Items tagged with harm reduction
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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 ... |
| The Tenderloin suffers under another inhumane crackdown [30.03.2022] | In December, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin (TL), a neighborhood which has long been home to some o ... |
| ‘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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Could crack cocaine vapes be harm reduction tools of the future? [17.11.2021] | There is a glut of research surrounding safer alternatives for people who use opioids. Less well researched are safer alternatives for crack cocaine ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Une très forte majorité de Français interrogés favorables à « un débat sur la politique des drogues » [22.01.2021] | Une forte majorité de la population française pense que la politique de répression n’est pas « efficace pour lutter contre la consommation de drogues ... |
| Leaked FBI report: Drug sellers practice harm reduction [02.12.2020] | The recognition that people who sell drugs can play a crucial role in reducing the harms caused by drug criminalization is not limited to reformers, ... |
| 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 ... |
| ‘Life-saving and life-changing’: BC’s safe supply program gets major expansion [16.09.2020] | Bold changes and a dramatic expansion are coming to safe supply efforts in B.C. in response to an increasingly toxic drug supply and the deadly overd ... |
| 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 ... |
| The EU should not fight drugs but reduce harms [05.08.2020] | The European Commission has published its new EU drug strategy (now called the Drugs Agenda), which is part of a wider Security Union strategy entitl ... |
| Biden-Sanders task force does not recommend legalizing marijuana [10.07.2020] | A task force formed between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, which had prior heated discussions on cannabis, agreed on multiple criminal justice priorit ... |
| “We’re human beings. Help us.” [06.05.2020] | COVID-19 and the lockdown have obviously hit many different groups in different ways, but few as severely as street-homeless people who use drugs. Th ... |
| Canada’s Safe-Supply vending machines project is even more important now [05.05.2020] | Due to the increase in opioid overdoses, British Columbia declared a public health emergency in 2016. Fentanyl was in town, contributing to thousands ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
| 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 ... |
| Opioid vending machine opens in Vancouver [17.02.2020] | A vending machine for powerful opioids has opened in Canada as part of a project to help fight the Canadian city’s overdose crisis. The MySafe projec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Global State of Harm Reduction [01.01.2020] | The Global State of Harm Reduction e-tool is an online resource containing up-to-date information on harm reduction policy and programming around the ... |
| Vancouver pilots new fentanyl-patch program to combat opioid crisis [13.11.2019] | A Vancouver physician is prescribing fentanyl to patients with opioid-use disorder in the latest effort by the medical community to curb overdose dea ... |
| 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, ... |
| Malaysia's Government looks to decriminalise drug use in bid to stem disadvantage [14.09.2019] | The non-descript white van parked at the mosque entrance went mostly unnoticed. In conservative Malaysia, very few of the Muslim faithful on their wa ... |
| 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 ... |
| The profile of festival drug takers might be different to what you expect [18.07.2019] | A NSW Coronial Inquest investigating a series of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals has heard evidence of festival goers taking multip ... |
| 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. ... |
| Calls for drug law reform in Sweden as drug deaths continue unabated [18.04.2019] | The debate around Sweden’s zero-tolerance drug policy has been reignited in recent months, due to the approach’s failure to reduce drug deaths. Swede ... |
| Major UN report condemns punitive drugs policies [15.03.2019] | A new report from the United Nations System Coordination Task Team describes punitive drug policies as “ineffective in reducing drug trafficking or i ... |
| 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 ... |
| Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
| Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms [15.02.2019] | Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with ... |
| Government register contradicts stated policy, cannabis smokers lobby says [25.01.2019] | Obliging Maltese cannabis smokers to register for them to have access to cannabis will achieve the opposite of the government’s stated aim of adoptin ... |
| Music festivals are offering to test the safety of people’s drugs, and police increasingly like the idea [04.01.2019] | For a long time, authorities at festivals in Australia and elsewhere almost entirely focused on preventing people from taking drugs in the first plac ... |
| New Zealand embraces pill testing as Australian politicians resist [03.01.2019] | As Australian politicians continue to rule out pill testing at music festivals, New Zealand appears to be embracing the controversial practice. The c ... |
| A promising way to help drug users is ‘severely lacking’ around the world, report says [11.12.2018] | Global funding for harm reduction programs is in “crisis,” according to the latest Global State of Harm Reduction report, potentially threatening the ... |
| Testing drugs at festivals is ‘a lifesaver’, study finds [09.12.2018] | An alarming rise in drug-related deaths at music festivals can be countered by testing illicit substances onsite, according to the first academic stu ... |
| War against drug users ineffective for combating abuse: Study [04.12.2018] | The government’s focus on jailing drug users while providing only little funding to help users get healthy again is not effective in combating drug a ... |
| Harm reduction is the right way to treat drug abuse [24.11.2018] | Portugal’s policies are based on “harm reduction” approaches pioneered in countries such as Switzerland in the 1980s. The idea is to emphasise treatm ... |
| ‘An argument that made no sense at all’ [05.10.2018] | Former Gov. Ed Rendell announced that he is incorporating a nonprofit, called Safehouse, that will work to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia ... |
| Seek drug reform within international law: Tom Blickman [01.10.2018] | Dating back to the latter part of 1800s, precisely in 1894-95, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission consisting of medical experts of Indian and British o ... |
| 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 ... |
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