Canada: Decriminalising Drug Use Is A Necessary Step, But It Won’t End The Opioid Overdose Crisis
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Media, policy-makers, advocates and the public claim that decriminalization will make drug use safer and save lives. But can it?…
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Militarism, Prohibitionism, Drug War: A Formula for Massacre
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On the 6th of May, agents of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro entered the community of Jacarezinho to…
Russia and Belarus officially oppose harm reduction, decriminalisation and human rights – at the UN signed the Political Declaration on HIV-AIDS 2021
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On 8 June 2021, the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York adopted the 2021 Political Declaration on…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [May 2021]
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1. Russia: policemen, who were declared guilty of planting drugs to Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, have been sentenced to up…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [May 2021]
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Police officers who planted drugs on Russian journalist Ivan Golunov have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison,…
Трилемма наркополитики: как эффективно бороться с наркотиками, обеспечив также мир и развитие?
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Смерть 25 человек в результате полицейского рейда в Рио де Жанейро в мае 2021 года вновь актуализировала фокус “войны с наркотиками”…
The Jacarezinho Massacre and Lethal Drug Policy Enforcement in Brazil
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It’s a Rio de Janeiro classic. Officers of the civil, military or army police make an incursion into a favela. They…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [April 2021]
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Ukraine: Instead of drug policy reform, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree on the circulation of some cannabis-based medicines…
Cruel Cages: How the Most Overcrowded Prison in the World Ignored a Pandemic
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Philippine jails are known for two things – the dancing inmates of Cebu who to the tune of Michael Jackson’s…
Kasia Malinowska: The Foundation Of The U.S. War on Drugs Is Racism
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It has been 50 years since Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs. It is well known today that one…
Drug Decriminalisation in Oregon: How’s It Going So Far?
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Tanesia DeMacon is no stranger to jail. She estimates she was arrested no fewer than 15 times, starting at the…
New psychoactive substances in Estonia: fentanyl, alpha-PVP and harm reduction
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Estonia has historically had an extremely high number of drug-related deaths per capita. However, over the past 3 years, according…