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International Criminal Court Will Investigate Duterte Over Drug War
The International Criminal Court said on Thursday that it was opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials had committed crimes against humanity in the course of the government’s deadly crackdown on drugs. […]
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Women Are Leading the Fight Against the War on Drugs
A new, women-led movement to stop prohibition that is harming families—across the board, but especially among minorities and poor people—may be exactly what’s needed to finally end the country’s 100-year drug war. Of course, solid arguments for harm reduction and decriminalization can be made by people across the gender spectrum.…
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Application flagged for legal pill-testing at Groovin the Moo
The consortium behind an aborted pill-testing trial at last year’s Spilt Milk music festival has given formal notification to the ACT government of a new trial planned for Groovin the Moo. A spokesman for Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris confirmed the wheels were in motion for a second attempt to legally…
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Application flagged for legal pill-testing at Groovin the Moo
The consortium behind an aborted pill-testing trial at last year’s Spilt Milk music festival has given formal notification to the ACT government of a new trial planned for Groovin the Moo. A spokesman for Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris confirmed the wheels were in motion for a second attempt to legally pill-test in the…
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Heroin-Assisted Treatment to be provided in Glasgow
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is pressing ahead with plans to deliver a Heroin Assisted Treatment facility in the city centre. This work continues while the HSCP maintains a dialogue with the Scottish Government on how best to progress a Safer Drug Consumption Facility in the city in…
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Tough Love Can Be Deadly
Researchers have repeatedly shown the efficacy of harm-reduction approaches, like SIFs, to addiction. As Dr. Thomas Kerr, Associate Director of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Abuse argues, the scientific evidence surrounding safe injections sites is clear: “There’s no real serious academic debate.” So why isn’t the United States, currently facing…
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Injection Sites Provide Safe Spots To Shoot Up
In about one hundred locations across Canada, Europe and Australia, supervised drug injection facilities allow visitors to inject heroin and other drugs in a clean, well-lighted space under the watchful eye of trained personnel who can rescue them if they overdose. […]
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IRELAND: Legislation to decriminalise drugs could come in ‘early 2019’
Legislation to decriminalise drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use could be enacted in early 2019, Minister of State for the National Drugs Strategy Catherine Byrne has indicated. On Thursday, she appointed a working group to look at “alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use”. It will…
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Philippines: Reinstating police to anti-drug operations risks ‘catastrophic wave of violence’
Responding to news that Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police to resume their role in supporting his administration’s controversial ‘war on drugs’, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Southeast Asia and the Pacific Director, said: “In returning police to his anti-drug operations yet again, President Duterte has consigned the poorest…
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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their…
