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"Drugs - Facing Facts. The report of the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy" - Executive Summary (U.K.)

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The RSA report on the impact of current drug policy in the U.K. First published March 2007. This is the Executive Summary. For the full report see Turkeyphants upload below.

Submitted by Micklemouse

10-03-2007
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"Drugs - Facing Facts. The report of the RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy" (U.K.)

The RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs, Communities and Public Policy was set up to take a fresh look at these questions and to try to untangle the complex knot of issues commonly referred to as 'the drugs problem.'

Submitted by turkeyphant

10-03-2007
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10 Years: TNI Drugs & Democracy Programme 1998-2008

10 Years: TNI Drugs & Democracy Programme 1998-2008

TNI has been involved in international drugs policy work since the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS). This new report summarises the lessons of 10 years of work in this field, emphasising drug controls that respect...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

22-07-2008
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12 Dimensions of a maneagable problem: A collection of expert views

Companion document to Scottish parlament think-tank report, Approaches to drugs and alcohol in Scotland, which can be found below.

Submitted by Heretic.Ape.

15-06-2008
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A 25 Year Quagmire: The War on Drugs and Its Impact on American Society

Does exactly what it says on the tin. This report was produced by The Sentencing Project (USA), a national non-profit organization engaged in research and advocacy on criminal justice policy issues.

It looks at how the war on drugs has been a primaryncontributor to the enormous growth of the...

Submitted by Lunar Loops

28-09-2007
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Keywords: drugs us war

A analysis of UK drug policy (2007)

A monograph prepared for the UK Drug Policy Commission

Peter Reuter, Alex Stevens

Submitted by Jatelka

05-07-2009
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A clash of policy approaches: The rise (and fall?) of Dutch harm reduction policies towards ecstasy consumption (2005)

International Journal of Drug Policy 16 (2005) 65-72

Uitermark and Cohen

This paper describes the origins and evolution of Dutch harm reduction policies towards ecstasy. It is argued that the national government has allowed and supported local stakeholders to experiment with harm reduction...

See also Ecstasy (MDMA, MDEA, MDA) Documents

Submitted by Bajeda

10-04-2007
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Keywords: mdma policy ecstasy harm-reduction

A FRESH APPROACH TO DRUGS

This is a 23 page policy brief document from The Bow Group (UK). It makes grim reading if the UK is to have a change of government as this represents a good cross-section of conservative thinking.

Submitted by Lunar Loops

22-01-2007
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Access, adherence, quality and impact of ARV provision to current and ex-injecting drug users in Manipur (India): An initial assessment (M Sharma et al 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 319–325

Mukta Sharma, Rajkumar Raju Singh, Phillip Laishram, Basanta Kumarb, Haobam Nanaoc, Charan Sharma, Tanvir Ahmede

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Adherence to HIV treatment among IDUs and the role of opioid substitution treatment (OST) (B Spire et al 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 262–270

Bruno Spire a, Gregory M. Lucas b, M. Patrizia Carrieri

See also Injection Drug Use Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Keywords: hiv

After the War on Drugs - Options for Control

'After the War on Drugs - Options for Control' is a major new report examining the key themes in the drug policy reform debate, detailing how legal regulation of drug markets will operate, and providing a roadmap and time line for reform.

Submitted by matti_2003

30-06-2006
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Against the Legalization of Heroin

De Marneffe, Peter. (2003). Against the legalization of heroin. Criminal Justice Ethics, 22: 34-40.

Background: On December 29, 2002, the American Philosophical Assocation's Committee on the Philosophy of Law sponsored a symposium on the [sic] drug legalization at the Annual Meeting of APA's...

Submitted by Bajeda

30-06-2009
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Keywords: decriminalization drug-policy legalization prohibition

An alternative to contemporary forms of drugs control

This article analyzes the main concepts utilized in non-repressive drug control models. After discussing three models of cannabis control used in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, the authors present an alternative model that is based on the German...

Submitted by Bajeda

26-03-2007
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An exploration of the potential impact of the designated driver campaign on bartenders’ willingness to over-serve (2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 458–463

Denise M. Reiling, Michael R. Nusbaumer

Much has been written about the impact of the presence of a designated driver on patrons' consumption, but heretofore, its impact on the behaviour of the server has been virtually ignored. The...

See also Alcohol Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

28-01-2008
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Antiretroviral HIV treatment and care for injecting drug users: An evidence-based overview (F Lert & MD Kazatchkine 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 255–261

France Lert, Michel D. Kazatchkine

See also Injection Drug Use Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Keywords: hiv

Approaches to Drugs and Alcohol in Scotland: A Question of Architecture

Report by Scottish parliament think-tank: A systems mapping approach to how Scotland can reduce the harm to it's population from alcohol and drugs by 25% by 2025.

Companion document, 12 Dimensions of Manageable Problem: A collection of expert views, may be found above.

Submitted by Heretic.Ape.

15-06-2008
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Keywords: scotland think-tank report

Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review (2007)

Harm Reduction Journal 2007 Oct 24;4:14

Islam MM, Conigrave KM.

ABSTRACT: Reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk injecting drug users (IDUs) is one of the most important challenges for contemporary needle syringe programs (NSPs). The aim of this review is to examine, based upon the available...

Submitted by Jatelka

13-03-2008
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Keywords: drug-use harm-reduction intravenous syringe

Attitudes to Drug Policy and Drug Laws: A Review of the International Evidence

This paper reviews the available evidence about people’s attitudes and views toward national and international drug policy. The first section assesses the main conceptual and methodological problems exhibited by surveys and studies in this domain, including definitions and terminology, sampling...

Submitted by Bajeda

26-03-2007
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Keywords: drug

Australian Drug Policy: The War on Drugs is Winnable

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30 mins
13 Sept 2007
Reported by Hack Team

THE WAR ON DRUGS IS WINNABLE. That's the message from a government report released today. It's arguing for a turnaround in Australia's drug policy to drop harm minimsation and that people who argue for harm minimisation are effectively pro-drugs. It...

See also Lectures, Interviews & Podcasts About Drugs

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

26-09-2007
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Keywords: government harm-reduction policy war

Bath Chronicle article about Nice People Take Drugs in the West of England

Article from Bath Chronicle, Bath local newspaper, about Respect West Country's photo opportunity in support of Release's Nice People Take Drugs Campaign

Submitted by MatRespect

28-09-2009
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Beyond ‘peer pressure’: Rethinking drug use and ‘youth culture’ (2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 213–224

Hilary Pilkington

The study of drug use by young people in the West has been transformed over the last decade by the development of sociological approaches to drug use which take serious account of the cultural context in which young...

See also Drug Use Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Book review: Pusher Myths: Re-situating the Drug Dealer R. Coomber (Ed.). Free Association Books, London (2006). 207 pp. (A Fletcher 2006)

International Journal of Drug Policy Volume 18 (2007): 239

Adam Fletcher

See also Drug Use Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Burden of Disease and Injury in Australia

Stephen Begg, Theo Vos, Bridget Barker,
Chris Stevenson, Lucy Stanley and
Alan D Lopez

May 2007

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Submitted by corvardus

30-09-2009
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Keywords: australia disease injury burden

BZP debate back in parliament today (NZ)

2 mins
24 Oct 2007
TV3 NZ

Two voices from opposite sides of the party pill debate are set to tell a Parliamentary select committee today why they should - and should not - be banned.

Discussion Thread

See also News Coverage Videos About Drugs

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

24-10-2007
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Keywords: bzp law partypills piperazines policy

Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate (2008)

The Beckley Foundation Global Cannabis Commission Report

Robin Room, Benedikt Fischer, Wayne Hall, Simon Lenton, Peter Reuter

Another fascinating and insightful publication. Well worth reading

Submitted by Jatelka

12-11-2008
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Cannabis survey causes controversy (NZ)

2 mins
2 Nov 2007
TV3 NZ

A row is developing over the reliability of a new survey on relaxing the cannabis laws. The Drug Foundation, which commissioned the survey, says the figures show there is less support for relaxing the cannabis laws. But National Organisation for the Reform of...

See also News Coverage Videos About Drugs

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

02-11-2007
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Keywords: marijuana policy reform cannabis

Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire

This is a transcript of a lecture given at the University of California at Berkeley by Michael Pollan, the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, among other books.

The lecture covers a wide area of ground, touching on topics such as the co-evolutionary relationship...

See also Cannabis Documents Drug History Documents

Submitted by Expat98

06-05-2008
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Keywords: evolution marijuana forgetting cannabis

Case study: Accessible primary health care—A foundation to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs (I van Beek 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 329–332

Ingrid van Beek

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Challenging Mr. Costa's opening remarks - CND Video 2

6 mins
21 March 2008

Discussion Thread

See also Drug Policy Reform & Narco Politics videos

Submitted by ~lostgurl~

24-03-2008
Hits 174
Keywords: war reform politics policy

Characteristics of injection drug users who participate in drug dealing: implications for drug policy

Kerr T, Small W, Johnston C, Li K, Montaner JS, & Wood E. (2008). Characteristics of injection drug users who participate in drug dealing: implications for drug policy. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 40(2):147-52.

Abstract: So-called "balanced" drug policy couples enforcement initiatives...

See also Injection Drug Use Documents

Submitted by Bajeda

30-06-2009
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Keywords: drug-policy vancouver

Coca or Death? Cocalero Movements in Bolivia and Peru (2004)

Transnational Institute on coca leaf and coca policies

Discussion Thread

See also Coca Documents

Submitted by Alfa

11-04-2008
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Content Analysis of Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs in Popular Music

Primack, B.A., Dalton, M.A., Carroll, M.V., Agarwal, A.A., & Fine, M.J. (2008). Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 162(2), 169-175.

Analyzes the 279 most popular songs of 2005 (according to Billboard Magazine) for portrayals of drug use.

Submitted by Bajeda

12-04-2008
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Keywords: music

Controlling illegal stimulants: a regulated market model (2007)

Harm Reduct J. 2008 Jan 23;5:1.

Haden M.

ABSTRACT: Prohibition of illegal drugs is a failed social policy and new models of regulation of these substances are needed. This paper explores a proposal for a post-prohibition, public health based model for the regulation of the most problematic...

See also Stimulants in general Documents

Submitted by Jatelka

01-03-2008
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Keywords: drug-policy psychostimulants stimulants

Coverage of HIV prevention programmes for injection drug users: Confusions, aspirations, definitions and ways forward (M Sharma et al 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 92–98

Mukta Sharma, Dave Burrows, Ricky Bluthenthal

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Creating the cannabis user - A post-structuralist analysis of the re-classification of cannabis in the United Kingdom (2004–2005) (B Acevedo 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 177–186

Beatriz Acevedo

See also Cannabis Documents

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Critiques of harm reduction, morality and the promise of human rights

This commentary critically reviews recent criticisms of harm reduction which argue that ideological limitations and a reluctance to express moral commitments are major factors preventing it from developing its full potential. It argues that, rather than a paradigm which is failing to live up to...

Submitted by Bajeda

26-03-2007
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Keywords: reduction drug

Directly observed therapy programmes for anti-retroviral treatment amongst injection drug users in Vancouver: Access, adherence and outcomes (MW Tyndall et al 2007)

International Journal of Drug Policy 18 (2007) 281–287

Mark W. Tyndall, Maggi McNally, Calvin Lai, Ruth Zhang,
Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr, Julio G. Montaner

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

27-01-2008
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Distorted? A Quantitative Exploration of Drug Fatality Reports

It has long been accepted that newspaper reporting of drug issues may be prone to amplification. However, to date there has been little empirical confirmation of this view. This paper aims to examine the representativeness of newspaper reports of deaths attributed to illegal drug use.

It is...

Submitted by Bajeda

26-03-2007
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Keywords: ecstasy drug

Drug Consumption Rooms: An Overdue Extension to Harm Reduction Policy in the UK (lloyd and Hunt, 2006)

Originally published in the International Journal of Drug Policy

Submitted by Jatelka

29-07-2007
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Keywords: injecting harm-reduction

Drug decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for creating fair and succesfull drug policies (2009)

Glenn Greenwald

Executive Summary
On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were "decriminalized," not "legalized." Thus, drug possession for personal use and drug usage itself...

Submitted by ThirdEyeFloond

04-04-2009
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