USA. The Feds Are Raiding the Offices of Doctors Who Prescribe Addiction Medication Addiction doctors are worried about federal retribution against their treatment programs, and they're terrified for their patients, whose lives are at risk from o...

Portugal. How Portugal Is Kicking its Heroin Habit (Video) Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates...

Schweiz. Bedingte Geldstrafe für Psychiater wegen fahrlässiger Tötung Das Bundesgericht hat die Verurteilung eines Psychiaters wegen fahrlässiger Tötung bestätigt, der einem Gefängnisinsassen Methadon und Valium...

Schottland. Minor drug users 'should not be charged' A Scottish government adviser has said people caught with small amounts of illegal substances should no longer be prosecuted.  Dr Roy Robertson wants the country's forthcoming substance m...

USA. This algorithm is quickly clearing old marijuana convictions in San Francisco Now that weed is legal in California, people with old marijuana arrests can have their records cleared. Code for America, working with the SF District Attorney&rsq...

Finnland. Finland Health Experts Call for Decriminalisation of All Drug Use, Igniting Public Debate Experts from the Finnish government’s leading health agency have called for the decriminalisation of all drug use, igniting a debate that ha...