VANCOUVER — Watching an addict fill a syringe with puddle water, former senior RCMP officer Raf Souccar imagined a radical shift in how Canada could deal with people in the grip of drug addition — by providing them with medical-grade her…

The Drug Policy Alliance, the nation's leading proponent of drug policy reform, is releasing a plan to address increasing rates of opioid use and overdose (now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States). The plan marks a radical dep…

Experts and ministers on drugs from the 15 ECOWAS countries met in Abuja, Nigeria on 5th September as part of an on-going effort to address the drug problem and organised crime within the region. The meeting sought to appraise and rev…

In an “exit interview” with Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama said that marijuana use should be treated as a public-health issue similar to tobacco or alcohol... (Washington Post, 30.11.2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wo…

Euthanasia for people in 'unbearable suffering' and no prospect of improvement is legal in the country A man in the Netherlands has been allowed to die because he could no longer carry on living as an alcoholic. (The Independent, UK, 01.12.2016) h…

A Prescription for Action - Local Leadership in Ending the Opioid Crisis. (opioidaction.org, November 2016) http://opioidaction.org