This short paper summarises the five fundamental principles for effective drug policies that have been developed and agreed by IDPC members through research, analysis and debate over the last two years.
This report, from the Washington Office on Latin America, analyses the most recent US government figures on prices of Cocaine in wholesale and retail markets, identifying a recent reduction in prices.
This is the report of the 2007 Wilton Park conference on drug policy, covering speeches and discussion amongst an invited group of senior policymakers, diplomats and academics.
The High Point, North Carolina police department received the 2007 Innovations in American Government Award from the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. This prestigious award was given to High Point for their successful strategy to eliminate neighborhood drug markets.
The objective of this study was to investigate the possibility that opium poppy crops in Afghanistan could be used to produce opium-based medicines such as morphine and codeine.
This article provides an analysis of two articles published in Volume 176, Issue 6 of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, published in November 2006. These articles shed light on policies that Canada should adopt to stem the spread of HIV infection among users of illicit drugs.
In this review, the authors summarize the findings from evaluations in those 3 years, including characteristics of IDUs at the facility, public injection drug use and publicly discarded syringes, HIV risk behaviour, use of addiction treatment services and other community resources, and drug-related crime rates.
Recent research into drug problems in a number of cultures and settings has indicated that a disproportionate amount of the harm and costs arising from drug use is associated with the relatively small proportion of dependent users. With the increasing recognition of the scale of the problems associated with dependent drug use, and that these problems cannot simply be resolved by enforcement action against the target group, treatment for drug addiction has progressed in the last 20 years from being a marginal and poorly resourced activity to, in many countries, the central pillar of the national drug policy.
This article explores the empirical effects of U.S. drug policy on coca cultivation in the Central Andes. It assesses the impact of U.S. military assistance on the production of coca in the Central Andes, while controlling for other explanatory variables that influence coca cultivation.
These studies provided estimates which were the best available at the time, but they were conceived as a starting point for further developments and hence also identified a number of ways in which they needed to be improved.