Items tagged with heroin
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| Victorian Parliament can save lives by trialling safe injecting room [18.09.2017] | Dozens of people have fatally overdosed on heroin in the gutters, laneways and front gardens of Richmond. Not a single person has ever died in a safe ... |
| Toronto's guerrilla war on drug overdoses [15.09.2017] | Nurses and volunteers watch over drug users at the Toronto's first pop-up supervised drug-use site. In the month since the site started operating in ... |
| The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users looks back on 20 years fighting for human rights [04.09.2017] | In the late summer of 1997, a poster with a message aimed at drug users appeared on electrical poles around the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. “Meet ... |
| The first count of fentanyl deaths in 2016: Up 540% in three years [02.09.2017] | Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to ... |
| How the war on drugs fueled the fentanyl crisis [29.08.2017] | A staggering 59,000 people died of drug overdose in 2016 according to a recent New York Times analysis. Annual overdose deaths in the US have already ... |
| Ottawa rejects expert calls to decriminalize illegal opioids [28.08.2017] | Ottawa says it has no plans to consider decriminalizing hard drugs, such as heroin, despite calls from local politicians, health officials and expert ... |
| Secret supervised drug injection facility has been operating at US site for years [08.08.2017] | For nearly three years, in an undisclosed US city, a social service agency has quietly been inviting people to inject illegal drugs at a clandestine ... |
| We already know how to stop people dying from drugs – but the Government refuses to do it [02.08.2017] | Last year saw the highest number of drug-related deaths since records began in 1993. More than half of these deaths involved an opiate, such as heroi ... |
| Illegal drug market is booming, says UN watchdog [22.06.2017] | The world’s illicit drug economy is “thriving” owing to large increases in the production of heroin and cocaine and a wider spectrum of synthetic sub ... |
| The case for prescription heroin [12.06.2017] | As a deadly and devastating opioid epidemic ravages North America, the Providence Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver BC is giving their patients legal acc ... |
| Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever [05.06.2017] | Drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely exceeded 59,000, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States, according to preliminary data c ... |
| In Mexico, the price of America’s hunger for heroin [30.05.2017] | The opioid epidemic that has caused so much pain in the United States is also savaging Mexico, contributing to a breakdown of order in rural areas. H ... |
| An experiment helps heroin users test their street drugs for fentanyl [16.05.2017] | Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is "similar to morphine but can be 50 to 100 times more potent," according to the National Institute on Drug Abus ... |
| Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives [25.04.2017] | A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine ... |
| Legalize heroin for 'less overdose deaths,’ forensic psychologist tells Vancouver conference [25.04.2017] | A forensic psychologist working with the Canadian prison system is calling for “radically different” approaches to B.C.’s overdose crisis, including ... |
| Blunt talk: The racist origins of pot prohibition [20.04.2017] | In the past year, 55 million Americans have used marijuana. The other 260 million are pretty divided in how they feel about that. It will probably no ... |
| Is Md. ready for 'heroin assisted therapy'? [10.04.2017] | The idea of giving heroin addicts heroin to keep them from crime and other dangers has never been popular with American politicians. Yet several West ... |
| B.C. mulls framework for expanded heroin-assisted treatment [06.04.2017] | Prescription heroin, a last-resort treatment for severe addiction currently restricted to only one clinic in all of North America, could one day be d ... |
| How the opioid epidemic became America’s worst drug crisis ever [23.03.2017] | America is in the middle of its deadliest drug crisis ever. In 2015, more than 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, nearly two-thirds of which were ... |
| Injecting drugs, under a watchful eye [18.01.2017] | It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States. America has another epidemic now: overdose deaths fr ... |
| Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse? [10.12.2016] | Fentanyl is the latest and most disturbing twist in the epidemic of opioid addiction that has crept across the United States over the past two decade ... |
| A brief history of war and drugs: From Vikings to Nazis [24.11.2016] | Adolf Hitler was a junkie and the Nazis' narcotics intake gives new meaning to the term 'war on drugs'. But they weren't the only ones. Recent public ... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co ... |
| Vancouver’s safer injection services stalled as overdose death toll mounts [30.09.2016] | On Sept. 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first legally authorized safer injection site. ... |
| Safe injection clinic says 90% of clients' heroin had dangerous drug additive [01.09.2016] | North America’s only supervised injection site has found that 90% of its clients’ heroin contained the powerful synthetic fentanyl. Vancouver’s Insit ... |
| DEA’s sudden 'herbal heroin' ban triggers stiff resistance from kratom community [31.08.2016] | An increasingly popular plant product called "herbal heroin" by detractors is about to become illegal in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Admi ... |
| Seattle’s potential solution for heroin epidemic: Places for legal drug use [24.08.2016] | A task force established to combat a heroin epidemic in the Seattle metropolitan area has endorsed a strategy of establishing places where addicts wo ... |
| Needle vs needle: a vaccine for drug addiction? [13.07.2016] | Apparently they are working on a vaccine for drug addiction (specifically, opiate addiction). There are already studies into vaccinating against coca ... |
| Plans for UK's first drug injecting centre in Glasgow [29.06.2016] | Plans are being drawn up for the UK's first drug injecting facility in Glasgow city centre to tackle rising HIV cases and risk to the public from dis ... |
| A deadly crisis: mapping the spread of America's drug overdose epidemic [25.05.2016] | America is in the midst of an unprecedented drug overdose epidemic. Nationally, overdose deaths have more than doubled over the past decade and a hal ... |
| Street opioids are getting deadlier. Overseeing drug use can reduce deaths [25.04.2016] | As health officials battle increasing mortality associated with heroin and prescription opioids, an even more dangerous group of street drugs has app ... |
| Vancouver prescriptions for addicts gain attention as heroin and opioid use rises [20.04.2016] | Vancouver’s Crosstown Clinic, the only medical facility in North America permitted to prescribe heroin at the center of an epidemic raging across the ... |
| Russia's 'cold turkey' approach highlights global divide over drug treatment at UN [19.04.2016] | As international leaders debated global drug law at the United Nations, a bizarre panel on heroin treatment showed just how divided countries are ove ... |
| How Canada got addicted to fentanyl [07.04.2016] | The supply chain for illicit fentanyl begins in China, but the problems Canada is experiencing start right here at home: No other country in the worl ... |
| EU Drug Markets Report [04.04.2016] | The 2016 EU Drug Markets Report provides a unique insight into the operation of illicit drug markets in the EU. The report assesses the impact of the ... |
| Barack Obama: 'drug addiction is a health problem, not a criminal problem' [30.03.2016] | Barack Obama committed to take on America’s growing heroin and prescription opioid epidemic by devoting resources to prevention and treatment, rather ... |
| Support for marijuana legalization has hit an all-time high [24.03.2016] | A survey released by the University of Chicago finds that a record-high percentage of Americans – 61 percent – say they support marijuana legalizatio ... |
| 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 ... |
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