USA. Purdue Pharma Offers Plan to End Sackler Control and Mounting Lawsuits The OxyContin maker filed its long-awaited restructuring plan in bankruptcy court. Revenue from the new company would go exclusively to abating the opioid crisis. (New…

USA. AAAP Coalition fully support President Biden’s goal to increase access to science-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. AAAP - American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, USA, 18.02.2021 https://www.aaap.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AAAP…

Drug control policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia The economic, health and social impact (PDF)  This Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report aims to capture the attention of policy-makers in four study countries in the EECA region; Bel…

USA. Nora’s Blog: NIH and NIDA Work to End Structural Racism in Biomedical Science (…) Today, NIH Director Francis Collins announced UNITE, an NIH-wide initiative already underway to end structural racism in biomedical science. (NIH-NIDA, USA, 01.0…

Kanada. Doctors Call For Safer Cocaine Supply While a Canadian province mulls adding the drug to its safe supply, experts say full legalization is a better approach. (Vice, 03.03.2021) https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgy8/doctors-call-for-safer-…

New synthetic drugs require new policies.  Pardo, B., Taylor, J., Caulkins, J., Reuter, P., and Kilmer, B. (2021)  Addiction, doi.org/10.1111/add.15442.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.15442