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.
UNAIDS provides an overview of the progress and remaining challenges in tackling the HIV epidemic around the world, highlighting the importance of community-led and community-engaged programmes.
The EMCDDA shows the encouraging progress that has been made to reduce the prevalence of infectious diseases amongst people who inject drugs, while also highlighting the need to extend the existing programs and services.
Correlation shares good practice examples in the field of HCV awareness, testing, access to treatment and care for people who use drugs in harm reduction and community settings in Europe.
Moving forward, major challenges include ensuring that new infections are prevented from occurring and that people who are living with HCV are tested, linked to care, treated, receive appropriate follow-up, and have equitable access to care.
This paper shows how the decrease in income and increase in incarcerations have been directly linked to the rise in drug-related deaths over time in the USA.
