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From all corners of the drugwar: Introducing, an officer transformed
Wayward teen becomes a serving Policeman, arrests drug users, drug barons/ sellers and ends up addicted himself. What a story
The Need for Drug Policy Reform House of Lords 25th Feb 2016
Baron Brian Paddick has agreed to host a meeting in the House of Lords on the controversial question of drug reform in the UK. Many countries across Europe and beyond are finally tackling ineffective drug policies by freeing users from the criminal implications of addiction and plenty of evidence shows the beneficial impact this has […]
Responsible Research and Development Affordable Medicines Seminar/Dec 2015
Athens December 2015: It does seem outrageously unjust that depending on where you live on the planet, you will or will not be able to get medicines to stop these three illnesses/conditions from hurting your life terribly or even killing you. For example charging patients $1,000 for one pill.. In the US, for example, Hep […]
Marsha Burnetts’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen and thank you for allowing me to address you here today. My name is Marsha and I am a recovering addict living with HIV disease. I am a 43 year old mother of four children , two of whom are still in foster care, in the State of Vermont. I […]
Posted in Drug Policy Reform Advocacy, Harm Reduction, International 
Tags: UN Drug Policy 
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My story – by Clark French The last year my life has changed dramatically, like no other year before it. Life has changed to the extent that I’m no longer really the same person I was a year ago – I’ve had the hardest time of my life, by a long shot, but I’ve come […]
12 Steps to “Living positively with Hepatitis C”
As an illness hepatitis C can take a long time to become symptomatic, however, when it does it can affect people in many different ways, how each person reacts to this will be different. In fact everything could differ from one person to another and what they do to manage their illness will be different. […]
Campaign targets Malaysia to end death penalty for drug offences
From March 8th – 12th (2010) during the yearly meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, governments from all over the world will once again declare their support to the global fight against drugs, i.e. the substances that were prohibited worldwide by a UN Convention in 1961. In Malaysia, as in […]
