Today in Vienna marks the opening of a United Nations meeting that will review the last decade of UN drug policy and set policy for the next one--and, by implication, the course for the global response to the HIV epidemic.

As an advocate who works in the United...

A couple of years ago I attended a conference presentation by Corey Davis from Prevention Point Philadelphia. According to Corey, most syringe exchange programs in the U.S. don't have established relations with their local police departments. I found this a dubious point as programs in New York City,...

On Friday January 16, Imani Woods called to let me know that George Kenney had died at 12:30 pm. He had been ill with multiple health problems for a number of years and I, like many, had fallen out of contact with him. George was an early proponent for working...

Cross-posted from AlterNet:

Everyone knows that Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States last Tuesday, Jan. 20. As an advocate for sound, sane drug policy and HIV prevention, I hope that his inauguration will mark a change to an administration that chooses science over dogma.

Cross-posted from AlterNet's Drug Reporter

What if we had a mechanism that stopped the spread of HIV that experts had speculated would work even before the cause of AIDS had been identified and that subsequent scientific enquiry confirmed was effective? We do, that mechanism is syringe exchange.

What if...

At last, my final day in Vienna attending the United Nations' "Technical Seminar on Drug Addiction Prevention and Treatment: From Research to Practice" conference. (To read my scene-setting preamble from earlier this week, click here. Day 1 is here and day 2 is here.) It's a wind-down...

Cross posted from from the Stop the Drug War Chronicle Blog (12/18/08)

Ah, the Clockwork Orange brainwashing day. (For my preamble, click here. For coverage of day 1, click here.) There's nothing in my cranium. I've blocked it all out. A windowless auditorium and a set of...

More than 200 people from around the globe have shown up for the first day of this drug treatment meeting at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna. (If you're just tuning it, it may be helpful to read my first post, where I...

What's on in Vienna this week? Oh it's "The Technical Seminar on Drug Addiction Prevention and Treatment: From Research to Practice."

What on earth can be the reason for holding a drug treatment meeting at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna right before the...