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Student Drug Testing - Beyond 2008 Series #6.
As we reported earlier, the U.S....
Regions: Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
War on Drugs - Beyond 2008 Series #5.
In the last three decades prison population in the U.S....
Regions: Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
Abstinence first? - Beyond 2008 Series #4.
Some people think that the idea of total abstinence is deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. But this is not true....
Regions: Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
A Drug Free World - Could we do it? - Beyond 2008 Series #3.
Not long before the delegates of member states gathered in New York at the UNGASS on drugs in 1998, outstanding professionals and politicians from all around the world addressed Kofi Annan, the UN Sec...
Regions: Anguilla, Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
Press conference in Hungary - Beyond 2008 Series #1.
The United Nations Association of Hungary organized a press conference on the International Day Against Drug Abuse, June 26, 2008....
Regions: Hungary
Issues: Drugs & human rights
Three Days in ten minutes - Beyond 2008 Series #2.
The Vienna NGO Committee organized a global NGO forum on the review of the implementation of goals set by the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 1998....
Regions: Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
The True Meaning of Harm Reduction
"Harm reduction" is a divisive term among treatment professionals working with drug users -- it irritates many who believe that abstinence is the only legitimate goal of drug related interventions....
Regions: Austria
Issues: Drugs & human rights
Why Russia Says No To Methadone?
We believe that it is one of the biggest scandal of the world of drug treatment that substituion treatment is banned in a country with 1,5 million people living with HIV – the majority of them infec...
Regions: Russia
Issues: Drugs & human rights
Looking for an Alternative
More than 50 000 people are arrested and forced to undergo drug testing by the police in the Republic of Georgia every year....
Regions: Georgia
Issues: Drugs & human rights, Police brutality
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch at the DPA conference Part 3.
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is currently the Director of the International Harm Reduction Development program at the Open Society Institute (OSI), which has pioneered technical and financial support for...