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. […]

All 14 people executed last year were convicted of drug trafficking, and all but two were foreign nationals. With hundreds of Indonesians on death row in other countries, many have decried the hypocrisy of a government that fights to save their own people while targeting foreigners for execution. […]

The constantly evolving use of social media and dating apps to try and score drugs shows how futile attempts to stop drug use at music festivals are. Is it time to accept it’s always going to happen and get on board with harm minimisation approaches? […]

After seeing too many young people admitted to his ER with overdoses, Dr David Caldicott has become one of Australia’s leading advocates for safer drug use. I called David up after one of his shifts, and thankfully he pulled over his moped to have a chat with me. […]

Russia has become the world’s most aggressive defender of maintaining the war on drugs, outdoing even countries such as Iran. Iran, for instance, supports things such as needle exchanges for heroin users; Russia does not. And Russia’s hard-line stance on the drug war is bad for us. […]

Human rights groups say police data showing that Mr Duterte’s crackdown has claimed the lives of 293 suspected users and pushers in police operations between July 1 and July 24 does not include those slain in extrajudicial killings by vigilantes. […]

“Any executions that are still to take place must be halted immediately. The injustice already done cannot be reversed, but there is still hope that it won’t be compounded,” said Rafendi Djamin, Amnesty International’s director for South East Asia and the Pacific. […]