Allan Clear: Real Change or Changing Rhetoric? Monitoring the Shift in US Drug Policy
Since President Obama's election, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has been making noises about a shift in approach and priorities towards addressing...
Allan Clear: Harm Reduction in the United States: Whose History? (Part 1)
In the fall of 2009, I was asked by an academic journal to contribute a 1,500 word editorial that outlined the history of harm reduction...
Allan Clear: Most Improved (Drug Policy) Player: The USA
One of the thematic threads holding together the 53rd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (the CND is the UN's global drug policy body)...
Allan Clear: Reforming drug treatment in the US: It’s two steps forward, one step back
Days at the 53rd annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting (the CND is the United Nations governing body on global drug policy) are like those...
Allan Clear: US drug policy at the UN. Is the glass becoming more than half full?
Here's the good news: From what I'm seeing here on the ground here at the 53rd annual UN global drug policy meeting in Vienna, the...
Allan Clear: Live from the 53rd annual UN drug policy meeting: Ready for the 21st century or still stuck on the War on Drugs?
On the harm reduction/drug policy circuit party trek, it's time for the annual United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drug (CND) meeting in Vienna. This "select...
