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Parallels with defective drugs policy

In an "unprecedented attack on global drugs policy", Michael Kazatchkine, head of the Global Fund to Fights Aids, TB and Malaria, says the use of illicit drugs must be decriminalised if efforts to halt the spread of Aids are to succeed (Observer). He denounces policy which treats addiction as a crime, and accuses govts of repressive measures that deny human rights and put public health needs last. He argues that govts should switch from a focus on criminal justice to a strategy of harm reduction. Followers of this blog will see parallels with roads policy. Somewhere I have written that life on the roads could be transformed if govts shifted their obsession with controlling human nature to a trust its unique potential for civilised interaction. It might have been here. NB to return here, use the Back arrow tab.

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