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,…
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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.…
The Forgotten History of European Drug-Dealer Activism
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In a small Dutch city outside of The Netherlands, drug user activists from around the world gathered in 1999 for…
Debunking Myths: Naloxone, The Life-Saving Antidote To Opioid Overdose
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The recent naloxone and overdose awareness campaign launched in the UK has stimulated an important conversation amongst many: what is…
New psychoactive substances in Estonia: fentanyl, alpha-PVP and harm reduction
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Estonia has historically had an extremely high number of drug-related deaths per capita. However, over the past 3 years, according…
World Executions for Drug Charges Fell Sharply Amid COVID. It’s Likely Temporary.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year, governments executed far fewer people for drug convictions than they did in…
Just Say No’ To Zero Tolerance Policies: Why Universities Must Adopt Harm Reduction
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It’s time to adopt a harm-reduction approach to student drug use. Despite decades of universities taking the ‘just say no’ approach, and…
National Overdose Awareness and Naloxone campaign launches in the UK
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A new national Overdose Awareness and Naloxone campaign – thought to be the first of its kind – has launched…
UNDP Brazil Condones Forced Abstinence and Religious Pathologisation of People Who Use Drugs
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The United Nations Development Programme–Brazil is taking further steps in its ideological alignment with Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet. TalkingDrugs recently reported…