Items tagged with heroin
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| Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? [23.10.2022] | Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a wa ... |
| ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities [20.10.2022] | The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities. Laws passed in the ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| Ottawa must act fast on safe drug supply as tainted-drug deaths continue daily: advocates [11.10.2021] | Downtown Eastside residents at high risk of overdose now have Vancouver’s support to get untainted drugs, but the federal government has the final sa ... |
| Cocaine, heroin and meth buyers' club gets Vancouver's approval to secure a safe supply [07.10.2021] | The City of Vancouver voted unanimously in favour of supporting a peer-led program that would help get a safe supply of drugs to individuals at high ... |
| We should hand out free heroin to drug users [26.08.2021] | Let’s give out heroin, for free, to anyone who wants it. This is not a provocation meant to make you gasp or to elicit angry clicks—rather, it’s a pr ... |
| Drug use steady despite lockdowns: EU agency [09.06.2021] | The severe restrictions on movement and activities during the coronavirus pandemic had little effect on Europeans' appetite for illegal drugs in 2020 ... |
| Free heroin could help Scotland shake off unwanted drugs death title [16.05.2021] | The professor behind Dutch addicts getting taxpayer-funded heroin has called on the Scottish Government to do the same in its fight against drugs. Re ... |
| The forgotten history of European drug-dealer activism [30.04.2021] | Today, the contributions of drug suppliers towards harm reduction efforts remain mostly neglected by history, although some within the grassroots end ... |
| Calls backed for European-style shooting galleries where addicts can take their own heroin [16.03.2021] | European-style drug rooms where users can take illicit substances have been backed by a Teesside panel. Councillors have spent more than a year exami ... |
| Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use [19.02.2021] | Norway's government proposed a bill aimed at decriminalising the possession and use of small amounts of narcotics, saying users should be offered tre ... |
| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| The incredible story of Zürich’s journey to harm reduction [09.09.2020] | It was in 1992 that the Platzspitz city park – right by Zürich train station and internationally nicknamed “Needle Park” – was cleared out by the pol ... |
| Why the Drug User Liberation Front gave out free, checked drugs in Vancouver [11.08.2020] | The Drug User Liberation Front, a Vancouver-based activist group, made a serious statement on June 23. During a protest in the city’s Downtown Eastsi ... |
| Drug users call for safe supply of heroin and cocaine, and show how it’s done [23.06.2020] | A new drug-user advocacy group in Vancouver says the safe supply of prescription narcotics must include pharmaceutical-grade heroin and cocaine and — ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| Is Southeast Asia's drug trade too big to control? [19.05.2020] | Police in Myanmar this week announced the largest synthetic drug seizure on record in Southeast Asia. Between February and April, security forces sei ... |
| Portugal’s answer to the heroin crisis [22.04.2020] | After years of mounting overdoses, HIV infections and rampant heroin addiction, Portugal opted in 2001 for a daring experiment: The country decrimina ... |
| Coronavirus triggers UK shortage of illicit drugs [12.04.2020] | Drug treatment experts have raised concerns a drop in the supply of illicit drugs to the UK triggered by the lockdown is leading to an increase in th ... |
| Estonia won its war on fentanyl, then things got worse [26.03.2020] | For nearly two decades Estonia battled a fentanyl epidemic so severe its overdose death rate was almost six times the European average. Once fentanyl ... |
| Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy [27.01.2020] | In Bristol, there were 49 drug related deaths in 2017/18 – the highest ever recorded. There are almost 5,000 heroin and crack users in the city and, ... |
| Opioids, pot and criminal justice reform helped undermine this decade's War on Drugs [29.12.2019] | This much we know: Americans like to do drugs. That might explain why a prescient headline in the satirical publication The Onion stands as one of th ... |
| Cannabis sales in EU raise $13 billion for crime gangs [26.11.2019] | Europeans spent at least 11.6 billion euros (£9.9 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in ... |
| Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it [29.09.2019] | A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, ... |
| Drugs expert barred from policy panel after criticising Home Office [11.06.2019] | A government minister vetoed the appointment of an expert to a public body after vetting found she had criticised the Home Office and called for drug ... |
| California bill to create ‘safe injection sites’ in San Francisco clears Assembly [23.05.2019] | A bill that would allow San Francisco city officials to open facilities where people can inject drugs without legal consequences cleared the state As ... |
| Without safe injection sites, more opioid users will die [23.05.2019] | Ontario is undoubtedly in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. From January to September 2018, an incredible 1,031 Ontarians died of an overdose. ... |
| Study finds CBD effective in treating heroin addiction [21.05.2019] | Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive ingredient in hemp and marijuana, could treat opioid addiction, a new study says. Given to patients with heroin add ... |
| Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses [23.02.2019] | Drugs now kill about 70,000 Americans every year—more than car crashes or guns (both 39,000), more than AIDS did at the height of its epidemic (42,00 ... |
| Sell regulated heroin to drug users to reduce overdose deaths: B.C. group [21.02.2019] | Heroin addicts should be granted access to a clean supply of the drug provided through “compassion clubs” similar to those that provide medical marij ... |
| Why Europe has dodged America's fentanyl crisis [07.02.2019] | A perfect storm of conditions over the last decade led to the current fentanyl epidemic in the US. It began with rising social deprivation and excess ... |
| The great fentanyl myth, and how we’re killing drug users [04.01.2019] | Our moral failure flows from the fact that we know what to do, but accept a policy that is killing our fellow citizens. The Vancouver Police Departme ... |
| How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
| Barcelona police launch massive crackdown on narcopisos [29.10.2018] | Hundreds of police backed by a helicopter raided dozens of apartments in central Barcelona used for selling and consuming heroin and other drugs, mak ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
| Should Punjab government legalise opium? Here's what leaders have to say [03.10.2018] | Consuming opium and poppy husk is not considered bad in Punjab. It is called 'kali nagini ' (black female serpent) and people from all walks of life ... |
| Andhra Pradesh's north eastern hilly belt fast becoming cannabis capital of India [02.09.2018] | Paderu is the main town in the area and the cannabis produced in the entire belt is popularly called Paderu ganja. This region is quickly becoming th ... |
| The Chitta economy: How the business of drugs works in Punjab [01.09.2018] | In the last few years, while the business and economy in the state kept sliding, the drugs trade flourished. With addicts turning peddlers and severa ... |
| Norway to give free heroin to 400 addicts: report [09.08.2018] | Health Minister Bent Høie has asked the Norwegian Directorate of Health to draw up a list of which addicts were most suitable to receive so-called "h ... |
| Dutch cut overdose deaths by dispensing pure heroin [15.07.2018] | Public-health experts in the Netherlands say free distribution of government-funded heroin is one reason that drug-related deaths are far less common ... |
| More drugs, more deaths, more damage... [26.06.2018] | In 2012, Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, referred to current drug control efforts as something akin to riding a stationary bicycle. "One kee ... |
| Report highlights continued rise in drug-related crime in Germany [23.05.2018] | The head of the BKA, Holger Münch, suggested during a joint press conference with Germany's Commissioner on Drugs, Marlene Mortler, that decriminaliz ... |
| Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th ... |
| U.S. has been quietly helping Mexico with new, high-tech ways to fight opium [15.04.2018] | In the past few opiate-soaked years, U.S. officials say, nearly all the heroin coursing through American cities has come from one place: Mexico. “The ... |
| Narcopisos: Spain's 'drug flats' give focus for fight against heroin threat [12.03.2018] | Empty properties in El Raval (Barcelona), many of which are owned by banks and investment funds following Spain’s property crash, serve as distributi ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| Philadelphia aims to become first US city to legalize safe injection sites [06.02.2018] | Philadelphia officials are pushing an effort to make the city the first in the U.S. to allow drug users to shoot up at a medically supervised facilit ... |
| The secret housing program giving safe drugs to addicted residents [05.02.2018] | Canada’s opioid crisis has hit British Columbia harder than anywhere else. Last year, 1,422 people across the province died after taking drugs accoun ... |
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