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An overview of the general work plan for IDPC for 2009/2010 and confirmation of the membership of six new partner members and six new network members [International Drug Policy Consortium]
It’s Mat and Erin here, and we are just back from our first meeting linked to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) [The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)]
Through improved forensic capacities and facilities, the laboratory of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) was able to identify several pharmacological substances that are typically used for mixing with heroin in 2008 [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
It is important for Governments and the international community to know where opium poppy is cultivated and how much opium and heroin can be produced in order to understand and tackle the issue [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
Convened by former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, César Gaviria of Colombia and Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and composed of 17 independent personalities, the Commission evaluated the impact of the “war on drugs” and presented recommendations for safer, more efficient and humane policies [International Drug Policy Consortium]
On 28th May 2009, Chatham House hosted the UK launch of Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift – the report of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy [International Drug Policy Consortium]
This report prepared by the Western Pacific Regional Office of the WHO describes the “compulsory treatment centres” in Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Viet Nam, and assesses the treatment they provide [International Drug Policy Consortium]
In this response to the Annual Report attention is given to the INCB’s analysis of a number of inter-connected issues, including the history of the drug control system and on its positions on three contemporary debates – harm reduction, the search for effective cannabis control, and the Bolivian request for reconsideration of the status of the coca leaf [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The true goal behind these Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns is to improve the image of the company. We have seen this earlier with CSR campaigns by the tobacco industry {long download} [European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing]
A cross border initiative to ban alcohol advertising that appeals to children and adolescents is needed to protect young people from the harmful effects of alcohol, according to leading public health doctor, Peter Anderson, writing in this month’s Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians [European Centre for Monitoring Alcohol Marketing]
Alcohol marketing increases the likelihood that adolescents will start to use alcohol and increases the amount used by established drinkers. This is the conclusion of a European science group in a report presented to the EU [Alcohol, Drugs and Development]
The WHO member states keeps the Social Determinants of Health process on track by passing a resolution based on the commission report at the World Health Assembly last month. The Health Assembly next year will discuss a proposed global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol [Alcohol, Drugs and Development]
Even its very name has been appropriated by a soft drinks producer, which still has difficulties in admitting that the plant is used to produce its “black gold” [UNGASS, Transnational Institute]
The UN’s body of experts established to monitor the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has raised a number of concerns about Sweden’s drug policies and has recommended that the State “Ensure the provision of necessary evidence-based support, recovery and reintegration services to all children affected by substance abuse… [International Harm Reduction Association]
An online resource containing up-to-date information on harm reduction policy and programming around the world. The web pages draw on the latest research in this area to present an at-a-glance guide to the current state of harm reduction worldwide [International Harm Reduction Association]
Pean spent her childhood in the midst of Vietnam’s war, and her adolescence as a witness to its aftermath [Talking Drugs]
n April 2009, the annual IHRA Awards were presented during Harm Reduction 2009: IHRA’s 20th International Conference [International Harm Reduction Association]
May was born in Vinh Ko Province in Vietnam. She left home at the age of 14 to find work and help her parents support their family [Talking Drugs]
In 2004, the Beckley Foundation reported on the legal changes that took place in Portugal in 2001. This 2007 report aims to provide an updated overview of the effects of these changes, using data from the evaluations that have been carried out and from new interviews with key stakeholders in Portugal [International Drug Policy Commission]
In 2001 Portugal became the only European country to decriminalise all drugs from cannabis to heroin. Eight years later Claudia Hammond reports from Lisbon to find out how the policy has affected drug use [BBC World Service]
