This investigation seeks to give an update on the situation of people incarcerated for drug crimes and also aims to propose alternatives to incarceration (CEDD)
Bibliography: Interventions – Law Enforcement
Alarming number of countries flout international law by executing for drug-related crimes
The death penalty continues to be used as a tool in the so-called “war on drugs”, with an alarming number of states across the globe executing people convicted on drug-related charges, in clear violation of international law (Amnesty International)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2015
While the report notes that there still are a troubling number of governments with capital drug laws, in practice very few states actually execute people for drugs (Harm Reduction International)
Naloxone – what the new legislation changes mean
Kate Halliday, SMMGP Programme Lead, discusses the recent legislation changes which make naloxone more readily available for those that need it (SMMGP)
Tackling the issue of New Psychoactive Substances in prisons
This series of RAPt research and policy briefings aims to synthesise over 20 years of practical experience, combined with data and analysis from our in-house research team, to improve our understanding of how to effectively tackle drug- and/or alcoholrelated crime
EMCDDA–Europol Joint Report on a new psychoactive substance: 1-phenyl-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-1-pentanone (α-PVP)
The two organisations concluded that sufficient information had been accumulated to merit the production of a Joint Report on α-PVP as stipulated by Article 5.1 of the Council Decision
Penalties for drug law offences in Europe at a glance
This tool lets you examine and compare the penalties or rehabilitative responses for the core offences of drug use, possession for personal use, and supply-related offences, across countries in Europe (EMCDDA)
Ministerial response to ACMD report on nitrous oxide misuse
Letter from Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, and Mike Penning, Minister of State for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims to Professor Les Iversen regarding the ACMD’s advice on nitrous oxide misuse (Home Office)
Profit from drugs inside prisons feeding crime outside, police leaders warned
Police forces have been told to face up to the “fall-out” from Britain’s burgeoning prison population as the Government sets out a bold new-for-old building programme (Police Professional)
Helping young adult prisoners
Compared with older prisoners, young adults were less likely to report needing help with a drug problem (15% compared with 33%). Young adults were less likely than older prisoners to report having used a Class A drug in the four weeks before custody (31% compared with 45%). A smaller proportion of young adults than older prisoners linked their offending behaviour with drugs (25% compared with 46%) – (Russel Webster)
All these experts and agencies say: Don’t treat drug users as criminals. It’s time politicians listened
We should be able to argue for the decriminalisation of drugs on the basis of the evidence (which is overwhelming) that criminalisation doesn’t deter use, but does exacerbate a range of serious health and social harms (TDPF)
Home Office drug advisers try to clear up Theresa May’s mess
Psychoactive substances bill: Designed to take drug policy outside the realm of reason? (Politics.co)
Drug possession should be removed from police performance indicators
In this article, Michael Shiner provides an overview of drug reform in Britain and the reclassification of cannabis (LSE)
Illicit Drug Use and Harms, and Related Interventions and Policy in Canada
While recent federal governments introduced several law and policy measures reinforcing a repression approach to illicit drug use, lower-level jurisdictions (e.g., provincial/municipal levels) and non-governmental organizations increasingly promoted social- and health-oriented intervention frameworks and interventions, therefore creating an increasingly bifurcated–and even inherently contradictory–drug policy landscape and reality in Canada
Urban drug gangs target coastal communities
The NCA’s ‘County Lines’ report shows that around half the places affected are coastal towns with high levels of unemployment, mental health issues or crime (National Crime Agency and National Police Chiefs Council)
Comparing models of drug decriminalisation
An e-tool by IDPC
Report on the prevention of drug-related crime
ICPC wrote a report for the Government of Canada on the prevention of drug-related crime. More precisely, the study focus on the legislative frameworks and programmes to prevent violent behavior associated with the acquisition and use of drugs International Centre for the Prevention of Crime)(
Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders
Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or punishment that are established in the laws of many countries in Europe today (EMCDDA)
Drug misuse: findings from the 2014 to 2015 CSEW
This release examines the extent and trends in illicit drug use among a nationally representative sample of 16 to 59 year olds resident in households in England and Wales, and is based on results from the 2014/15 Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office)
Public health functions to be exercised by NHS England
Public health services for people in prison or other places of detention, including those held in the Children &Young People’s Secure Estate (Public Health England)
Alternatives to punishment for drug-using offenders
Based on the options provided by the international drug control legal framework, this paper considers the rehabilitative measures of treating, educating or reintegrating drug users as alternatives or additions to conviction or punishment that are established in the laws of many countries in Europe today (EMCDDA)
Safety in prisons: HM Chief Inspector’s warning on the way out
The annual report from the HM Inspectorate for Prisons (HMI) was published this week, and it makes for challenging reading (MEAM)
The hidden market for legal highs in prison
The report from Nigel Newcomen CBE, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is the latest to paint a very worrying picture about the scale of the market for new psychoactive substances (NPS) in prisons, their impact on the health of prisoners and on the stability of prison regimes (The Justice Gap)
New Psychoactive Substances – Fatal incident investigations issue 9
This Learning Lessons Bulletin examines deaths of prisoners where the use of ‘NPS’ type drugs was suspected (Prison and Probation Ombudsman, UK)
Legal highs bill savaged by home secretary’s own advisers
Early research in depression could fall foul of the psychoactive substances bill, experts warn (Politics UK)
Report of visit by a Committee delegation to examine the impact of Portuguese approach to the possession of certain drugs
The Joint Committee decided to undertake a study into the effects of crimes carried out in communities by gangs and held a number of public hearings in relation to this matter (Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, Ireland)
Two new “legal highs” to be banned under temporary order
Two new so-called “legal highs” have been banned by the Government (Home Office)
Methylphenidate-based novel psychoactive substances: temporary class drug order report
This report advises on a temporary class drug order report on a number of methylphenidate-based novel psychoactive substances (ACMD)
New psychoactive substances in Europe: Innovative legal responses
This short report provides an overview of how European countries are developing innovative legal responses to the challenges presented to public health and drug policy by the rapidly evolving market for new psychoactive substances (EMCDDA)
National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2015
Drugs on page 23 (National Crime Agency)
Psychoactive Substances Bill
Lord’s Amendments (Parliament UK)
Social bias in the policing of illicit drug users in the UK and Australia
Findings from a self-report study (University of Kent)
Prison health: health and justice annual report
Public Health England (PHE) annual report on health trends in prisons and other prescribed places of detention
Getting Drug Policy Right for Women and Girls
When most people picture the illicit drug trade – the traffickers, the gangs, the kingpins – they picture a world comprised of men. But drugs and drug-related crime affect women uniquely. Understanding how women fit into this dynamic is crucial to getting drug policy right ( Open Society Foundations)
Drug decriminalisation in Portugal
Setting the record straight (TDPF)
Models for the legal supply of cannabis
Recent developments (EMCDDA)
Creation of a blanket ban on new psychoactive substances in the UK
Impact assessment of the bill (Home Office)
Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia
A critical analysis of their effects (Drug Policy)
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: What do the international drug control treaties say about ‘most serious crimes’?
By Dr Rick Lines. Executive Director of Harm Reduction International, and a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia
A critical analysis of their effects (Drug Policy)
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