Dennis et al. presentan una serie de artículos que emplean el concepto de "narcofeminismo", un movimiento colectivo de mujeres usuarias drogas para movilizarse, luchar por su derecho a la autodeterminación y hacer oír su voz. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding

Sociology has a long-standing interest in the consumption of licit and illicit drugs, particularly as a feminist concern with scholars highlighting the ways in which drugs are used as regulatory technologies to control the conduct and subjectivities of women and other marginalised groups. This monograph flips the focus from a feminist sociological 

 with drugs as a means of confining minoritised peoples, to explore what they can do as a feminist 

. Employing the drug-user activist concept of ‘narcofeminism’, it aims to rethink how drugs are conceived in sociology and chart their role in shaping selves and worlds. This article introduces the guiding philosophy of the narcofeminist movement as articulated in an interview we conducted with founding narcofeminist activists from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Threaded through the interview are vivid examples of the ingrained and overlapping hostilities that differentially constitute drug consumption practices for women and gender minorities, and the brave acts of resistance they perform in response. In introducing the collection, we foreground a key aim that has guided its development: thinking with the insights of narcofeminism, we have sought to address the complexities of drug use and to hold in focus its potentialities both in terms of its harms and benefits, risks and rewards and, importantly, to reflect on how people navigate these counterposing forces in their situated practices of drug use. We also discuss how the collection advances the sociology of drugs by bridging disciplinary divides and disrupting binary distinctions between licit and illicit drugs, volition and compulsion, pleasure and pain, and discourse and practice, among others. This article provides an overview of the contributions that comprise the monograph, highlighting how they grapple with the ethico-political commitments of narcofeminism to rethink drug consumption as a mode of living, capable of transforming social worlds.

Narcofeminism – Living and responding at the margins

Living and responding at the margins: A conversation with narcofeminist activists

Narcofeminism: A feminist auto-ethnography on drugs

Drugs and gender – Technologies of oppression and resistance

Refusing recovery, living a ‘wayward life’: A feminist analysis of women’s drug use

The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments

Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness

Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia

Drugs and sexualities – Practices of care and connection

Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies

Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency

Pleasure, drugs, materiality and tensions in harm reduction in practice: The case of safer injection programmes

Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife

Afterword: Tensions and possibilities for a narcofeminist sociology

Narcofeminismos: revisando el uso de drogas

El seminario web incluirá una presentación del Informe Mundial sobre las Drogas 2023 a cargo de expertos de la ONUDD, además de aportaciones de la sociedad civil sobre cómo utilizan el informe en su trabajo, seguidas de preguntas y respuestas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Learn about global drug trends from the authors of the World Drug Report 2023!

UNODC experts will present the World Drug Report 2023, giving an overview of the latest developments and diving into the most up-to-date global data. In the second section of the webinar, civil society representatives will give their perspectives on some of the key topics of this year’s report.

Interpretation in French, Russian and Spanish will be available.

19 July, 3PM to 4.30PM CEST (Vienna time, UTC+2)

Global summary of the World Drug Report 2023 by 

Informe Mundial sobre las Drogas 2023 - Seminario web para la sociedad civil

El servicio es gratuito, legal y totalmente confidencial. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

For the first time, regular and ongoing community drug-checking clinics are now available in Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

A drug user in his 20s, who lives in Wellington, is looking forward to visiting the new clinic. He prefers to get his drugs checked because he said it’s quite common for dealers to bulk out drugs with other substances in order to make more money.

"I was a little bit more relaxed knowing that what I was taking, what I spent my money on, isn't going to potentially kill me,” he said.

1720 drugs were checked to determine what was in them. A third of those were completely or partially different from what people thought they were

The new clinics, provided by the Needle Exchange Services Trust, are part of a nearly four-million-dollar government investment towards the cost of delivering drug-checking services and harm reduction advice.

Servicios regulares de análisis de sustancias abiertos ahora en tres ciudades de Nueva Zelanda / Aotearoa

El OEDT ofrece un análisis exhaustivo de las próximas tendencias, retos y estrategias para un eficaz monitoreo de las drogas en el panorama europeo. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

Patterns of drug use and developments in the drug market in Europe are becoming more complex and dynamic, with major implications for drug monitoring and research. This observation prompted the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drg Addiction (EMCDDA) to conduct a futures exercise 2030 to inform the agency’s strategic reflection on how to improve its activities in the context of both ongoing rapid changes in the information environment and the new information needs likely to emerge over the next decade. A summary of this work is provided here.

El futuro del monitoreo de las drogas en Europa hasta 2030: Un informe que resume los hallazgos y lecciones extraídos del "estudio de futuro" hecho por el Observatorio Europeo de las Drogas y las Toxicomanías (OEDT).

Más de medio siglo ha pasado desde que el gobierno de Estados Unidos —con Nixon a la cabeza— inició una guerra “global” y “sin cuartel” contra las drogas, afectando para siempre la vida de millones en Latinoamérica. Se han publicado estudios que explican el fracaso de esta guerra, pero pocos relatos sobre las heridas profundas que sigue dejando en la gente, más allá del cliché de las narconarrativas. ¿Por qué ha fracasado la guerra contra las drogas? VIST invitó a ocho periodistas del continente para que respondan contando una historia real.

Replegarse y esperar - Ricardo León (Perú)

Cocaína envenenada - Javier Sinay (Argentina)

Un policía decepcionado - Rodrigo Pedroso (Brasil) 

El linchamiento - Roberto Navia (Bolivia)

La poesía y las agujas - Juan Migual Álvarez (Colombia)

Maras y marihuana - Óscar Martínez (El Salvador)

Doctor opio - Marta Martínez (Estados Unidos)

Sustancias

Narcofeminismos: revisando el uso de drogas

Informe Mundial sobre las Drogas 2023 - Seminario web para la sociedad civil

Servicios regulares de análisis de sustancias abiertos ahora en tres ciudades de Nueva Zelanda / Aotearoa

El futuro del monitoreo de las drogas en Europa hasta 2030: Un informe que resume los hallazgos y lecciones extraídos del "estudio de futuro" hecho por el Observatorio Europeo de las Drogas y las Toxicomanías (OEDT).

La guerra contra las drogas ha fracasado - Un especial de VIST sobre Drogas, Políticas y Violencias