ATS, Mild stimulants & NPS

Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms

2019-02-18T11:01:40+00:00

Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with individuals who use methamphetamine, this briefin ...

Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the Global Village

2016-01-25T14:43:40+00:00

Indigenous peoples in the Amazon have used ayahuasca for centuries as a remedy for physical and psychological health, and to ensure the life and wellbeing of their communities. In the past two decade ...

Time for a Wake-up Call

2014-12-19T09:48:47+00:00

The chemically-based frame of reference adopted by the UN Single Convention is mistaken in the culturally loaded and falsely “scientific” manner in which it was applied to different plants. With the ...

European policy on khat

2014-11-19T13:13:39+00:00

The UK and the Netherlands commissioned distinguished scholars and experts to study the social and clinical harms of khat. These experts argued that any harms associated with khat did not require a c ...

Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs

2013-02-26T13:28:20+00:00

New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and immediate action is generally not possible. Several Eu ...

Khat: A review of its potential harms to the individual and communities in the UK

2013-01-23T16:43:02+00:00

On the basis of the available evidence, the overwhelming majority of Council members consider that khat should not be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. In summary the reason for this is ...

Towards a Safer Drug Policy

2013-01-14T12:01:11+00:00

For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’) during the past fifteen years or so ha ...

New Psychoactive Substances

2012-07-03T08:34:27+00:00

Addressing the rapid escalation in consumption of new psychoactive substances among young people around the world, we have produced a report outlining what the main government responses to this new p ...

Chewing over Khat prohibition

2012-01-10T16:43:31+00:00

In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is first of all a plant-based substance that undergoes ...

Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs

2012-01-24T13:52:33+00:00

A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging onto the market. Of the various types of ‘Legal highs ...

'Legal highs'

2011-10-21T10:18:27+00:00

This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances of diverse origin, effect and risk profile (commonl ...

Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction

2011-11-04T14:12:41+00:00

Little is known about the methamphetamine market in the region, but there are strong indications that the situation is deteriorating with substances becoming stronger, methods of use more harmful and ...

Khat use in Europe

2011-10-21T14:30:07+00:00

Khat leaves are cultivated in the highlands of the Horn of Africa, Southern Arabia and along the East African coast. In many countries, chewing khat is an age-old tradition. More recently, the mass m ...

Taking Drugs Seriously

2011-05-17T10:07:47+00:00

Since first coming to public prominence at the end of 2009, legal highs have posed a major challenge to existing legal and legislative structures designed to deal with drugs. With the market in manuf ...

Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs

2011-10-21T12:57:05+00:00

This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of popularity and of harmfulness within a wider project bein ...

Kratom in Thailand

2011-05-02T12:58:29+00:00

In early 2010, the Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) developed a policy proposal to review different aspects of the criminal justice process in relation to drug cases. The possibility ...

Lifting the ban on coca chewing

2011-03-18T14:19:05+00:00

January 31 marked the close of the 18-month period during which countries could submit objections to Bolivia’s proposal to remove from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs the obligation to a ...

East African discourses on khat and sex

2012-01-05T17:22:01+00:00

The study aims to review and analyse the varied East African discourses on the effects of khat use on libido, fertility, transmission of HIV, prostitution and rape. Khat is associated, by consumers a ...

A good chew or good riddance

2012-01-05T16:23:40+00:00

The article reviews the status of khat, the most recent plant based psychoactive substance to reach a global market, and considers policy making processes in general and the framework of drug control ...

Khat use and monitoring drug use in Europe

2011-10-21T11:45:35+00:00

The aim of the study was to review the information available on the use of khat (Catha edulis) in the EU, and to assess the future use of this drug and related substances. Khat use sits awkwardly wit ...