The right to health and international drug control, compulsory treatment for drug dependence and access to controlled medicines 2010, para. 73
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The Special Rapporteur considers that there is a need in the long term to consider alternatives to the current drug control system. One such alternative model may be the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in which certain controlled medicines would be regulated in a manner similar to tobacco. The purpose of the Framework Convention is to reduce the social, environmental and public health harms of tobacco smoke through creation of a framework by which global tobacco use may be decreased continually. It represents a paradigm shift in developing a regulatory strategy to address addictive substances, which protects the rights of people who use and are dependent on drugs while minimizing associated harms. A new regulatory framework concerning drugs other than tobacco would require assessment of the scientific evidence of a drug's effects on the individual and the public, the public health and human rights effects of each controlled drug, and inclusion into the scheme would occur on a case-by-case basis.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Health
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2010
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Other
Reference
SR Health, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/255, para. 73.