This book publication, produced by the Open Society Foundation in 2009, examines the scale of the human rights impact on people who use drugs in the 10 years following the first UN General Assembly special session on drugs. The intersection of HIV and drug policy is an underlying theme throughout the text. Topics covered include:
- Police Abuse of Injection Drug Users in Indonesia
- Arbitrary Detention and Police Abuse of Drug Users in Cambodia
- Forced Drug Testing in China
- Drug Control Policies and HIV Prevention and Care Among Injection Drug Users in Imphal, India
- Effects of UN and Russian Influence on Drug Policy in Central Asia
- The Impacts of the Drug War in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Civil Society Reflections on 10 Years of Drug Control in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Twin Epidemics—Drug Use and HIV/AIDS in Pakistan
Citation: 'At what cost? HIV and human rights consequences of the global "war on drugs"', Open Society Institute (2009)