Health & Justice Responses 

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 its...

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 plays...