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Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [09-05-13]	Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation o...
Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [09-05-13]	With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ...
Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts [07-05-13]	Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from hard...
Cannabis to substitute crack [22-04-13]	The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste (o...
Daniel Vaillant pense à une «salle de crack» [13-04-13]	Daniel Vaillant (PS), a suggéré de réfléchir à la création d’une salle de consommation de crack, une fois que la «salle de shoot» de la gare du Nord a...
Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [06-04-13]	São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar districts...
Marijuana to fight drug addiction [02-04-13]	BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core dru...
UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [28-03-13]	The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the hi...
Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [26-02-13]	The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began a...
Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [15-01-13]	The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ...
Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30-12-12]	With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legal...
Legalise ganja to treat HIV, cancer, doctors tell gov't [23-12-12]	Marcus Day of the Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Institute believes the time has come for regional governments to legalise marijuana to counterac...
Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol and other drugs [20-11-12]	This article examines the subjective impact of medical cannabis on the use of both licit and illicit substances via self-report from 404 medical canna...
Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio [18-08-12]	Once crack was introduced about six years ago, Mandela and the surrounding complex of shantytowns became Rio's main outdoor drug market, a &quo...
Bring back the free crack pipes [05-09-11]	When you hear that your government is helping addicts shoot up or smoke crack, it's normal to wonder: how can this possibly be good? Until recen...
Free crack cocaine pipes enable the saving of lives [21-08-11]	In 2008, Safeworks, an outreach program of Alberta Health Services, began a harm reduction program aimed at mitigating the effects of sharing crack ...
Free crack pipe service discontinued in Calgary [19-08-11]	A decision to stop a clean crack-pipe distribution program has disappointed those working to rehabilitate street addicts. Since 2008, Alberta Health ...
Cocaine addiction treatments to improve control and reduce harm (CATCH) [19-08-11]	Cocaine, particularly in its base form ('crack'), has become one of the drugs of most concern in the Netherlands, being associated with a...
Drug users to receive crack pipes as part of pilot project [02-08-11]	Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to non-injection drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at engaging crack ...
In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard [18-07-11]	About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across thi...
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