Ten years after the 2016 UNGASS on drugs, the global community faces a critical moment to reflect on progress and remaining challenges. Commissioners @HelenClarkNZ and @JuanManSantos examine what has changed—and what must come next to advance more effective, evidence-based drug policies. 🔗 Read more: globalcommissionondrugs.org/… #UNGASS2016 #DrugPolicy #GlobalHealth

🚨 Reflections from the powerful session on “Navigating the Synthetic Drug Challenges” led by Steve Rolles and Dr. Caroline Copeland (UK): We are entering a new and dangerous era in global drug policy. What we heard today confirms the urgency. 👇 Here are two key takeaways from the discussion: Tweet 1 A new drug crisis is coming — faster, deadlier, and harder to stop. Forget heroin. Synthetic opioids like nitazenes are up to 500x more potent than fentanyl, which is itself 50x stronger than heroin. They’re cheap, easy to make, and impossible to control. This is a public health timebomb. Tweet 2 💡 Repression won’t solve the synthetic drug crisis. Cartels now need just a greeting card’s worth of powder to ship thousands of lethal doses. We must invest in: ✅ Regulated safer supply ✅ Drug checking & naloxone ✅ Education ✅ Decriminalization The time to act is now. #SyntheticDrugs #PublicHealth #DrugReform @SteveTransform @HelenClarkNZ @Kazatchkine @richardbranson @ProfAdeeba @ElBaradei @MichelSidibe @nickclegg @ExRelator_ONU @Oolusegun_obj @GPapandreou @JuanManSantos @FHC @RicardoLagos @JoseRamosHorta1

Santos says the problem is not so much drug use per se but the organised crime groups he fought as president - that are a direct result of prohibition. It empowers OCGs and makes public health problems as well 4/

Arbour notes that if the 64milion identified by UNODC data as having an Substance Use Disorder - only 8% have access to drug treatment and health services. 'That should be our calling' on health provision (Not wasting money on failed enforcement) 17/

Incredibly proud to be a member of this "idealistic but realistic" group @globalcdp. "We will keep fighting until the world has a rational, humane drug policy". Ernesto Zedillo. Former President of Mexico at a Chatham House discussion- Global drug policy / How to win the war.

1/2 Every year, mosquito-borne diseases affect up to 700M people globally. We are working to change this. WMP is teaming up with Debug by Alphabet to explore automated releases of #Wolbachia mosquitoes.

This is abt more than just ending an epidemic. It's abt the kind of wrld we want to live in. A wrld where no one is criminalized for who they are. A wrld where no one is denied healthcare because of their identity. A wrld where every life is valued equally. -@ProfAdeeba #HRC58

🔴 NOW at #HRC58 Panel on HIV response and leaving no one behind: ·@NadaNashif, @UNHumanRights ·@SteglingC, @UNAIDS ·@ProfAdeeba, @WHO Science Council ·@vuyisekadubula, @GlobalFund ·@EriKaCa1075, Global Action for Trans Equality ·@floriako, @gnpplus 📺⤵️webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1h/k1…

Great discussions with @melisa_idris on the futility and the harms of the current war on drugs from the lens of former undercover cop with @wudzee0 @yayasanaidsMY @globalcdp @IDPCnet

Good morning from the final day of #ICID2024, where Prof Alison Holmes and @ProfAdeeba are kicking off the day by discussing their life and times in global health in an inspiring “meet the expert session” #AMR #HIV @ISID_org

What do #humanrights and health experts have in common? A conclusion that the #warondrugs has failed and #harmreduction is the answer. See more from @UNHumanRights in bit.ly/3OF5QFX and @ProfAdeeba in this week's Asia-Pacific News Digest: bit.ly/3VpDe7p

"The war on drugs has been a war on people who use drugs but not on people who prey on them." - Louise Arbour, former @UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaking at @globalcdp event "Beyond Punishment" #harmreduction #treatment #drugpolicy #decriminalize #PublicHealth

The ‘War on Drugs’ destroyed lives and damaged communities. Criminalisation and prohibition have failed to reduce drug use and deter drug-related crimes. We need new approaches prioritising health, dignity and inclusion, guided by the Int.Guidelines onHuman Rights & Drug Policy.

On this #WorldAidsDay2024, @ProfAdeeba reflects on #HIV treatment and the vital connection between human rights and public health. “Human rights belong to everyone, and upholding them is essential to enable us all to be healthy and to flourish.” lens.monash.edu/@medicine-he…

As #WorldAIDSDay approaches – over 40 years after HIV’s discovery – experts urge world leaders not to pull back @UNAIDS @Winnie_Byanyima @GlobalFund @PEPFAR @CAPRISAOfficial @iasociety @TheLancet @Sidaction @ProfSharonLewin @Kazatchkine @ProfAdeeba telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…

Would you look at that Vaccines preventing cancer! Amazing

CALLING ALL DOCTORS! 30,000 people evacuated and counting! Please spread the words! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

INVITATION: Join the launch of the #GCDP 2024 report, "Beyond Punishment: From Injustice to Reform" feat. Comm'rs Arbour (Canada), @GarciaSayan (Peru) & @AnandGroverRepo (India). Moderator: @Jacquithornton 📅 Dec 5 | 3 PM CET Registration: ow.ly/jAGx50UeLi6 #DrugPolicy