overdose

The Overdose Prevention Alliance (OPA) is a relatively new web site focusing on worldwide news regarding harm reduction with a goal to "collect and document major issues in overdose worldwide, to encourage overdose prevention initiatives, and to promote good practice from a harm reduction perspective, disseminate new research findings, and correct misinformation." OPA through their web site offer a range of information and news about overdose prevention.

Minister for Community Safety Fergus Ewing reiterated that the Scottish Government is doing all it can to tackle problem drug use in Scotland.
The pledge came as figures compiled by the General Register Office for Scotland show that there were 545 drug-related deaths in 2009, compared with 574 deaths in 2008.
Mr Ewing said:
"I extend my sympathies to everyone who has been affected by the loss of a loved one. These figures published today remind us that drug misuse destroys lives, and the impact is felt far beyond the individual user.

The tragic death of the 16-year-old boy, Raymond Strosina product of a cocaine and heroine overdose had a dramatic twist when the justice decided to charge his mother, Patricia Strosina. She is being charged not only of teaching her son to use drugs, but also consuming them together in a regular basis, which led her son’s death.

The drug market has changed completely in past few years in Moscow. “The time of synthetics has come!”-say drug users.

Everything was clear before: heroin, cannabis, “clubbing” pills. Today the main drugs are so-called pharmaceutical drugs: drugs that cannot be sold without a prescription, but nevertheless they are sold in big quantities through dishonest pharmacists. The most widely-spread and most dangerous one is antidepressant Coaxil. Its affordable and life-threatening if injected intravenously.