Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 21-33 | PDF Robin P. Love, Billie-Jo Hardy, Courtney Heffernan, Amber Heyd, Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Lori Sparling, Bonnie Healy, Janet Smylie, and Richard Long Abstract Indigenous rights to self-determination and data sovereignty support Indigenous-led data governance, which, when adequately resourced, can act as a catalyst for Indigenous-led strategic planning and decision-making in public health research and programming. Respecting Indigenous data sovereignty and governance requires time, resources,…
(Re)Claiming Health: The Human Rights of Young LGBTIQ+ Indigenous People in Australia
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 35-47 | PDF Linda Briskman, Corrinne T. Sullivan, Kim Spurway, John Leha, William Trewlynn, and Karen Soldatić Abstract The human rights of both LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous peoples are far from realized. When conjoined, intersecting identities reveal how racism and queer phobia affect well-being, negating the right to health and resulting in devastating impacts on people’s social, cultural, and emotional well-being. This paper documents the lived…
A Human Rights Framework for Advancing the Standard of Medical Care for Incarcerated People in the United States in the Time of COVID-19
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 59-75 | PDF Brendan Saloner, Gabriel B. Eber, Carolyn B. Sufrin, Chris Beyrer, and Leonard S. Rubenstein Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the lack of resources and oversight that hinders medical care for incarcerated people in the United States. The US Supreme Court has held that “deliberate indifference” to “serious medical needs” violates the Constitution. But this legal standard does not assure the consistent…
VIEWPOINT Not Enough Stick? Drug Detention and the Limits of United Nations Norm Setting
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 175-177 | PDF Daniel Wolfe and Roxanne Saucier A January 2022 report by UNAIDS and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is the first in years to gauge the state of detention in the name of drug treatment in Asia.[1] The report is also a sobering milestone: total numbers in drug detention centers remain essentially the same as 2012, when 12 United Nations…
VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE Compulsory Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation, Health, and Human Rights in Asia
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 203-215 | PDF Quinten Lataire, Karen Peters, and Claudia Stoicescu Participants APINUN ARAMRATTANA, assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and member of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Asia-Pacific Expert Advisory Group on Compulsory Facilities for People Who Use Drugs JUDY CHANG, executive director of the International Network of People Who…
EDITORIAL A Slow Paradigm Shift: Prioritizing Transparency, Community Empowerment, and Sustained Advocacy to End Compulsory Drug Treatment
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 129-134 | PDF Claudia Stoicescu, Karen Peters, and Quinten Lataire For the past two years, we, the editors of this special section, have worked in close collaboration in various ways to reenergize discussions at the international, regional, and national levels on the closure of compulsory drug detention facilities and the transition to rights-based approaches to drug treatment.[1] In August 2020, we convened the joint UNAIDS-UNODC…
Capacity-Building in Community-Based Drug Treatment Services
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 189-202 | PDF Michael J. Cole Abstract Globally, there are not enough services to meet the enormous demand for evidence-based community-based drug treatment. Further, the effectiveness of available services varies as much as the diversity of their treatment regimens. Capacity-building can help increase the scale and improve the quality of those interventions. Maximizing the impact of capacity-building requires a comprehensive and systematic approach considering three levels—the…
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The Right to Health as a Tool of Social Control: Compulsory Treatment Orders by Courts in Brazil
Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 159-169 | PDF Luciano Bottini Filho Abstract Brazilian citizens have a constitutional right to health. This right has also been a powerful instrument in the judicial enforcement of drug dependence treatment in Brazil. This study reviews a sample of decisions from the state of São Paulo and provides evidence that the right to health has been used to justify compulsory admission to treatment for people deemed…
Addressing Stigma is Not Enough
Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 111-114 | PDF Joseph J. Amon, Nina Sun, Alexandrina Iovita, Ralf Jurgens, and Joanne Csete Over the past two decades, considerable work has been done to theorize, understand, and quantify the impact of stigma and discrimination on health. Yet despite clear differences, researchers, practitioners, and donors have often designed programs, set goals, and defined indicators that fail to differentiate between the two, or that define…
PERSPECTIVE Emerging from COVID-19: A New, Rights-Based Relationship with the Nonhuman World?
Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 13-20 | PDF Mia Macdonald Abstract This essay argues that the global response to COVID-19 should lead to new thinking and action, and specifically, a new relationship with the nonhuman world that is centered on mutuality and respect, not commodification and exploitation. Such a response would acknowledge and embed concepts like ecological justice and One Welfare in policy and practice, particularly regarding the consequences of…