CannabisDrug PolicyBig Pharma Seizes Brazilian Market While Medical Cannabis Bill is StalledFelipe Neis Araujo.Sep 1, 2021On 8 June, after five long years, the Special Commission of the Brazilian Lower House of Parliament gathered to discuss…
Alex Gibney’s “The Crime of the Century” – Manufacturing The Opioid Crisis In AmericaKatarzyna Berkowicz.Aug 25, 2021After his prominent documentaries ‘Going Clear: Scientology’, ‘Agents of Chaos’ and the recent ‘The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon…
Drug PolicyFormer Brazilian Health Ministers Call For The End of Involuntary Commitment of Minors to Therapeutic CommunitiesFelipe Neis Araujo.Aug 19, 2021On August 4, seven former ministers of health who served under presidents Lula, Dilma Roussef and Jair Bolsonaro published a…
Drug PolicyMoving Deckchairs On The Titanic: Drug Policy Reform in the UKAlan Carr.Aug 17, 2021We are first and second authors on a paper titled “Illegal drugs in the UK: Is it time for considered…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyOpioidsAnti-Methadone Rhetoric Exacerbates Public Health Crisis In The UKNiamh Eastwood & Rick Lines.Aug 17, 2021Drug related deaths are once again at an all-time high, with Scotland and England reporting increases in fatalities. In the…
Coca & CocaineDrug Harm ReductionOpioidsOther DrugsDRUG ALERTS – August 2021 (UK)Release.Aug 14, 2021DRUG ALERT – 14 August 2021 Portsmouth, Hampshire & London The following information is for people who use heroin…
Drug Harm ReductionDrugs & GenderPersonal Stories“Undoing Drugs”—Maia Szalavitz’s Profound History of Harm ReductionTravis Lupick.Jul 27, 2021In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, and, though it was talked about…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyPersonal StoriesTalking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [June 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jul 10, 20211. Russian popular journalist Yuri Dud has been accused of publishing drug propaganda when interviewing rapper Morgenstern and blogger IOneGuy, Meduza…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyPersonal StoriesTalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [June 2021]Anastasia Bezverkha.Jul 10, 2021Russian TV presenter Yury Dudy has become a defendant in an administrative case of drug propaganda because of his interviews…
Drug PolicyDrug Pragmatics – Who decides: the police or the doctor?Anastasia Bezverkha.Jul 8, 2021In 2014, a trial was completed in Russia against a doctor, Alevtina Khorinyak, who was prosecuted for writing a prescription…
Drug Harm ReductionDrug PolicyTreat Illegal Drug Use As Health Issue, Says UK Government Review – Here’s WhyIan Hamilton.Jul 8, 2021The scale of the illicit drug trade in the UK is immense. Last year, the first part of an independent…
Drug Harm ReductionUS Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 2)Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard.Jul 6, 2021>> Read Part 1 here. The fate of a harm reduction organisation in Atlantic City, New Jersey is up in the…