UNODC. Response to the Opioid Crisis Unted Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2021/22 https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/opioid-crisis/index.html

USA. San Francisco Declares State Of Emergency In Drug-Ridden Tenderloin San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday declared a state of emergency in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood, aiming to combat a rise in crime, drug use and homelessness the…

Malta. Maltas Parlament billigt Cannabis für Eigenbedarf Valletta – Malta hat als erstes EU-Land den Konsum von Cannabis und dessen Anbau für den Eigen­bedarf gebilligt. Das Parlament in Valletta stimmte gestern für ein Gesetz, das Erwachsenen den…

Coordinating cannabis data collection globally: Policy implications.  Weiss, SRB, Volkow, ND.  Addiction. 2021; 1– 2. doi.org/10.1111/add.15751 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.

Effectiveness of Policies for Addressing the US Opioid Epidemic: A Model-Based Analysis from the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis.  Rao IJ, Humphreys K, Brandeau ML.  Lancet Reg Health Am. 2021 Nov;3:100031…

UK.UK Government commits £780 million for drug treatment Yesterday, the Department of Health and Social Care released a '10 year drug strategy' that committed to investing £780 million pounds into drug treatment services - the larges…