About This Initiative
The Open Society Global Drug Policy Program aims to broaden, diversify, and consolidate the network of like-minded organizations that are challenging the current state of international drug policy.

Senior Program Officer
The Senior Program Officer will be involved with grant-giving and report to the Program Director. This post is based in Budapest or London.

Communications Associate
The Office of Communications seeks an associate to assist in the design and implementation of the communications and outreach strategies of the Global Drug Policy program.

Cambodia's Alarming New Drug Law
Kathleen Kingsbury
July 20, 2011
blog BLOG  
Cambodia's new drug law has human rights groups concerned that the country's abusive practices toward drug users will intensify.

War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
June 2011
The Global Commission on Drug Policy, an Open Society grantee, released a report condemning the drug war as a failure and recommending major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime.

Poland Steps Toward Drug Policy Reform
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
May 26, 2011
blog BLOG  
Ahead of a visit from Barack Obama, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski has signed an amendment to his country's drug law.

International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009
video VIDEO  
Produced for the Open Society Institute, this video highlights some of the disastrous effects of drug policy in recent years and proposes solutions for a way forward.

From the Mountaintops
October 2010
This Open Society Foundations report examines drug policy change in Switzerland and its lessons for the rest of the world.

Time to Act: A Call for Comprehensive Responses to HIV in People Who Use Drugs
July 2010
This paper reviews identifies synergies between biomedical science, public health, and human rights to advocate for cost-effective and evidence-based interventions, including needle exchange, opioid substitution therapy, and expanded access to HIV treatment.

International Drug Policy Consortium: Five Policy Principles
January 2009
This publication documents the five principles for advocacy work that members of the International Drug Policy Consortium, an Open Society Institute grantee, have agreed to promote. Available in English, Chinese, Farsi, French, and Russian.

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