Items tagged with harm reduction
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| Clubbers should be able to test their ecstasy [28.11.2011] | 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 i ... |
| ATS and Harm Reduction [04.11.2011] | 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 [02.11.2011] | 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 [20.10.2011] | 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 bot ... |
| De Nederlandse kabinetsplannen in internationaal perspectief [02.10.2011] | 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 [01.10.2011] | 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 [01.10.2011] | 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 [15.09.2011] | 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 [05.09.2011] | 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 recently, ... |
| Free crack cocaine pipes enable the saving of lives [21.08.2011] | In 2008, Safeworks, an outreach program of Alberta Health Services, began a harm reduction program aimed at mitigating the effects of sharing crack p ... |
| Free crack pipe service discontinued in Calgary [19.08.2011] | A decision to stop a clean crack-pipe distribution program has disappointed those working to rehabilitate street addicts. Since 2008, Alberta Health ... |
| Drug users to receive crack pipes as part of pilot project [02.08.2011] | 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 c ... |
| Uptake, benefits of and barriers to safer crack use kit (SCUK) distribution programmes in Victoria, Canada [30.06.2011] | Crack use is prevalent amongst street drug users in Canadian cities, and associated with severe drug use, health and social problems. Whilst few targ ... |
| Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'Total War on Drugs' [08.06.2011] | "Sending more people to prison will not reduce drug addiction or improve public health," said Anya Sarang, president of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, ... |
| The Global Commission: breaking the Vienna Consensus [07.06.2011] | TNI has been closely involved with the Global Commission on Drug Policy which presented its report in New York on June 2. Some years ago we published ... |
| Voices from the Margin [06.06.2011] | "Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," said Gil Kerlikows ... |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy Report [02.06.2011] | The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of ... |
| Expert Workshop on Supply-Oriented Harm Reduction [10.05.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) invited a group of 20 experts for a round-table discussion at the ... |
| Vancouver's safe injection site cuts overdose deaths [18.04.2011] | The number of drug-overdose deaths on Vancouver’s notorious downtown Eastside fell sharply after the opening of a safe injection site, new research s ... |
| INCB Report: mixed thoughts [02.03.2011] | Today the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released its annual report. I’ve been following the Board for many, many years now, have often ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [09.02.2011] | The West Coast is a different world when it comes to progress on drug policy reform. Three of the four states most likely to see strong pushes for ma ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| The Dutch treatment and social support system for drug users [15.01.2011] | This paper, written in collaboration with the Correlation Network, briefly describes the history and the basic elements of the Dutch drug dependence ... |
| Human Rights and Drug Policy [30.11.2010] | In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerati ... |
| Expert Seminar on ATS and Harm Reduction [26.11.2010] | This report captures the main outcomes from an informal expert seminar on harm reduction in relation to the rising problems with the use of Amphetami ... |
| The Prague Declaration - 7 Principles for Urban Drug Policies [10.11.2010] | The Prague Declaration is a statement of representatives of municipal governments, decision makers responsible for local and municipal drug policies, ... |
| Thematic Briefings on Human Rights and Drug Policy [28.10.2010] | In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerati ... |
| From the Mountaintops [27.10.2010] | Published by the Open Society Foundations, this report looks at how evidence-based services such as heroin treatment, injection rooms, and needle exc ... |
| UN expert calls for a fundamental shift in global drug control policy [26.10.2010] | At a press conference in New York on Tuesday 26 October, 2010, at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN’s key human ... |
| What the World Can Learn from Switzerland’s Drug Policy Shift [25.10.2010] | This short film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), a grantee of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program, outlines how the country suc ... |
| Portuguese priorities [11.10.2010] | In July 2001, the Portuguese government introduced Law 30, setting in train a radical new approach to illicit drug use. In practice, it decriminalise ... |
| Norway contemplating Heroin Assisted Treatment [13.08.2010] | The recent report of the Stoltenberg Committee, set up by the Norwegian Health Minister to review the country’s drug situation, included a recommenda ... |
| Right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health [06.08.2010] | The current international system of drug control has focused on creating a drug-free world, almost exclusively through use of law enforcement policie ... |
| Urgent Reform Needed [04.08.2010] | Experts and policymakers have gathered in Vienna for the 18th International AIDS Conference to evaluate current trends in HIV/AIDS treatment and prev ... |
| If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It? [01.08.2010] | Critics of the international drug control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but they also produce un ... |
| At 10, Portugal's Drug Law Draws New Scrutiny [20.07.2010] | Portugal's move to decriminalize illicit substances—Europe's most liberal drug legislation—turns 10 years old this month amid new scrutiny and plaudi ... |
| Heroin Assisted Treatment [15.07.2010] | This briefing paper explores the question of Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT), examines the growing body of evidence emerging from its clinical use in ... |
| Do we really want a Russian UN Drug Czar? [09.07.2010] | According to the Transform blog, it has been confirmed that the Russian diplomat Yuri V. Fedotov has been appointed as the new Executive Director of ... |
| A Russian Drug Czar for the world? [06.07.2010] | A top Russian diplomat, Yuri V. Fedotov, has emerged as the front-runner in the race to become the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and C ... |
| The Vienna Declaration [29.06.2010] | The Vienna Declaration is a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into ill ... |
| New UN drugs tsar must be a leader on human rights [24.06.2010] | Recently, the UNODC has begun to take notice of the impact of its counternarcotics work on human rights. Antonio Maria Costa, the current executive d ... |
| The Safer Crack Use Program [01.06.2010] | This fact sheet explains the Safer Crack Use Program of the Public Health Department of Toronto (Canada). In Toronto, a range of community-based, gov ... |
| What is harm reduction? [31.05.2010] | Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unab ... |
| Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges [01.04.2010] | This EMCDDA monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the harm reduction field. The core audience of the monograph comprises policymakers, healt ... |
| Speeding up the response [01.04.2010] | Despite heavy media coverage of amphetamines and increased research attention in some countries, the harm reduction response remains underdeveloped w ... |
| The fast and the furious [01.04.2010] | Harm reduction programmes targeting stimulants like cocaine and (meth)amphetamines in several countries have shown positive results. However, these p ... |
| The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010 [01.04.2010] | The report provides a region-by-region update of key developments in harm reduction. It also explores several issues key to the response to drug-rela ... |
| IDPC Drug Policy Guide [01.03.2010] | This is the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide aimed at national government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a ... |
| Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy [01.11.2009] | This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model towar ... |
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