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Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Ann Fordham Interviews Junior “Spirit” Cottle Junior “Spirit” Cottle is a political activist and president of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cannabis Revival…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Anna Tomasi and Ruby Rose Lawlor The idea of protection, and its consequences Protecting children has long been one of the most powerful justifications for international drug…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Damon Barrett and Julie Hannah Introduction In this contribution, we question the assumption that global drug control requires dedicated multilateral treaties. The newly…

Section: Children’s Right to Health Artin A. Mahdanian and Dainius Pūras Abstract In 2025, the US state of Illinois enacted a mandate for universal school-based mental health screening, marking a significant development in youth mental…

Omar Ouakkad and Abdelali Hamidine Abstract In General Comment 14, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights envisaged the use of indicators, national benchmarks, and a joint “scoping” exercise through which the…

PERSPECTIVE Michelle E. Anderson,* Sarah Emoto,* Sofia Gruskin, and Laura Ferguson Introduction In every country, population health is governed not only by health interventions but by a complicated array of laws and policies developed over…

VIEWPOINT Roxanne Saucier, Diederik Lohman, and Kasia Malinowska Companies accused of catalyzing the United States’ overdose crisis are paying nearly US$60 billion in settlements to jurisdictions across the country for “opioid abatement.”[1]…

Daumantas Stumbrys and Dainius Pūras Abstract Mental health is increasingly recognized as a human rights issue, yet little is known about how mental health is debated within political institutions, particularly in post-socialist societies. This…

Special Section: Health, Rights, and the Future of Global Drug Control Eric D. U. Gutierrez and Pedro Arenas  Introduction: Starting with the people who live from prohibited crops The 2029 global review of the international drug control…

Sofía Gutiérrez Pérez and Raúl Bermúdez Camarena Abstract Between 2019 and 2025, more than two-thirds of Mexican states decriminalized voluntary abortion, and in September 2023 the Supreme Court removed abortion from the Federal Penal Code. No…