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Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [09-05-13] Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation o...
Cannabis to substitute crack [22-04-13] The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste (o...
Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [06-04-13] São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar districts...
UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [28-03-13] The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the hi...
Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [26-02-13] The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began a...
Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [15-01-13] The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ...
Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30-12-12] With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legal...
Ex-president slams Brazil's tough anti-drug bill [26-12-12] A bill calling for tougher sentences for drug possession and mandatory internment of addicts in Brazil has drawn fire from ex-president Fernando Henri...
Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24-10-12] Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers a...
Q&A: “Pacification of favelas not a real public policy yet” [18-09-12] The "pacification" of the favelas in this Brazilian city, aimed at driving out armed groups and fighting drug trafficking, has not yet becom...
Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio [18-08-12] Once crack was introduced about six years ago, Mandela and the surrounding complex of shantytowns became Rio's main outdoor drug market, a &quo...
Brazil Launches Campaign to Decriminalise Drug Use [12-07-12] A host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalise drug use in Brazil, as tens o...
A breakthrough in the making? [25-06-12] Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac...
Where Is Brazil in the Global Drug Debate? [13-04-12] At the upcoming Summit of the Americas, President Dilma has an unprecedented opportunity to contribute to building a new architecture for global dru...
‘Pacification’ of favelas not just a media circus [17-11-11] The "take-over" of Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, by heavily armed police and military units was seen by some as a media ...
Slum raids in Rio de Janeiro impress [14-11-11] The police blitzes in this Olympic city’s biggest slums are meant to show the world that Rio is winning the fight against violent drug gangs that ha...
From war on drugs to community policing in Rio [02-06-11] Four decades after Washington declared its "war on drugs" and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the B...
Police occupation hurts improved relations with favelas [01-12-10] Reports of human rights abuses committed during the police and military occupation of several favelas in this Brazilian city are jeopardising local re...
Saturation policing criminalises poverty, activists say [03-06-10] The policy of a saturation police presence in the favelas or shantytowns that are home to around 20 percent of the population of Rio de Jnaeiro is mer...
Drug Policy and the Courts: A Brazilian experience [01-08-09] This report is a personal response from the author on the issue of Drug Policy and The Courts. A year ago, in the author’s professional practice, he f...
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