The Pompidou Group analyses the impact of parental drug use on children, highlighting how criminalising and stigmatising policies create further harm to children, with suggestions to improve drug policy to address the needs of both children and parents who use drugs.
The Council of Europe offers a self-assessment tool to encourage states to better understand the situation on the ground and consider reforms as needed.
WHO Director-General offers an overview of recent developments, including in relation to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and access to controlled medicines, and calls for a public health approach.
Frontline Aids highlight the extent of police intimidation and harassment of marginalised groups, particularly sex workers and people who use drugs, with many being forced into silence, allowing the police to act with impunity.
Rivera-Aguirre et al. identified no changes in the prevalence of risky and frequent cannabis use among secondary school students following the legal regulation of cannabis
Birgin et al. document how state-driven stigma, criminalisation, and abuse create gendered barriers in access to services and drive women imprisonment, prompting mobilisation in resistance.
