24 February 2010

Human Rights Watch: “Skin on the Cable”

In this 93-page report Human Rights Watch documents detainees being beaten, raped, forced to donate blood, and subjected to painful physical punishments such as "rolling like a barrel" and being chained while standing in the sun. Human Rights Watch also reported that a large number of detainees told of receiving rotten or insect-ridden food and symptoms of diseases consistent with nutritional deficiencies.