Suspicious ‘baseball bat’ found by monitors in Russian prison hospital.
Baseball is not a popular sport in Russia. When officials from the Public Monitoring Board discovered this bat during a routine inspection, they immediately suspected that it had been used to torture detainees.
Harm reduction is a range of evidence-based approaches that recognize that people unable or unwilling to abstain from illicit drug use can still make positive choices to protect their own health in addition to the health of their families and communities. The Open Society Foundations advocate for policies and practices that advance the health and human rights of people who use drugs.
Condemning people to pain and illness while they wait for a trial isn’t justice, it’s cruelty. And it must stop.
On April 24, the Obama Administration released its 2013 National Drug Control Strategy—and it contains some huge gains for harm reduction advocates.
