The criminalization of illicit drug use provides positive health and social benefits by deterring nonmedical use of substances that cause great harm to HIV/AIDS-affected individuals. Incarceration that respects human rights and provides drug treatment services can accelerate an individual’s recovery from drug dependence and prevent drug-related harms to HIV/AIDS-affected individuals and prevent further proliferation of both diseases - HIV/AIDS and substance abuse.

Harm reduction or as I prefer to call it “harm maintenance,” in the USA, is one of the main projects of the Drug Policy Alliance [...]

NIDA Director Nora Volkow, M.D., discusses the latest findings on drug addiction and the brain, painting a far more sophisticated picture of the addiction [...]

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Many of the founders of prevention organizations as well as many of the foot soldiers in the war on drugs are parents who have lost children to illegal drugs or to illicit use of pharmaceuticals substances. Steven H. Steiner, Sr., is one of those bereaved parents who has become a “General” in this terrible battle. [...]

The fall edition of the UPDATE publication from ONDCP’s National Media Campaign, bears the headline “Weeding Out the Truth - Campaign Initiative Focuses on Marijuana.” It states about the campaign: “The Campaign message is that marijuana puts kids at risk. It’s harmful to young bodies and imnds that are still developing. Marijuana affects the brain [...]

The following are excerpts from a talk given by Dr. Keith Schuchard, a parent and University of Texas Professor of English, on the topic of drug use in society, and particularly marijuana, and the need for parents in participate in the effort to keep drugs away from our children. Amazingly, Dr. Schuchard, one of the [...]

According to information obtained by HNN, former UK deputy drug czar Mike Trace, is masterminding a European legalisation campaign at the same time as he has been appointed Head of Demand Reduction at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime in Vienna, UNDCP .Several documents containing letters, minutes from secret meetings, secret plans, [...]

Is This A Sinister Conspiracy To Get The World Hooked?
Commentary by Melanie Phillips

The sensational disclosure that the former deputy drug czar Mike Trace has assembled a secret network to pressurise governments into legalising drugs lifts a veil on an operation as sinister as it is extensive.
The implications are simply astounding. Despite his official role in [...]

Here are two links to pages on the website of the U.S. Department of Justice that have information important to anyone would works in drug prevention. One site looks at the damage children can suffer if exposed to the chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine, and a problem that every parent should be aware [...]