4 July 2024
Current drug laws focus on criminalisation, causing high incarceration rates and poor outcomes. Reform is needed to prioritise harm reduction and treatment.
Tag: decriminalisation
17 April 2023
HRI executive director Naomi Burke-Shyne says "stigma and lies" are the basis of most public policy on drugs. "Because there is so much scaremongering on drugs, many people have bought into the un-nuanced idea that drug use is bad, rather than drug policy is bad".
17 April 2023
Former New Zealand PM Helen Clark calls for the decriminalisation of drug use and possession and the legal regulation of all drugs, saying that cannabis, for example, should be regulated similar to tobacco that's actually more dangerous.
26 August 2022
Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman says evidence-based thresholds must be determined for personal use versus trafficking, so that people caught in possession of drugs with amounts that are compatible with personal use, rather than sale, can be linked to treatment.
30 January 2020
Malaysia will form a new holistic and evidence-based drug policy within the next three years, a radical change in policy.
30 October 2019
The think tank says it is timely that the approach towards drug use is shifted from a punitive to a health-based one.
3 September 2019
Most Cure & Care centres don't provide proper treatment to drug users as they still do cold turkey.
9 July 2019
Incarcerating drug users in overcrowded detention centres doesn't help them.
28 June 2019
Trafficking of drugs remains a crime.
25 June 2019
Medication assisted therapy has over 60% retention treatment rates.