A study conducted by the Portuguese harm reduction NGO, APDES, presents how stigma affects the daily lives of drug users.
Archives for April 2016
The UNGASS on Drugs: Reform Aborted
After a long gestation, the UN drug reform experiment suffered a miscarriage. It seems the UN is not the catalyst of change but its mirror. Reformers can learn many lessons – but can also be proud of their achievements.
The UN Summit on Drugs Ended Before It Began
The UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) adopted the outcome document without a debate, right before the real discussion could have started.
Drug Policy is Race Policy
Hundreds of drug reformers gathered at the “Drug Policy and the Politics of Race” event, organised at Columbia University on Sunday, to discuss how repressive drug policies affect the lives of communities of colour. Watch our videos!
This Is How Young Artists See the War on Drugs: The Winners of Our Poster Contest
We are glad to present the five best posters submitted to our poster contest targeting the UNGASS on drugs this year!
Dose of Science: LSD therapy for alcohol dependence
In this edition of Dose of Science, we are going to take a look at a meta-analysis of using LSD therapy to treat alcoholism [1]. ‘Meta-analysis’ means that the study pools together data derived from multiple trials and re-analyses the combined evidence. The advantage is that the combined evidence reduces the statistical uncertainties, and permits more robust conclusions than any of the individual studies in isolation.