‘Treatment in Liberty’ Human Rights and Compulsory Detention for Drug Use

Abstract This is the first detailed examination of compulsory detention for ‘drug treatment’ through lens a rapidly evolving international legal framework. It estimated that as many half million people worldwide are detained purpose treatment’, held months or years at time without being charged criminally able to challenge legality their detention. therefore key issue sitting intersection human rights, drug policy and medical ethics. The article explores arbitrary involuntary committal on grounds within rights law, well historical-legal evolution ‘treatment’ term understood control law. assesses whether use dependency constitute reasonable limitation right liberty, concludes this type represents violation