Crack Pipes & Dog Whistles – Behind the Racist Media Coverage of Harm Reduction in the US
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As fatal overdoses continue to rise amid the pandemic, there is a growing acceptance of harm reduction and its necessity…
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Ukraine’s opiate users: Russian invasion has severely disrupted access to drug-treatment services
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About 317,000 Ukrainians inject drugs like heroin regularly. As of January, 14,868 of them were receiving substitute opiates such as methadone…
Where’s the Justice in Arresting Michael K. Williams’ Drug Sellers?
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The death of Michael K. Williams put another familiar and widely cherished face among the many that perished from drug overdoses…
How Drug Policy and Policing Harm Children in Rio de Janeiro
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A new report by the Centre for Security and Citizenship Studies (CESeC, in Portuguese) shows that 1154 primary schools in…
Как драгчекинг влияет на поведение потребителей наркотиков
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Услуги по проверке состава наркотиков (драгчекинг) предоставляют анализ химического состава образцов наркотиков, которые люди приносят в лаборатории. В зависимости от…
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…
“The disposable foot soldiers of crime” – Media, County Lines and Moral Panics
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‘We are cutting the head off the snake and taking down the kingpins behind these deadly supply lines…Drug abuse and…
Расстройство или зависимость: как ярлыки усиливают государственный контроль
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Чтобы как-то обозначить факт употребления человеком наркотиков или состояние его психического здоровья, мы — общество — часто навешиваем на него ярлыки.…
“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,…
Brazilian D.A.R.E. Programme is A Failure. We Need Real Drug Education
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Previous studies conducted in other Brazilian states—as well as in other parts of South America and the world —have reached…