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Items tagged with harm reduction

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Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs [28-03-12] 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 [28-03-12] President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador denied that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce cre...
Policing drug sales: Cleaning up the ’hood [03-03-12] 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 3...
Russia: Government Shuts HIV-Prevention Group’s Website [08-02-12] 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 [02-02-12] 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 ...
Towards a smarter drugs policy [07-01-12] 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 [05-01-12] 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 pharm...
Drug Policy in the Andes [15-12-11] 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,...
Obama Drug Policy: Reforming the Criminal Justice System [02-12-11] The complexity and scale of our drug problem requires a nationwide effort to support smart drug policies that reduce drug use and its consequences. ...
Clubbers should be able to test their ecstasy [29-11-11] Media reports of two deaths at the weekend in the same party venue have once again been accompanied by police suggestions that the drug responsible is...
ATS and Harm Reduction [04-11-11] Problematic use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) has become a significant health and social problem in East and Southeast Asia, in particular the ...
The State of Harm Reduction in Europe [02-11-11] The film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended the first meeting of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) in Marseille, ...
Legalizing drugs isn’t the answer [20-10-11] Most of us can agree that current drug policy in North America is a disaster. The global war on drugs can’t be won. Locking up addicts in jail is bo...
De Nederlandse kabinetsplannen in internationaal perspectief [03-10-11] Na een lange periode van pragmatisme en gedurfde vernieuwingen van het drugsbeleid, waarmee Nederland ook internationaal een pioniersrol innam, is er ...
Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction [01-10-11] Little is known about the methamphetamine market in the region, but there are strong indications that the situation is deteriorating with substances...
Breaking the Silence [01-10-11] This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence ...
Mobile injection room rolls out [15-09-11] Two out-of-service ambulances have been put back into service as mobile injection rooms for drug addicts in Copenhagen (Denmark). The vehicles will b...
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 ...
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