Items tagged with heroin
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| The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need [24.03.2016] | Hospitals in the U.S. and Europe routinely prescribe opioids for chronic cancer pain, end-of-life palliative care and some forms of acute pain, like ... |
| Fatal drug overdoses hit record high in US, government figures show [18.12.2015] | Deaths from drug overdoses have surged across the US to record levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationwide, overd ... |
| Heroin, survivor of War on Drugs, returns with new face [21.11.2015] | United States military operations in Afghanistan, now in their 15th year, are routinely described as America’s longest war. For overseas combat, that ... |
| Heroin addiction: How to smack it down [06.11.2015] | Ireland would establish "medically supervised injecting facilities" where heroin addicts can take their drugs, using clean equipment, under doctors’ ... |
| Young hands in Mexico feed growing U.S. demand for heroin [29.08.2015] | As heroin addiction soars in the United States, a boom is underway south of the border, reflecting the two nations’ troubled symbiosis. Officials fro ... |
| EU report: Oslo lacks drug strategy [03.07.2015] | A new EU report has found that Oslo, a city that for many years has topped the heroin overdose ranking, still lacks a comprehensive strategy to comba ... |
| While Russia grapples with HIV epidemic, Moscow’s addicts share their filthy needles [23.05.2015] | The government does not offer substitution therapy or harm reduction outreach, and the impact of grassroots groups such as Rylkov, which has only 15 ... |
| Junk policy [08.05.2015] | A century ago, in 1914, the United States banned heroin and cocaine, and it then gradually used its diplomatic might to impose this ban across the wo ... |
| Minister wants to see supervised 'injection centres' for addicts [07.05.2015] | Drugs Minister Aodhan O'Riordain from Ireland has said he wants to see legislation introducing injection centres for addicts before the next election ... |
| More South America teens using cocaine: Report [04.05.2015] | The Organization of American States' (OAS) latest drug consumption report highlights shifting trends in drug use among youths in the Western Hemisphe ... |
| Drug users should be able to get heroin from the health system [13.04.2015] | No fewer than six randomised controlled trials – in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada, and England – concluded that heroin assiste ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mexican opium farmers expand plots to supply U.S. heroin boom [02.02.2015] | Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of G ... |
| Drugs in the UK: Why we need to talk about regulation and decriminalisation [30.01.2015] | Fighting the war on drugs in the UK costs an estimated £13 billion annually. It has cost lives recently, too; four people died after taking ecstasy p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Losing marijuana business, Mexican cartels push heroin and meth [11.01.2015] | Mexican traffickers are sending a flood of cheap heroin and methamphetamine across the U.S. border, the latest drug seizure statistics show, in a new ... |
| Myanmar returns to what sells: Heroin [03.01.2015] | A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden Triangle. T ... |
| Drugs policy in Canada: Local heroin [05.12.2014] | Some European countries prescribe heroin for the most severe cases of addiction. Patients taking heroin are less likely to use illicit drugs and drop ... |
| '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 ... |
| How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph ... |
| As B.C. heroin flap shows, drug laws are not about improving health [28.11.2014] | If you’ve ever had surgery, you owe a debt to heroin-assisted therapy, and not because you were probably doped up on morphine in post-op. Rather, it’ ... |
| The great American relapse [21.11.2014] | The face of heroin use in America has changed utterly. Forty or fifty years ago heroin addicts were overwhelmingly male, disproportionately black, an ... |
| The war on drugs is lost – legalise the heroin trade [25.06.2014] | When Tony Blair deployed British troops in Afghanistan, ending the illicit production and supply of opium was cited as a key objective. In 2001 the p ... |
| Greece on crossroads of international heroin trade [23.06.2014] | Greece is a central hub on the route connecting the main country where heroin is produced, Afghanistan, and its biggest markets in Western Europe, an ... |
| Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
| 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 ... |
| ‘Federal dealer’ on 20 years of heroin scheme [13.02.2014] | The abject drug misery that held sway at Zurich’s Platzspitz park, known popularly as “Needle Park”, spurred Switzerland in 1993 to opt for a pragmat ... |
| Heroin addicts launch Charter challenge to prescription ban [12.11.2013] | Five people severely addicted to heroin are launching a constitutional challenge to the federal government’s ban on the prescription version of the d ... |
| Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [13.04.2013] | Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervi ... |
| Injection room saves 30 lives [03.04.2013] | Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy ... |
| Marijuana to fight drug addiction [01.04.2013] | BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core drugs, such ... |
| Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking [28.02.2013] | The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the numb ... |
| Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [14.02.2013] | One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on ... |
| Drug users to have secure site in Paris [11.02.2013] | Drug users in France will soon have a state-sanctioned place where they can use heroin, crack and other intravenous drugs, after the government appro ... |
| The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
| On the Frontline of Northeast India [01.03.2011] | Conflict and underdevelopment in the region have contributed to drug consumption and production, and are hampering access to treatment, care and supp ... |
| Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle [09.01.2009] | Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest re ... |
| Law enforcement and Australia’s 2001 heroin shortage [31.01.2008] | Globally, illicit drug policy is largely based on two central policy objectives. The first is to reduce the demand for illegal drugs mainly through c ... |
| Missing Targets [01.09.2007] | Despite efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to reduce poppy cultivation, opium production in Afghanistan has once again ... |
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