Police Minister Rene Hidding did himself and the Tasmanian community no good at all last week with his arrogant, dangerous dismissal of a sensible idea by the Greens for pill testing to be available at music festivals. […]

Let’s take ethical responsibility for our guilty pleasures by committing to harm reducing political advocacy at the local, national, regional, and global levels inter alia! […]

“We can’t arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it’s really inhumane, but it’s ineffective and it costs us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.” […]

Duterte has been suspected of playing a role in many killings of suspected criminals by motorcycle-riding assassins dubbed the “Davao death squads”. Human rights watchdogs say he has not been criminally charged because nobody has dared to testify against him in court. […]

The evidence is “overwhelming,” said James A. Goldston, the executive director of the New York-based Justice Initiative, which will release the report on Tuesday. “In case after case, army actors and federal police have been implicated.” […]

Approaches such as needle and syringe programs are based on human rights principles. They are inexpensive, easy to implement and have a positive impact on individual and community health. […]

When I asked the developer, Chris Oelerich, if he thought about the counter-arguments against harm-reduction, that it “enables” drug use, he said, “If people are going to keep using heroin, then making it harder isn’t a great strategy.” […]

What these outlets can’t grasp is the stupidity of aiming at a succession of particular drugs, as opposed to far more dangerous mixtures of these drugs and—above all—the economic, social and psychological circumstances in which people use drugs. […]

If the UN were really serious about bringing drug lords to justice and hitting them where it hurt, it could simply have resolved to end the financial secrecy that criminals use to cover their tracks and hide their money. […]

Deputy Director Tatyana Guzenkova stated that the HIV crisis in Russia is not an actual epidemic, but rather part of an “information war” against Russia. Her coworker, Igor Beloborodov, blamed condom manufacturers. […]