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Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Challenges and Opportunities in Providing Evidence-Based Treatment for Persons in the Criminal Justice System, on the 27th of June, 2024.

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Systems Change and the Role of the University through the lens of the ITTC Network: Part 2, Sample ITTC Initiatives in Vietnam, South Africa and Peru, on the 27th of June, 2024.

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Harm Reduction: Strategies, Challenges, and Global Perspectives in Substance Use, on the 26th of June, 2024.

Presented at Thessaloniki 2024 - Panel: Contextual and Higher Education Challenges in the Fields of Harm Reduction, on the 26th of June, 2024.

ISSUP Nigeria presents the 22nd session of its bi-monthly webinar in the Knowledge Update Series. This webinar will focus on the topic of 'Therapeutic Community as a model in the Management of Substance Use Disorders.'

Alternatif untuk Penahanan (ATI) mencakup pendekatan multi-sektor pada strategi dan program yang dirancang untuk mengalihkan individu dengan gangguan penggunaan zat dari pemenjaraan konvensional. Alternatif ini membahas perawatan, dukungan...

The global incarceration rate has been steadily rising, with nearly 11 million individuals detained either awaiting trial or serving sentences worldwide. Prison overcrowding presents a longstanding and pervasive challenge for numerous...

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) highlights the strong link between drug use and criminal behavior, recognizing addiction as a disease requiring public health and safety interventions. The administration aims to break the cycle of drug use and crime through innovative, evidence-based approaches. These include smart probation strategies, like Hawaii's HOPE program and South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Project, which emphasize swift and certain sanctions for violations, reducing recidivism and saving costs. Drug courts, which combine treatment with judicial oversight, have shown success in reducing substance use and criminal activity. The administration supports expanding these programs to improve public safety and health outcomes while reducing correctional costs.

Alternatives to incarceration (ATIs) are mainly designed for offenders whose criminal behavior is driven by an underlying substance abuse disorder. This behavior can include not only crimes related to substance use (e.g., possession) but...

Background:

Since 1996, an urban community-based organization has been providing screening, testing, overdose prevention, referrals, and access to treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) and communicable diseases such as HIV through...

ISSUP, in collaboration with ICATI, presents part II of the ATI webinar series on the Fundamentals of Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI).

In recent weeks, we have continued to prepare the implementation of the activities we outlined in our previous article (https://www.issup.net/knowledge-share/resources/2024-02/progress-and-promise-2024-begins-issup-philippines). Despite...

Four years after voters in the state of Oregon approved Measure 110, a failed decriminalization drug policy experiment in the U.S., Oregon's Governor Tina Kotek has endorsed legislation reintroducing criminal penalties for minor drug...

Present your work at the 1st International Conference on Drugs Research and Policy 2024!

The global approach to drugs and substance policy is a multifaceted challenge involving numerous nations and organizations. Many United Nations focal...

ISSUP and ICATI webinar on Alternatives to Incarceration.

The Vienna & New York NGO Committees on Drugs are pleased to present the global civil society report for the 2024 mid-term review of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).
The report is the result of constructive inputs by more than 200...

The Government of Uganda (GOU) is making every possible effort to improve the health and socio-economic conditions of the people of Uganda in line with the policy of poverty eradication.

The government recognizes the role that alcohol...

ISSUP presents its webinar on the science behind self-care. This webinar discusses the science of self-care, why it important, and how it works physiologically and neurologically.

On 10-11 November  2023, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), jointly with the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), the United...