Drug PolicyMoving Deckchairs On The Titanic: Drug Policy Reform in the UKAlan Carr.Aug 17, 2021We are first and second authors on a paper titled “Illegal drugs in the UK: Is it time for considered…
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Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyPersonal StoriesTalking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [June 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jul 10, 20211. Russian popular journalist Yuri Dud has been accused of publishing drug propaganda when interviewing rapper Morgenstern and blogger IOneGuy, Meduza…
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Drug PolicyDrug Pragmatics – Who decides: the police or the doctor?Anastasia Bezverkha.Jul 8, 2021In 2014, a trial was completed in Russia against a doctor, Alevtina Khorinyak, who was prosecuted for writing a prescription…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyTreat Illegal Drug Use As Health Issue, Says UK Government Review – Here’s WhyIan Hamilton.Jul 8, 2021The scale of the illicit drug trade in the UK is immense. Last year, the first part of an independent…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyCanada: Decriminalising Drug Use Is A Necessary Step, But It Won’t End The Opioid Overdose CrisisAlissa Greer.Jun 30, 2021Media, policy-makers, advocates and the public claim that decriminalization will make drug use safer and save lives. But can it?…
Drug PolicyDrugs & DevelopmentDrugs & RaceMilitarism, Prohibitionism, Drug War: A Formula for MassacreFelipe Neis Araujo.Jun 28, 2021On the 6th of May, agents of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro entered the community of Jacarezinho to…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyRussia and Belarus officially oppose harm reduction, decriminalisation and human rights – at the UN signed the Political Declaration on HIV-AIDS 2021Anastasia Bezverkha.Jun 14, 2021On 8 June 2021, the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York adopted the 2021 Political Declaration on…
CannabisDrug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyTalking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [May 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jun 9, 20211. Russia: policemen, who were declared guilty of planting drugs to Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, have been sentenced to up…
CannabisDrug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyTalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [May 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jun 9, 2021Police officers who planted drugs on Russian journalist Ivan Golunov have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison,…
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