Items tagged with harm reduction
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Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs [28.03.2012] | 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 [27.03.2012] | President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador denied that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited ... |
Commanding general confidence? [11.03.2012] | This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control ... |
Policing drug sales: Cleaning up the ’hood [02.03.2012] | 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 ... |
Russia: Government shuts HIV-prevention group’s website [08.02.2012] | 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 [02.02.2012] | 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 cl ... |
Towards a smarter drugs policy [06.01.2012] | 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 [05.01.2012] | 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 phar ... |
Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | 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," ma ... |
Obama Drug Policy: Reforming the Criminal Justice System [02.12.2011] | The complexity and scale of our drug problem requires a nationwide effort to support smart drug policies that reduce drug use and its consequences. T ... |
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 ... |
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