{"id":234,"date":"2014-03-18T23:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugpolicy.ca\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-03-01T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T23:18:47","slug":"treat-drug-use-as-a-public-health-issue-not-criminal-issue-say-un-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.drugpolicy.ca\/fr\/treat-drug-use-as-a-public-health-issue-not-criminal-issue-say-un-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Treat drug use as a public health issue, not criminal issue, say UN agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal activity and drug trafficking. Distressingly, those are dominant discussion points at this week\u2019s annual UN drug policy conference \u2013 the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).<\/p>\n<p>As a result, public health considerations have been somewhat sidelined, but not, thankfully, among UN agencies, where a number of key representatives called for the removal of criminal sanctions associated with drug use, and the realignment of drug use as a public health issue.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Canada, the federal government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/mackay-hints-at-loosening-of-marijuana-laws\/article17317503\/\" target=\"_blank\">considering changing Canada\u2019s marijuana laws<\/a>\u00a0to allow ticketing by police instead of arrest, but Justice Minister Peter MacKay has insisted that even if that\u2019s the case, \u201cCriminal Code offences would still be available to police\u2026. It\u2019s not decriminalization. It\u2019s not legalization.\u201d What\u2019s more, the move could be a step backwards if police begin issuing tickets, where in the past they might have turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, under the current regime, simple cannabis possession charges in Canada numbered <a href=\"\/?p=756\" target=\"_blank\">61,406, a rate of 178 per 100,000 people<\/a>\u00a0as recently as 2011. This represented a 16% increase of such incidents since 2001. In BC alone, the arrest and prosecution of personal marijuana use costs taxpayers <a href=\"http:\/\/sensiblebc.ca\/study\" target=\"_blank\">$10.5 million a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that criminalization framework with comments from UN agencies this week at the CND:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UN Deputy Secretary Jan Eliasson tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09_Q6Pvp3ZM&amp;noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\">set a positive tone early<\/a>\u00a0by emphasizing the \u201cpublic health imperative\u201d in addressing drug use, and called for a \u201ccomprehensive and open-minded exchange\u201d that included civil society input and that didn\u2019t shy away from \u201cdiscussing innovative ideas and perspectives.\u201d He concluded by stressing that it is not enough to say no to drugs, \u201cwe are also saying yes\u2026 to human rights.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gilberto Gerra, Chief of Drug Prevention and Health Branch for the UN\u2019s drug control agency (UNODC) insisted that criminal sanctions are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cndblog.org\/2014\/03\/3rd-informal-civil-society-hearing_3797.html\" target=\"_blank\">ineffective and counter-productive<\/a>\u00a0because they do nothing to address problematic drug use. He argued that drug policies should be based on health and not on punishment, and that nowhere do international drug conventions require that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cndblog.org\/2013\/03\/demand-reduction-round-table.html\" target=\"_blank\">personal use should be criminalized<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Two Scientific Working groups convened by the UNODC to advise the CND criticized criminal sanctions and implored delegates to base their policy decisions on science.The first \u2013 headed by Nora Volkow (Director of the United States National Institute on Drug Abuse) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/myconference.unov.org\/\/Documents\/Get\/9dd91b0b-1cfc-4d4f-9afa-0f4e13dca3de\" target=\"_blank\">insisted that<\/a> \u201csubstance use disorders should be treated as medical and public health issue rather than a criminal justice and\/or moral issue.\u201d Imprisonment does not equate with treatment, and the group discouraged the use of \u201ccriminal sanctions\u201d given that they \u201care not beneficial in addressing substance use disorders.\u201d<br \/>\nThe second group \u2013 headed by Michel Kazatchkine (UN Secretary General\u2019s Special Envoy on HIV\/AIDS for Eastern Europe and Central Asia) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rylkov-fond.org\/blog\/uncategorized\/kazatchkine-arresting-drug-users-increases-hiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">concluded that<\/a> \u201cwe need to stop incarceration of people who use drugs for minor drug related offenses.\u201d Its members highlighted the legal and regulatory impediments to implementing harm reduction initiatives and noted that the \u201ccriminalization of drug use, restrictive drug policies and aggressive law enforcement practices are key drivers of HIV and hepatitis C epidemics among people who inject drugs.\u201d Basically, people are dying because they are treated as criminals rather than patients.<\/li>\n<li>UNAIDS director Michel Sidibe echoed calls to understand drug use as a public health and human rights issue, stating: \u201cThe criminalization of millions of people for minor drug offences exacerbates vulnerability to HIV infection, and does little to protect society from the health and social harms caused by drug dependence.\u201d He added, \u201cWe must work towards transforming laws and law enforcement officials to become bridges to connect people who use drugs to life saving health services.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay\u2019s statement drew attention to \u201cthe intense focus of law enforcement against drug use\u201d which \u201chas resulted in large numbers of persons being arrested and held in prolonged periods of pre-trial detention for minor drug offences.\u201d She condemned the \u201cso-called \u2018treatment\u2019 in such centres\u201d which \u201cis frequently not based on individualized assessment and evidence-based medical practice, but rather in mass treatment with a focus on disciplinary-type interventions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These comments represent a striking scientific consensus on the harm\u00a0created by the criminalization\u00a0of drugs and\u00a0those who use them. Clearly the language of public health is beginning\u00a0to\u00a0inform\u00a0the deliberations at this forum. The real challenge\u00a0for countries to put teeth into these recommendations by implementing concrete and comprehensive public health approaches to\u00a0drug related harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal activity and drug trafficking. Distressingly, those are dominant discussion points at this week\u2019s annual UN drug policy conference \u2013 the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). As a result, public health considerations have been somewhat sidelined, but not, thankfully, among UN agencies, where a number of key representatives called for the removal of criminal sanctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-harm-reduction"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Treat drug use as a public health issue, not criminal issue, say UN agencies - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new.drugpolicy.ca\/fr\/treat-drug-use-as-a-public-health-issue-not-criminal-issue-say-un-agencies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Treat drug use as a public health issue, not criminal issue, say UN agencies - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Criminal activity and drug trafficking. 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