Treat Illegal Drug Use As Health Issue, Says UK Government Review – Here’s Why
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The scale of the illicit drug trade in the UK is immense. Last year, the first part of an independent…
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US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 2)
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>> Read Part 1 here. The fate of a harm reduction organisation in Atlantic City, New Jersey is up in the…
US Syringe Exchanges Are Still Under Attack (Part 1)
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In some ways, people who inject drugs in the United States are enjoying unprecedented lawful access to supplies to keep…
Canada: Decriminalising Drug Use Is A Necessary Step, But It Won’t End The Opioid Overdose Crisis
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Media, policy-makers, advocates and the public claim that decriminalization will make drug use safer and save lives. But can it?…
Take-Home Naloxone: The Peoples’ Overdose Antidote
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Given the high prevalence of opioid mortality rates around the globe, naloxone, an opioid antagonist, has become a crucial medication…
Russia and Belarus officially oppose harm reduction, decriminalisation and human rights – at the UN signed the Political Declaration on HIV-AIDS 2021
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On 8 June 2021, the UN High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York adopted the 2021 Political Declaration on…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [May 2021]
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1. Russia: policemen, who were declared guilty of planting drugs to Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, have been sentenced to up…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [May 2021]
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Police officers who planted drugs on Russian journalist Ivan Golunov have been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison,…
Global Harm Reduction Funding Crisis Is Worse Than Ever
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Globally, 2019 saw 1.7 million new HIV infections, with 690,000 deaths from complications related to AIDS. There are now an estimated…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [April 2021]
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Ukraine: Instead of drug policy reform, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree on the circulation of some cannabis-based medicines…
Point of View: Chemsex Harm Reduction with Patriic Gayle
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A volunteer for the Gay Men’s Health Collective (GMHC), I write for its health and wellbeing website MENRUS.CO.UK. By diving…
What I Learned From My First Injection Infection
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[This article contains an image of injection wounds.] I had my first injection infection in the winter of 2020.…