Items tagged with heroin assisted treatment
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vancouver addicts soon to receive prescription heroin [21.11.2014] | In a North American first, heroin addicts in Vancouver will soon receive prescription heroin outside of a clinical trial. Doctors at the Providence C ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ortsbeiräte fordern legale Verkaufsstellen [29.04.2014] | Vor zehn Jahren startete in Frankfurt der Modellversuch, Heroin an schwerkranke Junkies abzugeben. Nun diskutieren Stadtparlamentarier über die Verte ... |
| ‘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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Crises and radical thinking on drug policy [16.08.2012] | It’s sad that drug policy reform must always be wrapped tragedy but alas – in the context of drugs – crisis has historically been the mother of inven ... |
| The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [24.06.2012] | The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consiste ... |
| EMCDDA report presents latest evidence on heroin-assisted treatment for hard-to-treat opioid users [18.04.2012] | A small population of chronic heroin users, once thought to be ‘untreatable’, is now benefiting from a novel type of therapy using medicinal heroin a ... |
| New heroin-assisted treatment [31.03.2012] | The prescription of substitution drugs, such as methadone and buprenorphine, has become a mainstream, first-line treatment for opioid dependence, wit ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| All parties must see that the drugs war has failed [19.12.2010] | It is clearly expecting too much of Westminster that, when a recently retired cabinet minister calls for mature debate on drugs policy, a mature deba ... |
| At least Bob Ainsworth dares to speak about drugs [19.12.2010] | People often say we have the prohibition of drugs in Britain. But illegal drugs are not prohibited, they are everywhere. What we have is a prohibitio ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Andalusian trial on heroin-assisted treatment [31.12.2009] | In 2003, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing injected diacetylmorphine and oral methadone was carried out in Andalusia, Spain. The subseque ... |
| Evaluation of Dutch Drug Policy [31.05.2009] | The main purpose of this evaluation was to determine to what extent the principal goal of Dutch drug policy has been achieved, as stated in the 1995 ... |
| Voters agree heroin scheme, but throw out dope [30.11.2008] | The Swiss look set to approve the government's drugs policy, including the prescription of heroin to addicts, but will reject a plan to decriminalise ... |
| Fate of drug laws hazy but voters will decide [23.10.2008] | A first opinion poll found that the prescription of heroin for addicts stands a good chance of passing on November 30. However, a proposal to decrimi ... |
| The impact of heroin prescription on heroin markets in Switzerland [01.01.2000] | A program of heroin prescription was introduced in Switzerland in 1994. This initially targeted 1,000 heavily dependent heroin users, most of whom we ... |
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