The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drugs
July 20, 2014 2:11 PM Subscribe
The call comes in a new report on how to prevent, diagnose and treat HIV among “key populations”, including drug users. Have a look at page 91 (page 113 of the PDF). Under “Good practice recommendations concerning decriminalization”, the WHO recommends that for people who use or inject drugs:
-Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration.
-Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize the use of clean needles and syringes (and that permit NSPs [needle and syringe programmes]) and that legalize OST [opioid substitution therapy] for people who are opioid-dependent.
-Countries should ban compulsory treatment for people who use and/or inject drugs.
-Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize injection and other use of drugs and, thereby, reduce incarceration.
-Countries should work toward developing policies and laws that decriminalize the use of clean needles and syringes (and that permit NSPs [needle and syringe programmes]) and that legalize OST [opioid substitution therapy] for people who are opioid-dependent.
-Countries should ban compulsory treatment for people who use and/or inject drugs.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a strange framing that makes it sound like there's some agenda here. The blog post is taking a weirdly "gotcha" tone about the recommendation; maybe try again with a different link? -- LobsterMitten
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