1. Blackwell JC, Erickson PG (eds): Illicit Drugs in Canada. Nelson Canada, Scarborough ON, 1988, p 131.

2. Mann JM, Gostin L, Gruskin S, Brennan T, Lazzarini Z, Fineberg HV: Health and human rights. Health and Human Rights 1994;1: 6-23 and Leary VA: The right to health in international human rights law. Health and Human Rights 1994; 1: 24-56.

3. Defining the boundaries between drug use, misuse, and abuse is difficult as well as controversial. Nevertheless, many terms are commonly used to describe the use and misuses of drugs, "substance abuse" being the most widely accepted one. However, in an effort to avoid any bias or imprecision in terminology, this Article uses the term "drug use" as a neutral term applicable to all substances, including tobacco, alcohol, and caffeine, regardless of their legal propriety, the consequences of their use, or whether such use may be considered abusive. See, for example, Byck R: Cocaine, marijuana, and the meanings of addiction. In (Hamowy R, ed) Dealing with Drugs. Consequences of Government Control. Toronto ON, DC Heath and Co., 1987, pp 221-245.

4. Among the few texts that address the issue of international human rights with regard to drug use are the following: Silvis J, Hendriks A, Gilmore N (eds): Drug Use and Human Rights in Europe. Report for the European Commission. Utrecht NL, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University, 1992; Husak DN: Drugs and Rights. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1992; Richards DAJ: Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law. An Essay on Human Rights and Overcriminalization. Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa NJ, 1982, pp 157-212; Richards DAJ: Drug use and rights of the person: a moral argument for decriminalization of certain forms of drug use. Rutgers L Rev 1981; 33: 607. Also, see the quote by Fluss SS infra note 180. In addition, the International Foundation' for Drug Policy and Human Rights, a foundation recently established to address this issue and located in Amsterdam, can be accessed via its internet home page ("Drug Text") at URL = http://www.drugtext.org, or via e-mail at