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In resolution WHA61.4 (Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol) the Health Assembly requested the Director-General to submit to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, through theExecutive Board, a draft global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol [World Health Organisation]
This report published by the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme in partnership with the International Centre for Prison Studies at Kings College London, revisits the topic of the incarceration of drug offenders [IDPC, UK]
In what is being reported as an unprecedented decision, the High Court of Singapore has granted a stay of execution to a convicted drug trafficker who was scheduled to be hanged on Friday [IHRA]
This compilation of essays presents an opportunity to bring these many issues together. It is intended as a discussion piece to highlight the impacts of the war on drugs from the perspectives of children and young people and to promote a greater focus on children and young people in drug policies, nationally and internationally [International Drug Policy Consortium]
This submission describes several key human rights priorities and provides recommendations forthe Kyrgyz Republic to better respect, protect and fulfill human rights, consistent with its international legal obligations, in areas of particular relevance to effective response to HIV [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The following article appeared recently in the New York times Magazine and is well worth a read and forwarding to anyone new to HIV prevention among people who inject drugs [International Harm Reduction Association]
This report presents the most current patterns and trends of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) and other drugs of use in East and South-East Asia and provides overviews for neighbouring South Asia and the Pacific Island states [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UK]
This study aims to review the economic impact of alcohol worldwide, summarizing the state of knowledge with regard to two elements: (1) cost components included in the estimation; (2) the methodologies employed in works conducted to date [Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy]
The Indonesia UNGASS Forum has translated the new narcotics law that was adopted by the Parliament in Jakarta in September 2009. Advocates have highlighted that the new law violates basic human rights and constrains harm reduction efforts in the region [International Drug Policy Consortium]
This report presents the findings of three groundbreaking studies conducted in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine that investigate the impact that drug user registration laws have on the lives of drug users and the quality of public health policy [Open Society Institute]
Efforts to scale up access to HIV testing and counselling in prisons should not be undertaken in isolation, but as part of a comprehensive HIV programme aimed at improving health care.. [UNODC and WHO]
Focuses on developments in the fast changing synthetic drug market and provides global coverage of key issues related to traditional and emerging precursor chemicals, manufacture locations and methods, new drugs and forms, new and revised legislation, changing use patterns and groups, and market value [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
The WHO Secretariat held a web-based public hearing to provide an opportunity to everyone to give their views on the best ways to reduce harmful use of alcohol [World Health Organisation]
Three groundbreaking studies conducted in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine investigate the impact that drug user registration laws have on the lives of drug users and the quality of public health policy [Open Society Institute]
Senior officials from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan met in Vienna on 27 October 2009 for a ministerial meeting of the UNODC-brokered Triangular Initiative [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]
The call has been timed to coincide with the opening of the ‘3rd Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference’ in Moscow, and comes amid deep concerns and broken promises regarding the funding of harm reduction programmes in the country – which has an estimated 1.85 million injecting drug users [International Harm Reduction Association]
At a conference on international human rights in Hanoi, Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, called for the decriminalisation of drug use and an end to compulsory drug rehabilitation camps in Asia [International Drug Policy Consortium]
The Committee was urged to support the recommendation of the Special Rapporteur that ‘targets must be set to ensure that those who are in need of methadone get it as soon as possible’ [IDPC, UK]
Although a careful textual analysis of the legislation is still needed, it is clear that the political considerations far outweighed sensible drug policy arguments in the adoption process, which is reflected in the texts [International Drug Policy Commission]
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The transnational threat of Afghan opium [UNODC]
