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Kenya: drug users need doctors not policemen
The recent increase in drug use in Kenya, coupled with the rising HIV epidemic among key populations, calls for a critical review of how drug using populations are managed. […]
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Australia’s former top cop Mick Palmer says drug policy is failing, new approach needed
The former head of the AFP, Mick Palmer, and the former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdrey, have both told Four Corners current drug policy isn’t working and a new approach is needed. […]
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Dying to dance
“If the Government thinks that people are going to stop taking drugs, they’re kidding themselves.” […]
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Una Mullally: It’s ludicrous to hand over drug quality control to criminal gangs
The highest level in Europe of so-called ‘legal high’ drug use was found among young Irish people […]
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AIDS Moncton gives out crack pipes to area drug users
AIDS Moncton has quietly been supplying drug users in southeastern New Brunswick with reusable crack pipes for more than three years. […]
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The new war on drugs: harm reduction, needle exchange used more in fight against heroin
When the War On Drugs proved unsuccessful, researchers, clinicians, and lawmakers were forced to go back to the drawing board. […]
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Synthetic drugs are killing our kids, so let’s take control
Prohibiting recreational drugs hasn’t worked, so it’s time to try regulating them. […]
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Australia’s drug driving laws are grossly unfair
Australia’s drug driving laws criminalise individuals who represent no risk to other drivers, writes Greg Barns. […]
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Why one ex-Chicago prosecutor changed her thinking on the drug war
“Part of what bothers me the most about whole the war on drugs is the sheer intellectual dishonesty of it,” Inge Fryklund says as she rattles off a brief history of prohibition. […]
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Getting tough on crime needs a softer approach
There is a saying in the prison building industry that goes along the lines of: ‘If you build them, they will fill them’. […]
