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“The best way to ensure global security is through sustainable development and the realisation of human rights – not trade wars or arms races.” UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk at the opening of the 26th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the #RightToDevelopment

Glasgow's supervised drug consumption facility was accessed 2,691 times in its first 4 months, with 30 medical emergencies attended too Theres huge unmet nationwide demand for SDCF/OPCs, proven to reduce harm, save lives & facilitate service access pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/u… 1/

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"Me voy a morir feliz por haber vivido de acuerdo a lo que pensaba".

Extraordinary and chilling moment at the UN. Relief chief Tom Fletcher accuses Israel of using starvation “as a bargaining chip.” Urges the Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza.

Where too many politicians lack the courage to challenge the failed 'war on drugs', Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema has showed pragmatic leadership: "why leave a health-risk product to criminals? Alcohol & medicine are regulated, why not drugs?" monocle.com/affairs/amster… 1/

I'm giving a talk this morning for the Drugs & Substance Misuse Conference 2025 about 'The rise of Ketamine (& what to do about it)'* *Coming soon: New Transform resource on Ketamine policy, feeding into the debate on proposed reclassification to class A governmentevents.co.uk/event/drugs-an…

🇺🇳 UN SG António Guterres — your leadership can shape the future of drug policy! 183 civil society groups urge you to take bold and inclusive action in the upcoming global review! 📄Open letter: idpc.net/news/2025/05/1…

🚨NEW (guest) BLOG🚨 *Protecting communities means protecting Safer Consumption Facilities* Kirsten Horsburgh reflects on the opening of the UK's first SCF "ppl who use drugs deserve safety, too. They are part of the community - not separate from it" transformdrugs.org/blog/protectin…

Happy to have contributed in a small way to this excellent new IDPC briefing on the (potentially) consequential UN expert panel reviewing the UN drug control system: What's going on? What can it achieve? How can we help it to deliver meaningful change?👇

*Why re-classification won't solve the Ketamine crisis* James Pierce writing for the Anyone's Child: Families for Safer Drug Control blog "Increased criminalisation is a failure. Use has increased, harms have increased, and ketamine is now more widely available than ever before" anyoneschild.org/2025/05/why-re…

Bloody hell. AI video is getting ridiculously good, ridiculously fast. This is just the start - we really should be thinking about implications and management/regulation...