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Drug Abuse and HIV/Aids
News
- Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action
- June 2011
- PDF, English
- Media Release: Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use calls on UN meeting to address the role of injecting drug use in the AIDS epidemic
- June 2011
- PDF, English
- Over two hundred leading HIV/AIDS, development and human rights organisations back the declaration. HIV prevention programs for injecting drug users need to scale up twenty fold to meet UN estimates for basic need.
- Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
- June 2011
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- The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40 years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed.
- To learn more about the Commission, visit: www.globalcommissionondrugs.org
- Lancet Editorial - HIV and injecting drug use: a global call for action
- April 2011
- PDF, English
- Global Commission on Drug Policie: Demand Reduction and Harm Reduction
- January 2011
- PDF, English
- Working Paper by Dr Alex Wodak, ßpepared for the First Meeting of the Commission, Geneva, 24-25 January 2011
- Efforts to reduce the demand for illicit drugs through school-based and mass education campaigns have been generally disappointing. Benefits have usually been small and transient. Also, the benefits reported from education have usually only been less positive attitudes to taking illicit drugs rather than any reduction in consumption, let alone a reduction in harms. Methods for improving the effectiveness of drug education have been identified but the implementation of drug education is often poor and ignores the methods usually associated with greater effectiveness. Reducing the demand for drugs through education may be cost effective but these modest gains may take some years to materialise.
- Dr Alex Wodak AM is the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. at Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Australia.
Archives
- Final Report on Prevention, Treatment, and Harm Reduction Services in Prison, on Reintegration Services on Release from Prison and Methods to Monitor/Analyse Drug use among Prisoners
- April 2008
- PDF, English
- Universität Bremen, Wissenschaftliches Institut der Ärzte Deutschlands gem. e.V., Centre for Interdisziplinary Addiction Research (CIAR)