IDPC welcomes the report’s impressive range of data and analysis, as well as its attention to environmental impacts; but regrets the continued lack of acknowledgement of the destructive impact of punitive drug policies, related human rights abuses and opportunities for meaningful reform.
IDPC highlight some of the key activities and impacts achieved through IDPC’s work for the period running from April 2021 to March 2022, focusing on the five themes of our Strategic Plan for 2021-2023.
Benjamin et al. call on social workers to advocate for and enact decriminalisation, harm reduction and community reinvestment in their practices, to detract their complicity in maintaining the status quo and instead provide anti-carceral, person-centred social work services.
Dejusticia argues for the importance of a fiscal framework with a focus on financing the goals of reducing the illegal market, preserving public health and assisting populations affected by drug policy.
This collection of essays puts into sharp relief that state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killings in the name of drug control have less to do with preserving cultural values and more to do with preserving political power.
