Malaysia. Malaysia’s Drug Law Condemns Vulnerable Women to Death  Most women on death row in Malaysia have been sentenced under a strict drug trafficking law that fails to take their vulnerable socioeconomic realities into account. (New Nara...

‘Treatment in Liberty’ - Human Rights and Compulsory Detention for Drug Use Rick Lines, Julie Hannah, Giada Girelli,  Human Rights Law Review, 2021;, ngab022, doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngab022 https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/Ca...

USA. Punishing drug use heightens the stigma of addiction Our understanding of substance use disorders as chronic but treatable health conditions has come a long way since the dark days when they were thought of as character flaws — or worse. Yet...

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture On the ‘accountability gap’ for torture and ill-treatment in private drug treatment centres (…) Across the world, thousands of people who use drugs are detained against their will in private drug...

Death Penalty For Drug Offences: Global Overview 2020 Harm Reduction International has monitored the use of the death penalty for drug offences worldwide since our first ground-breaking publication on this issue in 2007. This report, our tenth on...

USA. Illinois Methadone Patients Could Be First to Have Privacy Rolled Back After SAMHSA Rule-Change An Illinois Senator appears to be the first state lawmaker to push for a bill that would make a controversial federal rollback of opioid use diso...