Police wrap their lifeless heads in tape and cardboard scrawled with the tag ‘pusher ako’. It’s a sign to the community that this person who lays dead on a street was a drug dealer. You should not remember their face. You should not see them as human. You should not cry. […]

“A redirection of focus and funds away from repressive policies should happen with evidence-based approaches such as harm reduction and community-based drug dependence treatment as the priority, rather than coercive or non-evidence based models,” said Rick Lines of Harm Reduction International. […]

Civil society groups from across the globe, including prominent human rights NGOs, have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines. Since 10th May 2016, more than 700 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines for being suspected of using or dealing…

People in the slums of Manila are living in fear after new Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called on police and vigilantes to kill drug suspects. […]

For emergency doctors with an interest in illicit toxicology, the arrival of the summer months in Australia signals, like some sort of grotesque seasonal cuckoo, the beginning of the music festival season. With it, the entirely predictable and unnecessary deaths of young Australians from illicit substance ingestion. […]

More completely and more quickly than any of the “classic” drugs, the creation and existence of NPS has forced two of the thorniest issues in drug policy to the fore: whether altered states are even allowable, and whether it should possible for anyone to profit off of them. Answering these two questions will force an end, one way or another,…

Some 316 suspected drug dealers were killed from July 1-27, 195 of which were vigilante killings, according to police. Human rights groups estimate the body count to be at least double the official number. […]

A long-anticipated loosening of the availability of medicinal cannabis is expected to offer new treatments and choice for a range of patients. […]

President Joko Widodo has permitted these executions, each convicted of drug offences, claiming it will send a message of deterrence. The only message is regrettably of Indonesia’s inhumanity. […]

An Australian drug rehabilitation advocate is calling for for Australian and New Zealand governments to adopt a northern European approach to methamphetamine that uses legal consumption rooms. […]