Huumesodan tuloksiin kyllästytty monissa maissa

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http://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/a1469592299335

”Minulle on myyty ihan muuta kuin mitä olen luullut ostavani” – Tor-verkkoa hyödyntävä suomalaishanke ajaa muuntohuumeille testautuspalvelua

A-klinikkasäätiön uuden Muunto-hankkeen tarkoituksena on mahdollistaa muuntohuumeiden anonyymi testauttaminen ja luoda verkkoon avoin tietokanta liikkeellä olevista aineista.

Muuntohuume PMMA aiheutti suoraan tai välillisesti yhdeksän nuoren kuoleman Norjassa 2010–2011. He olivat luulleet ostaneensa ekstaasia, mutta ottivatkin amfetamiinin tavoin vaikuttavaa muuntohuumetta.

Vaikka muuntohuumeet yksin eivät ole viime vuosina olleet merkittäviä kuoleman aiheuttajia, niiden moninaisuus aiheuttaa terveysriskejä.

”Minullekin on joskus myyty jotakin ihan muuta kuin mitä olen luullut ostavani”, sanoo HS:n haastattelema 25-vuotias nainen, joka ei halua kertoa nimeään. Hän on käyttänyt muuntohuumeita seitsemän vuotta.

Muuntohuumeiden vaarojen ehkäisemiseksi Suomessa on nyt aloitettu poikkeuksellinen hanke. Koska huumeet ovat uudenlaisia, myös hankkeen keinot ovat uudenlaisia.

Muunto-hankkeen tavoitteena on perustaa netinkäyttäjän henkilöllisyyden salaavaa Tor-verkkoa hyödyntäen tietokanta liikkeellä olevista uusista psykoaktiivisista yhdisteistä. Lisäksi selvitetään, olisiko mahdollista perustaa muuntohuumeiden käyttäjille aineiden laboratoriotestauttamispalvelu. Sen avulla käyttäjillä olisi mahdollisuus saada tietoonsa, mitä heidän hankkimansa muuntohuumeet todellisuudessa sisältävät.

Muuntohuumeet ovat huumausaineiksi määriteltyjen aineiden kaltaisia aineita, joita ei kuitenkaan valvota huumausaineina.

Niiden määrä kasvaa tasaisesti. Viime vuoden lopulla Euroopan unionin huumeseurantakeskuksen tarkkailussa oli yhteensä 560 erilaista muuntohuumeiksi luokiteltavaa yhdistettä. Määrä kasvoi sadalla viime vuonna.

Idea Muunto-hankkeesta virisi Malmin korvaushoitoyksikössä Helsingissä.

”Henkilökunta ja vertaistukihenkilöt huomasivat, ettei heillä ollut tiedon puutteen vuoksi valmiuksia hoitaa muuntohuumeisiin liittyviä, ensiapua vaativia tapauksia. Myös muuntohuumeisiin liittyviä kyselyjä tuli paljon, mutta vastauksia oli vaikea antaa”, kertoo hankkeen koordinaattori Miina Kajos, joka on saanut neurobiologian ja sosionomin koulutuksen.

Keväästä asti toimineen hankkeen perusti A-klinikkasäätiö Raha-automaattiyhdistys RAY:n tuella. Sillä on rahoitus vuoteen 2018 asti.

Ohjausryhmässä on edustus esimerkiksi Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitokselta (THL), Suomen Punaiselta Ristiltä ja Humaania päihdepolitiikkaa -yhdistykseltä.

Kajos puhuu hankkeesta kieli keskellä suuta, sillä osa siihen liittyvistä kompastuskivistä on vielä ratkaisematta. Esimerkiksi:

Miten muuntohuumeiden käyttäjät voisivat tuoda käyttämiään aineita A-klinikkasäätiölle testattavaksi ilman, että säätiön työntekijöitä voitaisiin syyttää hallussapidosta?

Kuinka välttää se, että huumekauppiaat eivät hyödynnä palvelua, jolloin työntekijöitä voisi syyttää avunannosta rikokseen?

Toisaalta hankkeessa kerättyjä tietoja voisivat Kajoksen mukaan hyödyntää myös viranomaiset, kuten lääkealan turvallisuus- ja kehittämiskeskus Fimea, THL, tulli ja poliisi.

Yksi muuntohuumeisiin liittyvä keskeinen ongelma nimittäin on, ettei viranomaisillakaan ole niistä kovin paljon tietoa.

THL:n mukaan muuntohuumeet eivät ole syrjäyttäneet perinteisiä huumausaineita, mutta väestötason esiintymislukuja ei ole Suomessa saatavilla.

Hankkeen ytimessä on huumeita käyttävän ihmisen auttaminen. Taustalla on käytön haittoja vähentävä ideologia.

”Mahdollisuus testauttaa hankkimansa aine ei ole tapa osoittaa aine turvalliseksi, mutta se mahdollistaa riskien faktapohjaisen tarkastelun”, sanoo Henry Vistbacka Humaania päihdepolitiikkaa -yhdistyksestä.

Kajos ajattelee, että esimerkiksi alaikäisiltä on kohtuutonta olettaa, että he ymmärtäisivät kaikkien tekojensa seuraukset.

”Jos Muunto-hankkeen avulla saadaan estettyä yhdenkään nuoren päätyminen tehohoitoon, niin tavoite on saavutettu”, hän sanoo.

HS:n haastattelema huumeiden käyttäjä uskoo, että Muunto-hanke voisi pelastaa henkiä. Hän on kokeillut useita kymmeniä eri yhdisteitä.

Naisen ja toisen HS:n haastatteleman lähteen mukaan esimerkiksi LSD:tä ostamaan lähteneet ihmiset ovatkin saaneet Bromo-Dragonfly -nimistä ainetta, joka on vaikutuksiltaan paljon LSD:tä arvaamattomampi ja pitkäkestoisempi. Bromo-Dragonfly on yksi tunnetuimmista entisistä muuntohuumeista, joka on nykyään jo kriminalisoitu.

”Olen itse säästynyt pahimmalta”, nainen kertoo.

”Mutta ystäväni yritti kerran tilata melko tunnetusta muuntohuumeiden nettikaupasta erästä ainetta ja hän kuuli myöhemmin, että kaupan omistaja oli itse kuollut tähän aineeseen. Kauppias ei ollut onneksi ehtinyt postittaa ystäväni tilausta.”
Tavoitteena vähentää haittoja

Muunto-hankkeen taustalla on ideologia, joka pyrkii huumeiden käytön haittojen vähentämiseen.

Ydinajatus on, että kiellot, rajoitukset tai rangaistukset eivät lopeta ihmisten päihteiden käyttöä tai siihen liittyviä ongelmia. Ajatusta on sovellettu esimerkiksi Portugalissa, jossa huumeiden käyttö on dekriminalisoitu. Sen jälkeen yliannostuskuolemat ovat vähentyneet.

Muunto-hankkeen ohjausryhmässä on edustus myös Humaania päihdepolitiikkaa -yhdistykseltä, joka ajaa huumeiden käytön rangaistavuudesta luopumista myös Suomessa.

”Jokaisen huumeiden aiheuttamia ongelmia vastustavan on syytä kannattaa haittoja vähentävää politiikkaa, sillä sen on tutkitusti todettu vähentävän näitä ongelmia”, sanoo Henry Vistbacka järjestöstä.

”Toki voi unelmoida maailmasta, jossa kukaan ei käytä päihteitä, mutta se on epärealistinen lähtökohta.”

Vistbackan mukaan kuitenkin esimerkiksi jotkut kannabiksen laillistamisen puolestapuhujat suhtautuvat aineen riskeihin vähättelevästi, mikä ei auta heidän ajamaansa asiaa.

Vistbacka ja Muunto-hankkeen koordinaattori Miina Kajos toivovat, että huumeiden käyttäjät nähtäisiin muunakin kuin ö-luokan kansalaisina.

”Päihdepalvelut pyörivät Suomessa riippuvuuden ympärillä”, Kajos sanoo.

”Ainoat roolit, joita huumeiden käyttäjille julkisuudessa varataan, ovat ’katuja’, ’raitistunut’, ’uskoon tullut’ tai ’ulkopuolinen syrjäytynyt’. Iso osa huumeita käyttävistä on kuitenkin integroitunut yhteiskuntaan. Ylipäätään, kuten [A-klinikkasäätiön johtava ylilääkäri] Kaarlo Simojoki sanoo: ei meillä ole Suomessa huumeongelmaa, vaan alkoholiongelma. Mutta huumeiden käyttöön liitetään vahva negatiivinen leima, ja sen takia moni ei hae apua.”

Fakta
Muuntohuumeet kiertävät lainsäädännön

-Muuntohuumeet tunnetaan myös nimellä uudet psykoaktiiviset aineet tai tutkimuskemikaalit.

-Niitä ei valvota lainsäädännössä. Muuntohuume lakkaa olemasta muuntohuume, kun se otetaan huumausainelain piiriin.

-Aiemmin muuntohuumeita kutsuttiin myös design- tai designer-huumeiksi. Nimet viittaavat siihen, että niissä aineen rakennetta tai käyttötapaa on jollain tapaa muutettu verrattuna aikaisempaan.

-Muuntohuumeista löytyy samoja aineryhmiä kuin virallisestikin huumeiksi luokitelluista aineista, esimerkiksi opioideja ja kannabinoideja.

-Vuosina 2011–2013 yleisimmät myrkytyskuolemissa todetut muuntohuumeiden löydökset olivat alfa-PVP (27 tapausta) ja MDPV (18 tapausta). Kuudessa vainajassa todettiin kumpaakin.

-Lähde: Keskusrikospoliisi, Suomen Lääkärilehti 48/2015

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Sellasia rikoksia ihmisyyttä vastaan Filippiineillä.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... -crackdown

More than 700 people killed in Philippines drugs crackdown

Human rights groups call on UN to denounce killings of suspected users and dealers since Rodrigo Duterte won presidential election in May

More than 700 suspected drug users or dealers have been killed by police or vigilantes in the Philippines in less than three months, say human rights campaigners, who are calling on the UN to denounce the violence.

Human Rights Watch, Stop Aids and International HIV/Aids Alliance are among more than 300 civil society groups that have signed joint letters to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), calling on them to break their silence over the crackdown.

“We are calling on the UN drug control bodies to publicly condemn these atrocities in the Philippines. This senseless killing cannot be justified as a drug control measure,” said Ann Fordham, executive director of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), which coordinated the letter.

“Their silence is unacceptable, while people are being killed on the streets day after day.”

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, won an electoral landslide in May after pledging to fill funeral parlours with drug dealers. He told Filipinos on the day of his inauguration last month: “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.”

Since 10 May – the day Duterte was announced the winner of the presidential poll – at least 704 people have been killed because they were suspected to have been involved with drugs, according to monitoring by journalists at ABS CBN News, a Filipino news network.

One influential Philippine senator has called for an investigation into the killings. In a speech before the senate, Leila de Lima, a former justice minister, said: “We cannot wage the war against drugs with blood. We will only be trading drug addiction with another more malevolent kind of addiction. This is the compulsion for more killing.”

De Lima, who has also headed the Philippines’ national human rights body, said police were summarily killing even innocent people, using the anti-drugs campaign as an excuse.

A statement issued last week by the citizens’ council for human rights accused Duterte and his officials of abandoning due process and human rights in their zeal to fight the war on drugs. “Units of the Philippine national police, under the command of his close associate General Ronald “Bato” de la Rosa, have turned many low-income neighbourhoods in the country into free-fire zones,” it said.

“The bloody encounters taking place daily have polarised the country between those who support the president’s quick and dirty methods of dealing with drugs and crime, and those who regard them as illegal, immoral, and self-defeating.”

The killings appear to have been carried out by police, who attribute the violence to suspects who “resisted arrest and shot at police officers”, and vigilante groups emboldened by Duterte’s promises of impunity.

In one case last month, eight suspected “drug personalities”, including a woman, were shot dead by police in a pre-dawn raid in the town of Matalam, about 900km (559 miles) south of Manila. On the same day in Manila, police said they found a man lying dead with his head wrapped in packaging tape and his torso covered with a cardboard sign reading: “I Am A Pusher.”
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ennelyn Olaires, 26, cradles the body of her husband, Michael Siaron, who police said was killed on a street by a vigilante group in Pasay city, Metro Manila. The cardboard sign near his body reads: “Pusher Ako”, which translates to “I am a drug pusher.”

On another night in the capital, six people were killed by gunmen on motorcycles. One of the victims’ wives was photographed cradling his dead body in an image that has become emblematic of the Filipino drugs war.

Jennelyn Olaires, the wife of Michael Siaron whom police said was killed by a vigilante group, told Reuters her husband had not been a drug dealer but that he was addicted to drugs. She said the 29-year-old made money by riding a pedicab – a bicycle with a sidecar – and did odd jobs. He even voted for Duterte in the 9 May election.

“I don’t need the public’s sympathy. I don’t need the president to notice us,” Olaires said. “I know that he doesn’t like this kind of people. But for me, I just hope that they get the true offenders.”

The IDPC’s letters ask the UNODC and the INCB to call on Duterte to immediately end all his incitements to kill people suspected of dealing drugs and act to fulfil all international human rights obligations, including rights to life, health, due process and a fair trial.

Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said: “International drug control agencies need to make clear to Philippines’ president Roderigo Duterte that the surge in killings of suspected drug dealers and users is not acceptable ‘crime control’, but instead a government failure to protect people’s most fundamental human rights.

“President Duterte should understand that passive or active government complicity with those killings would contradict his pledge to respect human rights and uphold the rule of law.”

A spokesman for the INCB said that a response to the IDPC’s open letter would be considered over the next few days. The UNODC said that it had received the letter and that it would be reviewed.

The most widely abused drugs in the Philippines are methamphetamine hydrochloride, known locally as shabu, and cannabis, which can easily be grown in the country’s rural areas. In 2014, 89% of drug seizures involved shabu while 8.9% involved cannabis, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Before he was elected president, Duterte was a lawyer who earned a reputation as an authoritarian figure while he mayor of the southern city of Davao. His campaign pledges included the reintroduction of the death penalty by hanging, as well as offering bounties for the bodies of drug dealers.

During the campaign, Duterte said 100,000 people would die in his crackdown, with so many dead bodies dumped in Manila Bay that fish there would grow fat from feeding on them. After his election win, Duterte also launched a seemingly unprovoked attack against the UN.

“Fuck you UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage ... couldn’t even lift a finger in Africa [with the] butchering [of] the black people. Shut up all of you,” he said.

[Erikoistutkija Hauberi]

Länsi-Uudenmaan poliisi tiedotti perjantaina marjastaja löytäneen kannabiksen maastoviljelmän Kirkkonummella.

Samanlainen ilmoitus tuli poliisille myös Hangosta, missä marjastajan vinkkaamasta paikasta oli löytynyt useampi kannabiskasvi.

Poliisi on tiedotteen mukaan ottanut haltuunsa sekä Hangosta että Kirkkonummelta löydetyt kannabiskasvit.

Poliisi ohjeistaa ilmoittamaan ensisijaisesti hätänumeroon, mikäli maastosta löytyy kannabisviljelmiä.

Itse en oikein ymmärrä miksi luonnossa kasvava hamppu on hätätilanne.

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-2 ... 34255.html

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Sellasia rikoksia ihmisyyttä vastaan Filippiineillä.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... -crackdown

Tätähän kait nämä "saunan taakse ja nappi takaraivoon"-vauhkoajat sitten haluavat.

Vittu mitä touhua.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... rugs-trade

Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade

Philippine president fires police and military officers named in nationally televised speech on Sunday

The Philippine president has publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, lawmakers and military personnel to illegal drugs, revoked their gun licences and asked them to surrender for investigation.

Rodrigo Duterte promptly fired members of the military and police he named and ordered government security personnel to be withdrawn from politicians he identified in his nationally televised speech early Sunday.

Duterte’s latest move ratchets up his war against drugs, which has already left hundreds of suspected dealers dead and more than 4,400 arrested in a month since he took office. Nearly 600,000 people have surrendered to authorities.

Duterte says he will take full responsibility if any of those he named turn out to be innocent.

Human Rights Watch, Stop Aids and International HIV/Aids Alliance are among more than 300 civil society groups that have signed joint letters to the International Narcotics Control Board and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime , calling on them to break their silence over the crackdown.

“We are calling on the UN drug control bodies to publicly condemn these atrocities in the Philippines. This senseless killing cannot be justified as a drug control measure,” said Ann Fordham, executive director of the International Drug Policy Consortium, which coordinated the letter.

“Their silence is unacceptable, while people are being killed on the streets day after day.”

During his campaign leading up to this year’s election, Duterte said 100,000 people would die in his crackdown, with so many dead bodies dumped in Manila Bay that fish there would grow fat from feeding on them. After his election win Duterte also launched a seemingly unprovoked attack against the UN.

“Fuck you UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage ... couldn’t even lift a finger in Africa [with the] butchering [of] the black people. Shut up all of you,” he said.

Associated Press contributed to this report

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Tää jätkä pitää vaalilupauksista kyl esimerkillisesti kiinni.

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http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/a1471569579552

Meksikon poliisin epäillään tappaneen 22 siviiliä huumeratsiassa

Ihmisoikeusraportin mukaan siviilit lavastettiin rikollisiksi heidän kuoltuaan.

Meksikon ihmisoikeusasiamiehen mukaan maan poliisi teloitti mielivaltaisesti 22 siviiliä viime vuonna etsiessään huumeita.

Lisäksi Meksikon kansallisen ihmisoikeuskomission torstaina julkistetun raportin mukaan kahta pidätettyä kidutettiin.

Joukkomurha tapahtui toukokuussa 2015 Länsi-Meksikossa Michoacan osavaltiossa. Poliisi hyökkäsi farmille, jolla epäiltiin olevan huumerikoksiin syyllistyneitä henkilöitä.

Raportin mukaan poliisihelikopteri ampui 4 000 laukausta rakennuksiin, joissa epäillyt olivat. Kaikkiaan poliisioperaatiossa kuoli 43 ihmistä, joista yksi oli poliisi.

Ihmisoikeuskomission mukaan kuolleista 22 teloitettiin operaation yhteydessä ja heidät lavastettiin rikollisiksi asettamalla ruumiiden luokse aseita.

Osavaltion johtava turvallisuusviranomainen kiisti tuoreeltaan raportin tiedot joukkomurhasta.

Meksikon hallitus on aiemmin kertonut, että 42 ihmistä kuoli heidän hyökätessään poliisia vastaan ja että helikopteri ampui vain estääkseen hyökkäyksen.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... r-killings

Duterte says Philippines might leave UN over criticism of drug trafficker killings

President denies government responsibility after UN human rights experts urge Manila to stop extrajudicial executions and killings

The Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation and invite China and others to form a new one.

Two UN human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte won the presidency on a promise to wipe out drugs.

About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on 9 May.

Duterte on Friday denied that the government was responsible and in a middle-of-the-night news conference in his home town, Davao, said the deaths were not the work of the police and invited UN experts to investigate themselves.

The news conference was broadcast by local media and the full version was posted on Facebook by GMA news.

“I will prove to the world that you are a very stupid expert,” he said, urging them to count not just the number of drug-related deaths but also the innocent lives lost to drugs.

He then launched an attack on the United Nations and its members – including by inference Manila’s traditionally close ally, Washington – saying it could not fulfil its own mandate but was “worrying about the bones of criminals piling up”.

“I do not want to insult you. But maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,” he said. “Why do you have to listen to this stupid?”

Criticising the UN for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite China and African nations to form another global organisation.

“You now, United Nations, if you can say one bad thing about me, I can give you 10 [about you]. I tell you, you are an inutile. Because if you are really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and killing.”

Asked about the possible consequences of his comments, he said: “What is ... repercussions? I don’t give a shit to them.”

He said the UN should have acted according to protocol by sending someone such as a rapporteur to talk to him.

“You do not just go out and give a shitting statement against a country,” he said.

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Linkin takana myös kuvia kuoseista ja linnunpöntöstä.

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1472175697364

Tulli paljasti Suomen suurimman nettihuumekaupan – rikollisten epäillään lähettäneen ilmaiseksi lsd-lappuja mahdollisille asiakkaille

Kolmen suomalaisen henkilön epäillään myyneen netissä huumeita kahden miljoonan euron arvosta.

Tulli on paljastanut Silkkitie-sivustolla toimineen nettihuumekaupan organisaation. Tullin mukaan kyse on Suomen suurimmasta nettihuumekaupasta.

Kolmen suomalaisen epäillään järjestäneen vuonna 2014–2016 Suomeen Hollannista ja Saksasta yli 40 kiloa jauhemaisia huumausaineita, yli 40 000 ekstaasitablettia ja noin 30 000 lsd-lappua sekä erilaisia muuntohuumeita. Tulli epäilee kolmikon myyneen aineita netissä noin kahden miljoonan euron arvosta.

Yli 40 kilon jauhemaisten huumeiden joukossa oli muun muassa amfetamiinia, metamfetamiinia, heroiinia, kokaiinia, mdma-jauhetta, alfa-pvp:tä ja mdpv:tä.

Tulli pysäytti tutkintaan liittyen noin 15 kilon huumausainelastin salakuljetuksen. Sen katukauppa-arvo olisi tullin mukaan ollut noin 1,1 miljoonaa euroa.

Nettihuutokauppa toimi anonyymissä Tor-verkossa ja siihen kuului erillisiä alakauppoja. Tullin mukaan nettikauppaa markkinoitiin vuonna 2014 lähettämällä ilmaisia lsd-lappuja mahdollisille ostajille.

[demoni on kohta valmis]

En tiiä oliko jo jossain (ja oli jo jytkyttelyissä mutta sopinee tänne) mutta kieltämättä nyt pääsi Packalen ylläättään:

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-2 ... 49791.html'

Kansanedustaja Tom Packalén kertoi Huomenta Suomen haastattelussa kannattavansa kovien huumeiden sallimista.
Perussuomalaisten kansanedustaja Tom Packalén oli keskustelemassa huumerikollisuudesta Huomenta Suomessa maanantai-aamuna. Kasvavan huumeongelman ja rikosten ratkaisuksi voitaisiin hänen mukaansa myös Suomessa soveltaa Portugalin linjaa.

Portugali päätti 15 vuotta sitten dekriminalisoida huumeiden käytön, jolloin maanhallitus alkoi säännöstellä kovien huumeiden käyttöä. Näin hallitus pystyy hoitamaan paremmin käytöstä koituvia haittoja.

Packalénin mukaan vastaava malli saattaisi toimia myös Suomessa.

– Sinällään en kannata, mutta jollain tavalla kovat huumeet voisi mielestäni siirtää julkiseen jakeluun. Yhteiskunta tarjoaisi kovat huumeet rekisteröityneille käyttäjille. Se poistaisi pimeät markkinat, Packalén sanoi Huomenta Suomen haastattelussa.

Huumeiden dekriminalisointi vähentäisi poliisin huumeyksikössä työskennelleen Packalénin mukaan rikollisuutta ja vähentäisi käyttäjien määrää. Näin laittomien huumeiden määrä saataisiin laskettua marginaaliin.

– Uusille käyttäjille se tekisi vaikeaksi aloittaa päihteiden käyttämisen, koska huumeita ei olisi helposti tarjolla. Narkomaanit kävisivät piikittämässä jossain omassa laitoksessaan. Rekisteröidyt narkomaanit saisivat kela-korttiinsa merkinnän ja lääkäri tekisi heille annoksen.

Pietari Koskinen

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Mutta heti on kaikki lapset tunkemassa heroiiniä silmämuniinsa jos ei jatketa tällä erittäin toimimattomalla ja huonoksi havaitulla linjalla!

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https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... land-wales

Drug-related deaths hit record levels in England and Wales

Experts call for change to treatment as fatalities rise despite number of people taking illegal drugs reaching historical low

Drug-related deaths hit record levels in England and Wales last year, official figures have revealed, with experts saying the increasing purity of illegal substances may be behind the rise.

Deaths involving opiates, cocaine and amphetamines, including MDMA, have all reached peak levels, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, whose relevant records date back to 1993.

The rise in deaths comes despite the number of people taking illegal drugs being at a historical low, according to recent crime survey data, and has led to calls for an overhaul of the drug treatment system.

The ONS said the mortality rate from drug misuse was the highest ever recorded, at 43.8 deaths per million of the population. Overall, a record 3,674 drug poisoning deaths involving both legal and illegal substances were registered in 2015. Of these , 2,479, or two-thirds, involved illegal drugs only.

The ONS researcher Vanessa Fearn said: “Deaths involving heroin and morphine have more than doubled since 2012, partly driven by a rise in heroin purity and availability over the last three years.”

Heroin-related deaths have more than doubled since 2012, when there were 579 fatalities, compared with 1,201 in 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available.

Deaths attributed to cocaine abuse have risen for the fourth year in a row, reaching 5.6 deaths per million people in 2015, nearly three times higher than the 1.9 deaths per million recorded in 2011.

Amphetamine-related deaths increased slightly, from 151 in 2014, to 157 in 2015. This is a mortality rate of 2.7 deaths per million people, the highest since 1993.

An independent group of experts convened by Public Health England and the Local Government Association to address the rising trend in drugs deaths called for the drug treatment system to be changed.

In a report published to coincide with the latest statistics, it recommended a more coordinated approach to drug treatment to address health inequalities, improve access to physical and mental healthcare, and provide other support, including help with housing and employment.

Rosanna O’Connor, the director of drugs, alcohol and tobacco at Public Health England, said: “Drug use is the fourth most common cause of death for those aged 15-49 in England and we know that the majority of those dying from opiates have either never, or not recently, been in treatment.

“Reassuringly, overall drug use has declined and treatment services have helped many people to recover, but there is a need for an enhanced effort to ensure the most vulnerable can access treatment.”

But Release, a national drugs charity, said the rise in heroin-related deaths correlated with cuts to funding for local and national treatment services. It said it was seeing an increasing number of people forced to reduce opioid substitution therapy prescriptions, or who had had them removed altogether. These prescriptions, such as methadone, are commonly used to help heroin addicts reduce their reliance on black-market drugs, to try to get them to eventually kick their habits.

Release’s executive director, Niamh Eastwood, said: “Since 2010, we have seen a worrying implementation of abstinence-based treatment under the government’s ideologically driven ‘recovery’ agenda.

“This goes against all the evidence for best practice in drug treatment, and is contributing, we believe, to this shameful rise in deaths. Such a hostile environment means people simply don’t want to access treatment.”

Fearn, of the ONS, said age was also a factor in the record levels of drug deaths because heroin users were getting older and often had other conditions, such as lung disease and hepatitis, which made them more vulnerable.

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Tragic story of death-row maid caught up in Asia’s war on drugs

Mary Jane Veloso says she was duped into smuggling heroin into Indonesia as she fled an attempted rape in Dubai


Mary Jane Veloso being taken to the first of two unsuccessful appeals against her capital conviction.

She has become a cause célèbre in both the country of her detention and that of her birth. Condemned to death on drug-smuggling charges, she was temporarily reprieved hours before her execution, but still languishes on death row in an Indonesian prison. And last week the skies darkened again over Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipino maid whose plight has captured the imagination of two populations that know all about the vulnerability of migrant workers.

After the Philippines’ president, the newly installed Rodrigo Duterte, visited Jakarta, it was reported that he had given his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, the go-ahead to execute her. Duterte has begun a ferocious and bloody war on drugs in the Philippines. That change of political direction has, it seems, led to yet another twist in the tortured tale of a woman who lost control of her life from the moment she entered Indonesia in 2010, hoping, she has said, to take up a job in domestic service.

Amid public outrage in the Philippines, Widodo subsequently clarified that Duterte had said: “Please, go ahead with the process in line with the law in Indonesia,” without naming Veloso. Few of her supporters were reassured. “We demand an immediate explanation from President Duterte … duty-bound to defend the rights of Filipinos overseas, especially drug-trafficking victims like Mary Jane,” said Migrante International, a group that campaigns for the Veloso family.


Cesar and Celia Veloso, Mary Jane’s parents, at a rally in Manila before President Duterte’s visit to Indonesia.

Born to an impoverished family in the northern city of Cabanatuan, Veloso married at 17 but later separated from her husband. She moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2009 to earn money for her two young sons in the Philippines.

Veloso says that she had to flee Dubai after an attempted rape and was then duped into smuggling drugs into Indonesia. Her case has become the focus of sympathy in both the Philippines and Indonesia, where many families have loved ones working abroad, often in poor conditions with abusive employers. Before the original date set for her execution last April, more than 200,000 signatures from 127 countries were collected for a #SaveMaryJane petition.

Veloso says that a woman called Maria Kristina Sergio, the daughter of one of her godparents, told her to move to Indonesia for a maid’s job in 2010. In an account that Sergio disputes, Veloso says the woman gave her new clothes and a bag that she says she was unaware had 2.6kg (5.7lb) of heroin sewn into it. “We’re poor and I wanted to change our life, but I could never commit the crime they have accused me of,” Veloso wrote last year in a letter to the then president, Benigno Aquino.

Her legal team launched two appeals in Indonesia, one that argued she did not have a competent translator, and a second saying she was scammed. Both were rejected.

As her April 2015 execution date approached, protesters in the Philippines and Indonesia rallied to save her and hundreds of people held vigils outside the Indonesian embassy in Manila. Even world boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao made a public plea for her life.

Two days before Veloso’s execution date, her family was allowed a visit. She explained to her sons that she would not be coming home. Her youngest child, six-year-old Mark Darren, said he would try to think that “Mama is in heaven”.

Then Indonesia shot dead eight people, including two Australians, part of the Bali Nine heroin-smuggling ring, four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian. But not Veloso, although several newspapers in the Philippines reported she was dead. The hashtag “maryjanelives” trended on Twitter across the Philippines and Indonesia.

The reprieve was down to an unexpected turn of events in her homeland. Veloso’s alleged trafficker, Sergio, had handed herself in to police hours before the execution. And Aquino, invoking a regional treaty that compels nations to co-operate on transnational crime, asked Indonesia to keep Veloso alive. He said she was needed to testify in the case against Sergio and another man, now accused of trafficking, illegal recruitment and fraud.

Indonesia’s president insisted that the execution was merely postponed, but the campaign for clemency had new grounds for hope.

A year on, the accession of Duterte to the presidency has again changed the dynamics of Veloso’s case. Duterte’s first three months in office have been dominated by a bloody crackdown that has left 3,526 drug dealers and addicts dead, most of them in extrajudicial killings by vigilante groups, actions that were publicly encouraged by Duterte before he was elected.

Senator Leila de Lima, who has been leading a senate hearing into the killings and is one of the main domestic critics of Duterte, said that she was “sad and heartbroken that the president will throw away all our efforts to save a life just like that, when it is still in his power to request the holding off of the execution”. But it was no surprise, she added, that Veloso’s life might seem of no worth to an administration that had adopted judicial or extrajudicial executions as “government policy”.

Even Duterte has said that fighting for Veloso’s life would sit badly with his drugs crackdown. “It would have left a bad taste in the mouth to be talking about having a strong posture against drugs and here you are begging for something,” he told reporters, adding that he told Widodo he supported the death penalty in Indonesia. Capital punishment was outlawed in the Philippines in 2006.

Veloso’s legal team told the Observer it was very concerned. “Mary Jane is a victim of dire poverty, of lack of real opportunities for a decent job, of pernicious drug and human trafficking. The law may be the law, but it should not be blind or deaf to reality,” lawyer Edre Olalia wrote in an email. “As the leader of this nation and as the pater familias of all Filipinos, President Duterte is expected to rise to his bounden duty and fight for her, and fight hard as he does for all victims of this transnational infection.”

Widodo’s reported conversation with Duterte has reinvigorated public interest in Veloso’s case and the office of Indonesia’s attorney general said last week that she would not be killed in the next wave of executions. The judge in the case involving Sergio said that she would fly to Indonesia this month to get a deposition from Veloso in her prison cell. Veloso’s supporters believe that a trial can vindicate her, if it can prove she was used as a pawn.

“Winning the case will codify Mary Jane’s innocence and erase all doubts that she should be spared from execution,” said Garry Martinez, chair of Migrante International.

Ruperto Santos, a prominent Roman Catholic bishop in the Philippines, said that “conflicting reports regarding the actions of President Duterte” on the Veloso case were regrettable. “Let us continue to pray for her, that her life be spared.”

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Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all'

Philippine leader says there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he needs more time to deal with them


Filipino human rights advocates hold candles and placards during a candle light protest condemning recent extrajudicial killings in Manila, Philippines.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he “cannot kill them all”.

Some 3,000 people have been killed since Duterte won May elections in a landslide on a vow to kill tens of thousands of criminals in an unprecedented blitz to rid the country of illegal drugs in six months.

“I did not realise how severe and how serious the drug menace was in this republic until I became president,” Duterte, 71, told reporters late Sunday in his southern home city of Davao.

Launching his crackdown was like letting “a worm out of the can” he said, adding that he wanted “a little extension of maybe another six months” to try and finish the job.

“Even if I wanted to I cannot kill them all because the last report would be this thick,” he said, referring to a new police list of people including top officials suspected of being involved in the drugs trade.

Police say they have killed 1,105 drug suspects in the slightly more than two months since Duterte took office.

Another 2,035 have been murdered by unknown assailants, with human rights monitors saying these could be vigilantes, emboldened by Duterte’s repeated calls for the public to help him kill criminals.

The crackdown has drawn severe criticism from the United States, the European Union parliament and the United Nations over what they say are extrajudicial killings.

Duterte has rejected the criticism, calling US President Barack Obama a “son of a whore” and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a “fool”, and vowing to continue his campaign – which is proving hugely popular domestically and boosting his poll ratings.

Duterte promised on the campaign trial that 100,000 people would be killed during his crackdown and so many bodies would be dumped in Manila Bay that fish would grow fat from feeding on them.

Days after his election win, Duterte also offered security officials bounties for the bodies of drug dealers, and has repeatedly pledged to protect police from prosecution over the killings.

He argued that these robust measures are necessary to prevent the country becoming a “narco-state”.

Duterte was speaking at a news conference to announce the safe recovery of a Norwegian man, who had been held hostage for a year in the country’s south by Islamic militants, who had beheaded two Canadian men captured at the same time.