Crew provides an overview of drug trends in Scotland, emphasising the worrisome rising number of drug-related deaths, mostly due to very limited harm reduction provision.
This paper suggests Brazilian courts prioritise incarceration despite available legal alternatives, disproportionately affecting people in situations of vulnerability.
This research shows that differences in public and institutional responses as well as the limited local power in the UK condition divergent approaches to DCRs.
This paper shows that arrests for drug use and drug possession for personal consumption actually amount to a very small margin of drug seizures although they represent more than one-third of recorded arrests.
The Mental Health Commission of Canada urges to close gaps in the existing research on cannabis and mental health, leveraging the country's legal regulation system.
This report reviewed approaches taken in Ireland and nine other jurisdictions to simple possession drug offences to identify alternative options and analyse their advantages and disadvantages.
RAND analyses and makes recommendations on data collection, the expansion of evidence-based treatment and alternatives to repressive responses to drug use.
