Items tagged with harm reduction
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| Drug policy in India [14.02.2015] | India’s response to drugs flows along an extraordinary spectrum – of tradition and modernity; of widespread availability and stringent enforcement; o ... |
| Federal government set to crack down on drug courts that fail addicts [04.02.2015] | The federal government is cracking down on drug courts that refuse to let opioid addicts access medical treatments such as Suboxone, said Michael Bot ... |
| Is São Paulo's drug treatment program working? [21.01.2015] | Authorities say crack use has dropped 80 percent in São Paulo's notorious "Crackland" district since the implementation of With Open Arms ("De Braços ... |
| UN: Nearly 100 drug users died in Crimea after Russia closed methadone program [20.01.2015] | The United Nations' AIDS envoy sounded the alarm over an impending health catastrophe in Russia's newly acquired Crimean Peninsula, where nearly 100 ... |
| First lesson for new inquiry into ice: we've lost the war on drugs [16.12.2014] | Five Labor and three Conservative governments adopted harm minimisation as Australia’s official national drug policy on 2 April 1985 and every Common ... |
| 'You will not be arrested for using drugs' [02.12.2014] | Authorities in the Netherlands are warning Amsterdam tourists about heroin masquerading as cocaine, which has already killed several people and sent ... |
| Controversial São Paulo project offers jobs to crack addicts in Cracolândia [28.10.2014] | On a mild winter morning in São Paulo, two dozen people pick up brooms and rubbish bins from a warehouse. They wear blue jumpsuits with a De Braços A ... |
| Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work [09.09.2014] | The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct nation ... |
| Former world leaders call for nations to decriminalize drug use and experiment with legalization [09.09.2014] | Drug use should be decriminalized and governments should experiment with drug legalization and regulation, a group of former world leaders argues in ... |
| IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [14.08.2014] | The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy land ... |
| It’s time to talk about MDMA [10.08.2014] | Another summer festival season, another slate of tragic overdoses and a few overwrought reactions about the need to ban electronic music parties. “Pa ... |
| Expert seminar: Global experiences with harm reduction for stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances [04.08.2014] | The Expert Seminar on the Global Experiences with Harm Reduction for Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), an initiative of the Transnati ... |
| Let's look again at Sweden's 'successful' drug policies [25.06.2014] | Sweden is often portrayed as a success story in relation to drugs policy, not least by its own diplomats on the international stage and by the UN. Bu ... |
| Decriminalize drug use and public health [27.05.2014] | Canada's war on drugs has caused serious harm, particularly for the nation's most vulnerable, according to a Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA ... |
| Global Experiences with Harm Reduction for Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances [14.05.2014] | The objective of this seminar is to compare the findings on innovative tools for the prevention of problematic cocaine use patterns, with experiences ... |
| Bouncing Back [30.04.2014] | TNI's indepth examination of the illegal drug market in the Golden Triangle, which has witnessed a doubling of opium production, growing prison popul ... |
| Crack cocaine is king in Brazil: What Sao Paulo is doing about it [25.04.2014] | São Paulo's Cracolândia has been here for 15 years. Its population hovered around 1,500. The city recently took over a collection of flophouses aroun ... |
| Cocaine: towards a self-regulation model [07.03.2014] | By taking cues from users’ self-regulation strategies, it is possible to design innovative operational models for drug services as well as drug polic ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| Expert seminar: "Innovative cocaine and multi drug abuse prevention" [19.06.2013] | The expert seminar “Innovative cocaine and poly drug abuse prevention programme”, organized by the Forum Droghe, took place in Florence, gathering ov ... |
| Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs [23.05.2013] | The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle dr ... |
| Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [04.05.2013] | Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. ... |
| The real driver behind most drug use is pleasure, not dependence [18.04.2013] | Harm minimisation, harm reduction, drug-related harm, drug overdose, addiction: these are the dominant narratives that are used when we talk about dr ... |
| Wider use of antidote could lower overdose deaths by nearly 50% [04.02.2013] | Around 15,000 people die each year by overdosing on opioid pain relievers such as Oxycontin, a rate that has more than tripled since 1990. The govern ... |
| Doctors say UK drug policy should focus more on health [15.01.2013] | Although illicit drug use has been declining in the UK, long-term problem drug use and drug-related deaths are not decreasing, says the British Medic ... |
| Portuguese drug policy shows that decriminalisation can work [09.12.2012] | The Home Affairs Select Committee in the United Kingdom report on drug policy draws on lessons from Portugal’s decriminalisation of drug possession a ... |
| Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [31.10.2012] | In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourh ... |
| Overdose kits to be distributed to drug users [04.10.2012] | From the beginning of next year, the government will launch a new initiative in the struggle against drug-related deaths. In collaboration with far-l ... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we ... |
| Crises and radical thinking on drug policy [16.08.2012] | It’s sad that drug policy reform must always be wrapped tragedy but alas – in the context of drugs – crisis has historically been the mother of inven ... |
| Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal's drug programme [13.08.2012] | Portugal's famously liberal drug policy has been held up as a model for other countries - Norway is considering adopting parts of it and countries as ... |
| AIDS 2012 – Time for courage if we are going to turn the tide [01.08.2012] | As a participant at last week’s 19th International HIV/AIDS Conference, I was reminded of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s and UNDP Administrato ... |
| “In Portugal, We Fight the Illness, Not the People Who Suffer from It” [30.07.2012] | Portugal’s anti-drug policies have been gaining international visibility since this country's 2001 decision to eliminate all criminal penalties for p ... |
| Czech Republic exemplifies smart and humane drug policy [02.07.2012] | There is nothing politically easier in most countries than scapegoating drugs and drug users as the source of all social problems. Politicians can ex ... |
| Global report claims war on drugs is driving spread of HIV [24.06.2012] | Canada must embrace a public health approach to drug addiction rather than treating it as a criminal justice issue in order to curb the spread of HIV ... |
| The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [24.06.2012] | The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consiste ... |
| Feds hike danger rating on ecstasy while health officers urge drug policy reform [23.06.2012] | Several top public health officials are proposing a rethinking of current illegal-drug policies they assert spurs on a global problem involving ecsta ... |
| Saying No to Costly Drug Laws [11.05.2012] | In the year 2000, as the president of Poland, I signed one of Europe’s most conservative laws on drug possession. Any amount of illicit substances a ... |
| Charities unite in opposition to government drugs policy [23.04.2012] | An alliance of influential charities has condemned a key government drugs strategy document, calling it an "ideological attack" on proven addiction t ... |
| New heroin-assisted treatment [31.03.2012] | The prescription of substitution drugs, such as methadone and buprenorphine, has become a mainstream, first-line treatment for opioid dependence, wit ... |
| Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs [28.03.2012] | The use of illegal drugs remains a serious threat to community health. However, despite the substantial social costs attributable to illegal drugs, a ... |
| Salvadoran leader: I wasn't involved in gang truce [27.03.2012] | President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador denied that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited ... |
| Commanding general confidence? [11.03.2012] | This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control ... |
| Policing drug sales: Cleaning up the ’hood [02.03.2012] | An approach known as drug-market intervention (DMI) was first used in High Point, North Carolina, in 2004 and since then has been tried in more than ... |
| Russia: Government shuts HIV-prevention group’s website [08.02.2012] | The Russian government’s anti-drugs agency has ordered the blocking of the website of a public health organization, the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, for ... |
| Needle Park remembered [02.02.2012] | The Platzspitz or “Needle Park” in Zürich was one of the world’s most notorious open drug scenes, attracting users from all over Europe. After its cl ... |
| Towards a smarter drugs policy [06.01.2012] | The loudest voices in US drug policy debates call either for enforcing prohibition with ever-increasing ferocity or for giving up altogether by letti ... |
| Prescribing Cannabis for Harm Reduction [05.01.2012] | Neuropathic pain affects between 5% and 10% of the US population and can be refractory to treatment. Opioids may be recommended as a second-line phar ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| Obama Drug Policy: Reforming the Criminal Justice System [02.12.2011] | The complexity and scale of our drug problem requires a nationwide effort to support smart drug policies that reduce drug use and its consequences. T ... |
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