Data gathered by World ... cause of drug deaths, as an estimated 74,702 people died in 2023 from overdose. Bryce Pardo, researcher at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, told Newsweek ...

In doing so, the two joined a growing number of jurisdictions around the world that had bucked the longstanding status quo of criminalization to address drug use. But both have now reversed course ...

The results undermine progressives’ assumptions. Only 26 percent of nonwhite respondents agreed (either strongly or weakly) that drug criminalization is racist, while over twice as many (56 percent) ...

Punitive drug control laws, policies and law enforcement practices have been shown to be among the largest obstacles to health care in many countries. Criminalization of drug use and harsh ...