Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure
"This report is another nail in the coffin for the war on drugs," said Ann Fordham, the Executive Director of IDPC
Monday, October 22, 2018
The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which has called for a major rethinking of global drug policy. The report Taking stock: A decade of drug policy claims that UN efforts to eliminate the illegal drug market by 2019 through a "war on drugs" approach has had scant effect on global supply while having negative effects on health, human rights, security and development. Drug-related deaths have increased by 145% over the last decade, with more than 71,000 overdose deaths in the United States in 2017 alone. (See also: UN's 10-year plan to tackle world's drug problem has been ‘spectacular failure’ as production and consumption soar, report says)
