Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, a public-health doctor, directs the Open Society Foundation's Drug Policy Program.
This year’s 68th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs opened a door for a conversation that could get the world to rethink how to deal with drugs. Member states passed a resolution on March 14, 2025, calling for an …
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This year’s meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna marked a significant shift in policy when it agreed to focus on drug use as a public health issue that required an approach of harm reduction. This …
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For decades the United States, the primary architect of international drug control policy, led the global fight against illicit drugs, exercising its influence through the Vienna-based Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a governing body that provides guidance to the United Nations …
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For the first time in almost 50 years, the International Narcotics Control Board, an independent body of the United Nations drug-control system, has included a thematic chapter on women and drugs in its 2016 annual report. This substantive inclusion of …
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