https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/briefing/us-drug-policy-reducing-harm.html
For decades, the U.S. focused on trying to scare people away from drugs, instituting tough criminal penalties and emphasizing law enforcement over addiction treatment. But a major change is

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68932612
The US Drug Enforcement Administration plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in US drug policy. At a federal level, marijuana is classified as a "Schedule I

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us
Aaron Hinton has lived his whole life under the drug war. He has watched many Black men like himself get caught up in drugs year after year, swept into the nation's criminal justice system. Brian

https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-rescheduling-drug-policy-biden-15b43441670757b0c2bfa36731e47d07
Updated 12:58 PM PDT, May 16, 2024. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of U.S. drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/briefing-room/2024/02/01/white-house-drug-policy-director-statement-on-new-actions-to-expand-access-to-treatment-and-save-lives/
Washington, D.C. - Today, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Dr. Rahul Gupta released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/drug_policy
Using the synthetic control method to compare post-drug policy changes in fatal drug overdose rates in Oregon and Washington and estimated rates in the absence of these drug policy changes, ... "Our study also underscores the importance of recognizing the long history of uncertainty, punitive actions, and negative experiences with police among

https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs
The War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative in America that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by increasing and enforcing penalties for offenders.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/prescription-drug-policy-2022-and-2023-year-review-and-year-ahead
Clinical trials. Withdrawal. FDA approvals process. Prescription Drug Policy, 2022 And 2023: The Year In Review And The Year Ahead. Rachel Sachs. January 9, 2023Doi: 10.1377/forefront.20230109.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/21/1207844527/reform-groups-want-big-changes-to-u-s-drug-policy
Reform groups want big changes to U.S. drug policy. October 21, 20236:17 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. Brian Mann. Listen · 3:33. Download. Embed. Transcript. As drug deaths continue to

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ondcp/drugpolicyreform
The Obama Administration's plan to reduce drug use and its consequences—the National Drug Control Strategy —represents a 21st century approach to drug policy. This science-based plan, guided by the latest research on substance use, contains more than 100 specific reforms to support our work to protect public health and safety in America.

https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/historic-drug-decriminalization-bill-congress
After 51 years since President Nixon declared the disastrous "war on drugs", most Americans agree it's been a failure. We're making historic headway to end it including the first-ever drug decriminalization bill introduced in Congress just a year ago.. The groundbreaking Drug Policy Reform Act (DPRA) will help dismantle the federal drug war through decriminalizing drugs and investing in

https://drugpolicy.org/drug-war-history/
The Drug Policy Alliance is created. In 1994, Ethan Nadelmann founded The Lindesmith Center as the first U.S. project of George Soros' Open Society Institute. In 2000, the growing Center merged with the Drug Policy Foundation to create the Drug Policy Alliance (today's leading drug policy reform organization). George W. Bush Funded the Drug War

https://drugpolicy.org/news/the-drug-policy-alliance-responds-to-the-2024-state-of-the-union-address/
The Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organization in the U.S. working to end the drug war, repair its harms, and build a non-punitive, equitable, and regulated drug market. We envision a world that embraces the full humanity of people, regardless of their relationship to drugs. We advocate that the regulation of drugs be grounded in evidence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BidenHarris-Statement-of-Drug-Policy-Priorities-April-1.pdf
DRUG CONTROL POLICY. ... Since 2015, overdose death numbers have risen 35 percent, reaching a historic high of 70,630 deaths in 2019. 1. ... changes are critical, and put in place or recommend the

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/time-change-advancing-new-drug-policies-uphold-human-rights
Marking "World Drugs Day" on 26 June, as activists worldwide are joining together under the #SupportDontPunish campaign, Amnesty International is launching its new policy paper, 'Time for

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/why-we-need-drug-policy-reform
The Drug Policy Alliance and Transform International both coordinate and support campaigns for cannabis regulation for medical and recreational purposes. The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and the International Drug Policy Consortium both support the decriminalization movement in countries such as Canada, Thailand, Zimbabwe, and Uruguay.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/cder-conversations/modernizing-new-drugs-regulatory-program
In this CDER Conversation, Yoni Tyberg, associate director of the Special Program Staff in the Office of New Drugs (OND), discusses the New Drugs Regulatory Program (NDRP) modernization, its

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398966/
This paper places America's "war on drugs" in perspective in order to develop a new metaphor for control of drug misuse. A brief and focused history of America's experience with substance use and substance use policy over the past several hundred years provides background and a framework to compare the current Pharmacological Revolution with America's Nineteenth Century Industrial Revolution.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R43749.pdf
History and Background of U.S. Drug Enforcement This section outlines historic development and major changes in federal drug enforcement to help provide an understanding of how and why certain laws and policies were implemented and how these developments and changes shaped current drug enforcement policy. Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol30/8042/2024/en/
To mark "World Drugs Day" on 26 June as activists worldwide are joining together under the #SupportDontPunish campaign, Amnesty International is launching this new policy paper to contribute to the advancement of drug policies that better uphold human rights. Amnesty International is calling on States to adopt new models of drug control that put the […]

https://drugpolicy.org/
People need support, not punishment. The decision to punish drug use has affected nearly every aspect of daily life. The drug war has now spread beyond the criminal system into education, employment, housing, and more. The Drug Policy Alliance is working to end the punishment and surveillance that harm families and communities.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Studies/100_Years_of_Drug_Control.pdf
Illicit drug use (mostly on an occasional basis) has been contained to around 5 percent of the adult population or 3.2% of the world's total population - a much lower preva-lence than less regulated drugs like alcohol and tobacco. Deaths due to drugs are limited to perhaps 200,000 a year which is one tenth of those killed by alcohol and twenty

https://drugpolicy.org/about/
The Drug Policy Alliance is a 501c3 non-profit organization. We depend entirely on private donations to fund our work to end the drug war and promote new drug policies grounded in evidence, health, equity, and human rights. Your support is crucial - thank you! We are the Drug Policy Alliance.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21733667/
Abstract. The goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest thinkers within the social sciences of the last 200 years, from Foucault all the way back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmGhiShBFBo
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday recommended loosening restrictions on marijuana, a historic shift in federal drug policy that could broaden acces

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0091450918811178
Additionally, how research informs policy poses particularly challenging systemic issues in the U.S. (Brownstein, 2013; Daniels & Thistlewaite, 2016; Gstrein, 2018; Stein & Daniels, 2017).Almost two decades ago, the U.S. National Research Council's (NRC) comprehensive report argued that the nation's data and research programs were "strikingly inadequate to support the full range of

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/us-drug-negotiations-plan-shifts-focus-for-rare-disease-programs
The rare disease community is pushing for changes in the Inflation Reduction Act's drug price-setting scheme as it leads more drugmakers and investors to reconsider development of drugs to treat small patient populations. ... Biden Drug Price Negotiation Policy Survives Key Legal Fight (2) March 1, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC . Medicare Drug Price

https://transformdrugs.org/timeline
Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) receives Royal Assent. On the 27th May, a year after it was presented as a Bill, the Misuse of Drugs Act receives Royal Assent. It enshrines in UK law the provisions of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and establishes the system of drug prohibition that persists to this day in the UK.

https://www.lastprisonerproject.org/hawaii-enacts-new-laws-that-provide-retroactive-relief-for-those-criminalized-during-the-war-on-drugs
Through advocacy, policy change, education, release, commutation, expungement and reentry, Last Prisoner Project nonprofit is committed to social justice, criminal justice, prison reform and ending mass incarceration and the unjust war on drugs, legalizing cannabis, and freeing every last cannabis prisoner.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/06/24/hhs-finalizes-rule-establishing-disincentives-health-care-providers-that-have-committed-information-blocking.html
CMS has modified its policy for this disincentive to clarify that if an individual eligible clinician is found to have committed information blocking and is referred to CMS, the disincentive under the MIPS Promoting Interoperability performance category will only apply to the individual, even if they report as part of a group.