- Date
- March 2009
A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a "drug-free world," there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. Instead, aggressive drug control policies have led to increased incarceration for minor offenses, human rights violations, and disease.
This book examines the descent of the global war on drugs into a war on people who use drugs. From Puerto Rico to Phnom Penh, Manipur to Moscow, the scars of this war are carried on the bodies and minds of drug users, their families, and the health and service providers who work with them.
The following topics are included in this volume:
- Police Abuse of Injection Drug Users in Indonesia
- Arbitrary Detention and Police Abuse of Drug Users in Cambodia
- Forced Drug Testing in China
- Drug Control Policies and HIV Prevention and Care Among Injection Drug Users in Imphal, India
- Effects of UN and Russian Influence on Drug Policy in Central Asia
- The Impacts of the Drug War in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Civil Society Reflections on 10 Years of Drug Control in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Twin Epidemics—Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Pakistan
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Harm Reduction for All
A Lifesaving Loan: A New Investment to Help Curb the U.S. Overdose Crisis
For over a decade, the small Remedy Alliance nonprofit has revolutionized providing lifesaving healthcare for people who use drugs. Our new investment will help the group increase access to the overdose antidote naloxone.
Drug Policy
Three Decades of Drug Policy Reform Work
Over the past 30 years, Open Society has been the largest philanthropic supporter of efforts to reform drug policy and promote harm reduction around the world. This is a timeline of the Foundations’ pathbreaking work.
WAR IS OVER?
How the United States Fueled a Global Drug War, and Why It Must End
As U.S. domestic drug policy reform gains momentum, it is time the United States makes a concerted effort to de-escalate the failed war on drugs elsewhere.