“In this trenchant piece, originally delivered at the annual conference of the Drug Policy Foundation, and now published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Stanton evaluates the popular drug reform conception that shifting from coercive drug policies to treatment will radically transform the American drug use and treatment scene.”
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This episode details and unpacks several issues with drug courts and how they oftentimes are masked as being compassionate, when in reality their practices often fall short of justice.
Link: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-breach/episode/the-catch-22-of-drug-courts-58340045
“In this context, and since drug prohibition has not meaningfully reduced drug supply, alternative regulatory models will be required if drug supply and drug market violence are to be meaningfully reduced.”
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Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395911000223?via%3Dihub
“This commentary presents a set of recommendations to UN agencies, governments, donor agencies, academics, researchers and civil society, challenging these actors to work alongside people who use drugs to enact a new reality based on solidarity and cooperation, protection of health, restoration of rights and dignity and most importantly to mobilize to win the peace.”
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Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0955395920301730
“Given the political momentum generated due to the upcoming HLM on UHC and the potential for country-level action towards realizing universal health coverage, it is important for all drug user rights advocates to stay informed.
This INPUD Technical Brief explains how Universal Health Coverage (UHC) can be both an opportunity and a concern for the health and rights of people who use drugs.”
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“Drug control intersects with much of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Member State pledge to leave no one behind. In line with the 2030 Agenda, the UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021, and the HIV, Health, and Development Strategy 2016-2021: Connecting the Dots, the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy provide a comprehensive set of international legal standards for placing human dignity and sustainable development at the center of Member State responses to illicit drug economies.”
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This resource details the differences in standards for illicit drugs and synthetic versions of those drugs dating back to the enactment of the Federal Analog Act of 1986. This act stated that if a synthetic drug has chemical structures close enough to the drug it means to imitate that it will also be outlawed. This law has been far-reaching in what and who it impacts, making it an Act worth revisiting more than 20 years later.
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“The drug use landscape is dynamic and changing. Changes in public attitudes and laws towards drug use have occurred in an increasing number of countries. Global drug production and consumption are increasing as are the risks and harms to health, while new substances continue to emerge. This Series focuses on opioids, cannabinoids, stimulants, and new psychoactive substances. The Series authors review the evidence on the epidemiology of drug use and related harms and interventions (treatment and policies) to address them. They highlight issues that are likely to become increasingly important in the next decade.”
This article focuses on two gaps in the modern criminal law course: “the sevenfold growth in the incarcerated population that happened after 1972” and the “massive ‘War on Drugs’ that exploded in the United States between 1985 and 1995.”
Link: https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=home
This article details how a professor may encourage a discussion of explicit and implicit biases in a criminal law course, which will not only create better and more socially aware lawyers but also improve the learning environment for any and all law students.
Link: https://jle.aals.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1535&context=home