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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Former Federal prisoner Amy Ralston PovahIn 1991 Amy Ralson Povah was sentenced to 24 years in Federal prison for a crime she did not commit. An incredible...
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Published in: 50.50The "calm down dear" factor writ large: AIDS, women and the UN
In the words of the African parable, when elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Then what will they have to...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 12th 2011
The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for...
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Published in: HomeHIV/AIDS at the UN: Battleground of the war on drugsNumerous campaigns have recently called for a fundamental rethink of global drugs policy and for the urgent scale up...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 4th 2011
With much attention focused this week on the landmark Global Commission Report, the Drug Policy Report takes a look...
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Published in: HomeDrug Policy Forum Special Report - The Global Commission on Drug Policy
On Thursday the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a groundbreaking report condemning the drug war as a...
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Published in: HomeDrugs, the Death Penalty and a Cautionary Tale for Governments
The harrowing struggle to spare a young Australian named Scott Rush from the firing squad in Indonesia appears to be...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 23rd 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news of a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court to reduce California's severe...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 9th 2011
This week we lead with news that as tens of thousands of people in Mexico take to the streets to demand an end to...
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Published in: oDRHuman rights for Russian drug addicts: I will not be silenced!Arguments over the benefits of opiate substitution therapy versus abstinence as the most successful way of dealing...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Christian Parenti on American Incarceration
In this excerpt from his interview for The Exile Nation Project, Parenti describes what has changed in the twelve...
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Published in: HomeA Prescription for Recovery
Lisa Mojer Torres, a vocal proponent of Methadone Maintenance sadly died on April 5th. Reading her changed my...
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Published in: HomeThe Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action
HIV infection rates have been falling as have AIDS related deaths. But along with the good news there remains great...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 2nd 2011
We lead this weeks report with news that at the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN's...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Eric Sterling on "The Crimes of American History"
In this excerpt from his extended Exile Nation Project interview, Eric Sterling, former US Congressional lawyer and...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 25th 2011
With around 80,000 claimants of Incapacity Benefit having a drug or alcohol dependency, we lead this weeks report...
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Published in: oDRChernobyl: the first monthTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing that gripped him...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 18th 2011
We lead this week with news from Central America, where the arrival of big-time drug trafficking has had a lethal...
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Published in: HomeTreating symptoms versus fighting causes - improving health in the developing world
Naïve faith in scientific progress to solve health issues in developing countries distracts from solutions that are...
