At the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) in Melbourne, Australia, people inject drugs under medical supervision. MSIR provides other services, including Hep C testing, opioid replacement therapy, a GP clinic, and dental care. Should Malaysia adopt this? A client of […]
By Helen Clark Read the op-ed on Independent.co.uk We should have a world where people understand the risks of drugs through evidence-based prevention and education, not through repression and fear. The UK has announced an overhaul of its approach to […]
By Helen Clark Read the op-ed on TheHill.com The late George Shultz was among the founding members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a group of former heads of state and other personalities, which I currently chair. We advocate […]
Read the full blog entry on Virgin.com For the past nine years, I’ve had the privilege of being a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, a high-level group of former leaders in government, civil society and business. My […]
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Read original article in EUObserver By Michel Kazatchkine, former director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy; and Mary Chinery-Hesse, Chancellor of the university of Ghana and member […]
Read original article in the Huffington Post A lot has been written about the current crisis of opioid addiction and overdose, which is now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50. Even if this dramatic development affects almost solely […]
César Gaviria [member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy] governed Colombia from 1990-1994, during which time he fought Pablo Escobar’s Medellín drug cartel and oversaw the civil war between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Recently, the […]
A new UNO report shows a dramatic increase in the production and consumption of illicit drugs all over the world. César Gaviria from the Global Commission on Drug Policy calls for a new approach. Read original article in German in […]