USA. Opioid Crisis: Filmmaker Details The Medical System's 'Crime Of The Century' The opioid crisis in the U.S. has never gone away. Almost every year, more people die of opioid overdoses than in the year before. More than a half-million people ha…

Kanada. Decriminalization Done Right: A Human Rights and Public Health Vision for Drug Policy Reform As organizations and individuals committed to the liberation of people who use drugs, and progressive, rights-based drug policy reforms including d…

USA. 24 States Mount Legal Fight To Block Sackler Bid For Opioid Immunity (…) A negotiated settlement could preempt years of costly litigation — the Sacklers deny any wrongdoing — and might accelerate financial aid to communities struggling to reco…

2021 Global Day of Action: Undoing the ‘war’, building the future that our communities have always deserved 50 years ago, the government of the United States launched a ‘war on drugs’ that would tragically define the decades to come. The idea that…

Drug control policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - The economic, health and social impact The Economist Intelligence Unit, UK, März 2021 http://fileserver.idpc.net/library/aph_report_launch_version_01mar2021.pdf

USA. Bringing Harm Reduction into Health Policy — Combating the Overdose Crisis In the face of increasing drug-related morbidity and mortality, the Biden administration could signal a change in federal strategy by fully endorsing harm reduction as…