Advertising promoting new drugs is effective but often leads to inappropriate prescribing. To protect the health of their citizens, countries should ban it.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy highlighted the negative impact of the War on Drugs and how the criminalisation of people who use drugs leads to the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hep C.
A study presented by a UM PhD candidate found 95% of 400 drug users in Klang surveyed had a history of detention in a lock-up. Half alleged getting beaten up or tortured by the police, while 35% experienced confiscation of injecting equipment.
The best form of inspection is an unannounced one, but the pandemic changed the game for regulators. They’ll need to work together to protect consumers.
The Galen Centre wants removal of Clause 17 from the tobacco control bill to avoid criminalising smoking/ vaping, possession, and use of tobacco and vape products by the GEG born from 2007.
Poverty drives the market in inferior medicines just as it drives other examples of inequality. A socially integrated approach is needed to fight the problem.