The outspoken and controversial author, UCLA Professor and former Justice Department official gives his take on the origins of the American incarceration crisis.
We lead this week with news of the 54th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs which opened yesterday in Vienna. UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov called for a vigorous, comprehensive and integrated approach to reducing drug demand, supply and trafficking ~ MW & CS
This weeks front line report covers a broad ground, from news of the Subtance Misuse Consortium in the UK working to drive treatment standards up; the relationship between hepitatitis C, substance misuse and health equality; a 20 fold increase in the number of users criminalized in Ukraine; and th
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
International drug policy is at a tipping point. Emerging from a forty year repressive dark age following the excesses of the 1960s, has the world learned enough to craft a saner, more compassionate approach to drug use?
