Showing 199 news articles about Drug policy & policing

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News and information about policies on psychoactive drug use, including education, support for people with drug dependence disorders, the criminalisation of drug use, law enforcement, decriminalisation and legalisation.

Harm reduction

Healing Austin, Indiana: How town raced to stop America's worst rural HIV plague (three-part series)

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Kentucky Courier-Journal
24 April 2017
Activism & civil society

TAG Statement in Opposition to the Nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary

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Treatment Action Group
24 January 2017
Drug policy & policing

The Philippines: No country for poor men

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BBC
5 December 2016
Drug policy & policing

NICE one? Is NHS guidance on substance misuse fit for purpose?

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The Mental Elf
28 November 2016
Drug policy & policing

How Much of a Disaster Will Trump's Drug Policies Be?

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Vice
24 November 2016
Drug policy & policing

It's time to decriminalize drugs, commission report says

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The Guardian
22 November 2016
Drug policy & policing

Decriminalization is a public health strategy

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Treatment Action Group
18 October 2016
People who inject drugs

Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings

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The Guardian
4 October 2016
Drug policy & policing

Philippines' war on drugs affecting fight against HIV

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Deutsche Welle
20 September 2016
HIV & criminal law

South Africa: Two Women Charged With Stealing ARVs From Mpumalanga Clinic

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AllAfrica
12 September 2016
HIV prevention policy

Russia faces HIV epidemic with 1 million positive cases; Kremlin blames moral lapses

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ABC Online
7 September 2016
Drug policy & policing

The Injustice Of Lifetime Food Stamp Bans

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Huffington Post
30 August 2016
Prisoners

Mass incarceration of drug users in South Africa 'driving global epidemics'

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Daily Mail
15 July 2016
Harm reduction

The safe room

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Sydney Morning Herald
4 July 2016
Drug policy & policing

Leading public health bodies call for decriminalisation of drugs

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The Guardian
16 June 2016
Drug policy & policing

A broad consensus on drug policy? It's time for change

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Support Don't Punish (video)
8 June 2016
Harm reduction

European Drug Report 2016

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ECMDDA
6 June 2016
Human rights

If we want to end HIV, TB, and malaria, we need to do more to reduce human rights barriers

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Global Fund Observer
11 May 2016
Drug policy & policing

The Drugs Consensus Is Not Pretty - It's Been Ripped Apart at the Seams

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International Drug Policy Consortium
4 May 2016
Drug policy & policing

UNAIDS urges countries to adopt a people-, rights- and health-centred approach to reverse the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs

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UNAIDS
18 April 2016
Drug policy & policing

Latin America 'Addicted to punishment’

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IRIN
15 April 2016
Drug policy & policing

Barack Obama: 'drug addiction is a health problem, not a criminal problem'

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The Guardian
30 March 2016
Harm reduction

To end HIV in drug users, stop chasing the dream of a drug-free world

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The Guardian
22 March 2016
Harm reduction

Vancouver’s injection sites a potential model for other cities: advocates

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Globe & Mail
17 March 2016