Check Your Drugs (and yourself): the impact of drug checking services on consumer behaviours
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Drug checking services provide a breakdown of the chemical composition of drug samples that people bring to laboratories. Depending on…
Posts by André Gomes
“Duterte has degraded the discourse so much it’s become a matter of whether to kill or not” – Gideon Lasco on Drugs and the Philippines
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An academic by training, Gideon Lasco does not limit his career to producing journal articles and book chapters. Beyond academia,…
2022 Global Drug Survey: Help make it bigger than ever for its 10 year anniversary
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2022 marks the 10 year anniversary of the Global Drug Survey, one of the largest global investigations into people’s drug…
Few Highs, Tough Lows: Release’s take on the Government’s new Drug Strategy
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On Monday, the UK Government released their 10-year Drug Strategy entitled: “Harm to Hope: a 10-year drugs plan to cut…
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Digital words with Constellations panellists
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With the stellar HRI conference Constellations starting tomorrow, TalkingDrugs had the opportunity to catch up with some of the panellists…
“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment Facilities
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As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…
Responding to the Scottish Lord Advocate’s statement on drugs
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On Thursday, 23 September, the Scottish Lord Advocate (chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland…
Book: Dopeworld’s deep dive into Hydra and one of its Russian cyber queen-pins
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Niko Vorobyov has shared with TalkingDrugs an extract of his latest book, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade. It…
Estonian harm reduction programme brilliantly reverses its overdose epidemic
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Previously a stark example of the harms of synthetic opioids, Estonia successfully implemented a range of harm-reduction programmes that reversed…
Why are social media giants censoring life-saving information?
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In early August, the Instagram page of Pill Report, one of the most popular social media pages advocating for responsible…
Marking International Overdose Awareness Day 2021
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the International Overdose Awareness Day campaign, started in 2001 by The Salvation Army in…
Online Drug Vendors Exploiting United States Postal Service
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Online drug vendors are anonymously delivering their products through the US Postal Service, and the constitutional right to privacy is…