Global Drug Policy Index

Subject – Governance

Context – A ranking of countries on drug policies and implementation

Concept –

The inaugural Global Drug Policy Index, released by the Harm Reduction Consortium, ranks Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, the UK and Australia as the five leading countries on humane and health-driven drug policies.
The five lowest-ranking countries are Brazil, Uganda, Indonesia, Kenya, and Mexico.
India’s rank is 18 out of 30 countries.
It is a data-driven global analysis of drug policies and their implementation.
It is composed of 75 indicators running across five broad dimensions of drug policy:
- criminal justice,
- extreme responses,
- health and harm reduction,
- access to internationally controlled medicines, and
- development