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The first Beckley report, "Towards a review of global policies on controlled drugs", put forward the case for an objective and independent review of existing global frameworks for the control of illicit drugs. The overarching objective of curren[...]
In July 2001, Portugals government implemented a notable change in drug policy. From that date, users of any illegal drug apprehended by police were brought not before the courts, but before special commissions composed of health, legal, and soc[...]
The defining characteristic of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) is that they are legally sanctioned environments where people can take illegal drugs. Their purpose is to reduce drug-related harms. The underlying assumption is that if problem drug u[...]
Over the past three years Russia and Ukraine have experienced one of the fastest growing HIV pandemics in Europe. In contrast to other parts of the world, the main driver behind the rate of infection is injecting drug use. Recent government poli[...]
After almost 100 years of international drug control agreements, that have pursued prohibitions on the production, distribution and use of some psychoactive substances, questions about the efficacy, and even the validity, of these strategies are[...]
This report draws together the findings from the series of reports and briefing papers produced under the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme in the last 18 months. It concludes that there are significant limitations in the achievements and[...]
This paper looks at the pros and cons of pursuing a policy of large-scale arrest and incarceration of drug users. Taking the USA as the main example of this approach, the authors examine the costs of incarceration in terms of public expenditure,[...]
The first two reports for the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP) have raised questions about the effectiveness of current policies for the control of illegal drugs, both national and international. We now move on to examine the rea[...]
The Report explores the methodologies to measure drug-related harm developing since the early 1990s and the shift from evaluation focused on prevalence to a more sophisticated approach aimed at harm minimisation. The report highlighted methodolo[...]
FRANÇAIS : Un nombre significatif de prisonniers ont eu des problèmes de drogue et peuvent continuer l'usage de drogue en prison. Ceci peut constituer un facteur de risque pour la transmission du VIH. Récemment des documents officiels en matièr[...]
On 29 January 2004, an amendment to the drug laws came into effect in the UK that moved cannabis and its derivatives from Class B to Class C under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the primary drug control legislation in the UK. This is likely to re[...]
This Beckley Briefing Paper is concerned with the Thai war on drugs, which commenced in February 2003 in response to an explosion in methamphetamine use in this region of East Asia, and which has resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thous[...]
ENGLISH : The International Narcotics Control Board is charged with monitoring the implementation of the three United Nations Conventions and of alerting member states and the international community to weaknesses in the system. There is growi[...]
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