UN Expert Calls for an End to the Failed US-Led Global "War on Drugs"

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Human rights advocates applauded Tlaleng Mofokeng\'s recommendations to adopt an approach focused on harm reduction.

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Mofokeng, a South African physician, noted that the drug war has “negatively affected the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of certain drugs used as medicines.” “For over six decades, this ill-conceived approach to public health has not only failed to reduce the use and supply of drugs, it has also resulted in widespread human rights violations, violence, mass incarceration, suffering, and abuse across the globe, affecting disproportionately people from historically marginalized communities,” said Guevara-Rosas. “This report powerfully highlights that another way is possible.

 

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