AidsMap
On this site you can find daily news on developments in the world of HIV. The site also includes completely searchable databases of HIV treatment and care, worldwide HIV organisation listings, and one of the most comprehensive ranges of patient information available on the web. |
Centre for Addictive Problems
CAP’s mission is to provide the highest quality, cost effective care to opiate dependent individuals, based upon addiction treatment research as well as clinical experience informed by practice. In the early 1990’s the mission expanded to include the outpatient medical treatment of alcohol abuse. |
Dora Weiner Foundation
The Dora Weiner Foundation aims to promote public knowledge of research in the study of chemical dependence and substance-related disorders and to advocate for the rights of patients being treated for dependence to drugs. The organisation’s project on stigma and methadone maintenance is particularly interesting and can be found here: http://www.doraweiner.org/stigma.html. |
Drug Policy Alliance
The Drug Policy Alliance’s mission is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug misuse and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies. |
Drugwar.com
This site is an information resource which includes a discussion forum and newslist. |
Geopium
Geopium.org is a website offering information and publications on the geopolitics of illicit drugs in Asia.
Its objective is to broadcast geographic information by posting documentary resources useful for researchers in the humanities, and the social and political sciences. The main issues addressed on Geopium relate to the production, traffic and consumption of opiates (opium, morphine, heroin) in the ‘Golden Triangle’ (Burma, Laos, Thailand) and ‘Golden Crescent’ (Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan) areas. |
Harm Reduction Coalition
The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) is committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing. HRC fosters alternative models to conventional health and human services and drug treatment; challenges traditional client/provider relationships; and provides resources, educational materials, and support to health professionals and drug users in their communities to address drug-related harm. |
North American Opiate Medication Initiative
The North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) is a research project to determine whether the closely supervised provision of injectable, pharmaceutical-grade heroin (in combination with oral methadone) is more effective than methadone therapy alone in recruiting, retaining and benefiting chronic, opiate-dependent, injection drug users (IDUs) who are resistant to current standard treatment options. |
The Beckley Foundation
The Beckley Foundation is a charitable trust that promotes the investigation of consciousness and its modulation from a multidisciplinary perspective. It supports world-class research into the science, health, politics and history of practices used to alter consciousness, ranging from meditation to the use of psychoactive substances. |
The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) is a network of scholars elaborating the law, policy and ethics of freedom of thought. Its mission is to develop public polices that will preserve and enhance freedom of thought into the 21st Century. It focuses on the relationship between drug use and human rights and freedom. |
The Centre for Drug Research
The Centre for Drug research closed in 2004 but its website still boasts many publications on drug use, drug policy, and the politics of knowledge construction about drugs and their history. Cedro’s director, Peter Cohen, has a webpage dedicated to his articles, which can be found at:
http://www.hereinstead.com/sys-tmpl/peterspage/ |
The Senlis Council Drug Policy Advisory Forum
The Senlis Council, established in 2002, is an international drug policy think tank which gathers expertise and facilitates new initiatives on global drug policy. The Council convenes politicians, high profile academics, independent experts and Non Governmental Organisations. It aims to work as the dialogue partner with senior policy-makers at both the national and international level in order to foster high-level exchanges and new ideas on integrated drug policies. |
The Trimbos Institute
The Trimbos Institute is the Netherlands’ national knowledge institute for mental health care, addiction care and social work. Its aim is to create knowledge on mental health and apply it to mental health care, addiction care and social work policy and practice. |
Transform Drug Policy Foundation
Transform Drug Policy Foundation is a charitable think tank that seeks to draw public attention to the fact that drug prohibition itself is the major cause of drug-related harm to individuals, communities and nations, and should be replaced by effective, just and humane government control and regulation. |
Transnational Institute: Drugs and Democracy
A drugs and democracy project concentrating on South American policies, past and proposed, and why the present policies are failing. |
Washington Office on Latin America
The Washington Office on Latin America promotes human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
