Items tagged with drug consumption rooms

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America has lost the War on Drugs. Here’s what needs to happen next [22.02.2023] For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. Before long, ...
Drug deaths are rising and overdose prevention centres save lives, so why is the UK unwilling to introduce them? [19.12.2022] In late 2020, a converted van appeared in central Glasgow. Inside were clean needles, sterilising equipment, mirrors, “sharps bins” for the disposal ...
Scotland's drug deaths: Consumption room pilot on track despite warning over legal barriers [02.02.2022] The new chair of the SNP’s drug deaths taskforce is confident legal barriers to setting up drug consumption rooms can be overcome as he insisted the ...
‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential [31.12.2021] Fentanyl testing strips as well as the opioid-reversal drug naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) are becoming the sine qua non of the party scene, dis ...
D.A. Chesa Boudin joins critics of Breed’s Tenderloin crackdown to protest plan [20.12.2021] District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined other elected officials and activists to criticize Mayor London Breed’s plan to flood San Francisco’s Tenderloi ...
S.F. takes big step toward opening a supervised drug use site [14.12.2021] San Francisco could be one step closer to opening a supervised drug use site after the Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of property for tha ...
Overdose prevention centres will save lives, say UK senior doctors [12.12.2021] Drug addicts should be allowed to use illicit substances in “supervised injecting facilities” with medical staff on hand to ensure no one dies, healt ...
Supervised injection sites for drug users to open in New York City [30.11.2021] In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused by increasingly potent street drugs, New York City will authorize two supervised injection si ...
Safehouse takes its battle over a Philly supervised drug injection site to the U.S. Supreme Court [26.08.2021] Seven months after a federal appellate court delivered a major setback to plans to open the nation’s first supervised injection site in Philadelphia, ...
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 ...
A tale of two public health crises — science is being used to stem coronavirus but not opioid deaths [13.03.2021] As one public health emergency sees policymakers around the world turn to the best available science to stem its tide, another deadly crisis rages on ...
PHE accused of toning down positive report on drug centres [05.03.2021] Public Health England has been accused of watering down a briefing on the life-saving merits of overdose prevention centres (OPCs) after a paper was ...
As BC’s overdose crisis deepens, Province defends efforts [02.03.2021] At least 165 more British Columbians died of illicit drug overdoses in the first month of 2021, more than double the number of deaths recorded last J ...
2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far [15.01.2021] San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released by the Office of the Chief Medi ...
Appeals Court overturns ruling that legalized SCS; Safehouse fights on [13.01.2021] A three-judge panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals voted to overturn a Philadelphia District Court’s prior ruling that effectively legalized ...
CDC and NIDA will finally study potential of safe consumption sites [07.01.2021] For the first time ever, Congress has weighed in on the issue of safe consumption sites (SCS). A bill tied to the stimulus package signed into law on ...
'The capital of crack' - Why can't Paris deal with its drug problem? [17.12.2020] For 30 years, crack has been the bane of this part of the capital, near Place Stalingrad, in the less glamorous northeast of the city. Since last yea ...
Scott Wiener tries — again — to allow S.F., Oakland and L.A. to open a safe drug use site [07.12.2020] State Sen. Scott Wiener is trying — once again — to allow San Francisco to open a safe injection site, where people can use drugs in a safe and super ...
How a man with a van is challenging UK drug policy [21.11.2020] Every Friday for the past two months, Peter Krykant has parked his white van on Parnie Street in central Glasgow and waited for people to come by and ...
Crime commissioner says its "ludicrous" to chase drug addicts who need help [06.11.2020] The man running the UK’s most progressive drug diversion scheme believes it’s “totally ludicrous” for officers to seek to arrest drug users at a mobi ...
Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan [25.09.2020] Canada’s other epidemic, the opioids overdose crisis, is more deadly than ever this year. Deaths in British Columbia hit new highs over the spring, i ...
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 ...
Mobile ‘fix room’ begins operating in Glasgow [02.09.2020] A drug consumption van where addicts can inject heroin has been launched in Glasgow - despite warnings it could be breaking the law. Peter Krykant, a ...
Amid spike in opioid overdoses, momentum for reform wavers [31.08.2020] U.S. states and cities are seeing increases in opioid-related overdose deaths A paper issued by the American Medical Association this summer found th ...
First major study by Glasgow experts finds Scottish public support drug consumption rooms [30.07.2020] Research from a Glasgow university has revealed that the majority of Scots back the introduction of drug consumption rooms (DCRs) – with academics in ...
Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives [08.07.2020] For five years, a secret supervised drug injection site has operated in the US, allowing drug users to inject more than 10,000 times in a sterile, pr ...
Supervised consumption sites save Alberta money: University of Calgary study [25.06.2020] A study from the University of Calgary has concluded the Calgary supervised consumption site is saving the province money. The study looked at the co ...
Safe injecting room trial extended in North Richmond [05.06.2020] Victoria will keep its supervised injecting room in North Richmond open for another three years and is set to create a second facility near Queen Vic ...
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 ...
A shortage of illicit drugs is imminent due to the coronavirus lockdown [24.03.2020] We’ve already witnessed the havoc of coronavirus as panic-buying compromises supply and distribution of food and some medicines. The illicit drug mar ...
Safe injection sites: Coronavirus underlines why they make sense [17.03.2020] As cases of COVID-19 infections and fatalities begin to surge, an aggressive testing campaign is finally getting underway across the nation. American ...
Landmark NSW inquiry condemns ineffective drug laws and calls for decriminalisation [27.02.2020] A New South Wales government-commissioned special inquiry into drug use has slammed the criminalisation of drug users as a “profound flaw” in the sta ...
Philadelphia nonprofit opening nation's first supervised injection site next week [26.02.2020] After a two-year battle, the Philadelphia nonprofit Safehouse says next week it will open the first space in the U.S. where people struggling with ad ...
What can be done about Scotland's drugs crisis? [26.02.2020] Scotland has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in Europe and the numbers are continuing to rise at an alarming speed. Both the Scottish governm ...
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, ...
Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose [14.01.2020] Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times every day, an operator answers o ...
Tainted drugs are fuelling Thunder Bay's opioid deaths, say advocates. They want a safe supply to fight it [08.01.2020] Inside the only supervised injection site in Thunder Bay, Ont., nurse practitioner Josh Fraser has reversed so many opioid overdoses that he says the ...
Philly’s supervised injection site backers say they won’t delay opening while Justice Dept. appeals [07.01.2020] The Philadelphia nonprofit hoping to operate the nation’s first supervised injection site it would not let an expected appeal by the Justice Departme ...
Canada’s opioid crisis: The people and communities fighting for change and finding solutions [23.12.2019] The drug crisis has claimed thousands of lives in Canada, with no communities spared. Now, many are banding together to speak up and find solutions. ...
Medical grade heroin drug treatment centre to open in Glasgow [26.11.2019] A new service providing medical grade heroin to the most problematic drug users in Glasgow is ready to open. The Enhanced Drug Treatment Service will ...
SNP formally backs decriminalisation of drugs [13.10.2019] The SNP has backed decriminalising the possession and consumption of drugs. At its conference in Aberdeen, a resolution was unanimously passed by del ...
Paritätische Bremen fordert Cannabis-Legalisierung [07.10.2019] Der Paritätische Bremen fordert eine Neuausrichtung der Drogen- und Suchtpolitik in Bremen. Der Spitzenverband der Wohlfahrtspflege will, dass legale ...
Judge rules planned supervised injection site does not violate federal drug laws [02.10.2019] A judge has ruled that a Philadelphia nonprofit group's plan to open the first supervised injection site in the U.S. where people can use illegal opi ...
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, ...
Fate of Philly safe consumption site now hinges on judge’s ruling [06.09.2019] Nearly two years after Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said his office would not stand in the way of a safe consumption site (SCS) to help cut the city ...
France is testing safe drug consumption rooms for opioid addicts [31.07.2019] Paris’s supervised consumption room, close to the Gare du Nord train station, is preventing potential fatalities and delivering much-needed health ca ...
When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe [23.07.2019] Western European harm reduction presents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the widespread availability of effective harm reduction programs is ...
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 ...

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