Authors
Mofokeng, Tlaleng, UN. Human Rights Council. Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health
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- Geneva : UN
Table of Contents
- Drug use, harm reduction and the right to health 1
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Tlaleng Mofokeng 1
- I. Introduction 2
- II. Methodology 3
- III. Legal framework 4
- State obligations 6
- IV. Criminalization, stigmatization and health 8
- V. Impact of drug laws and policies on persons from marginalized groups of the population 9
- VI. Prevention, treatment and control of diseases 11
- VII. Commercial determinants of health and the opioid crisis 11
- Access to controlled medicines 11
- VIII. Harm reduction policies for public health 12
- IX. Harm reduction policy tools 13
- X. Good practices 15
- XI. Conclusions and recommendations 17