1 Year In, Egypt’s Opioid Agonist Treatment Programme Keeps Growing
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In 2023, Egypt celebrated one year of initiating Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT, also known as Substitution Therapy) services for the…
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Global Harm Reduction Growing Yet Still Punitive, According to New Report
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Harm Reduction International’s (HRI) 2024 edition of the Global State of Harm Reduction highlighted how Indigenous people and youth lack…
‘Know Drugs’: Reframing Drug Education Is Key To Ending The Drug War
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Worldwide, the prevalence of drug use transcends borders, nationalities, and demographics. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)…
Alpha-PVP: What Is It, and Key Harm Reduction Tips
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Alpha-PyrrolidinoValeroPhenone (also known as alpha-PVP) is a relatively recent New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) in global circulation. While previously prominent in…
“Am I Not a Citizen?”- The Inequality of Brazil’s Cannabis Law Changes
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When I started thinking about examining recent the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) No. 45 of 2023 and the…
Drug Checking Tusi is a Headache for Harm Reductionists
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Tusi, a mostly pink powder with a sweet aroma, has become an intriguing phenomenon in the modern party scene. At…
Alpha-PVP And New Psychoactive Substances Surging Across EECA Region
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Alpha-PVP (alpha-PyrrolidinoValeroPhenone), also colloquially known as “flakka”, is a synthetic version of the stimulants known as cathinones, one of the…
Grief and Harm Reduction
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In 2017 I wrote an article for The MAPS Bulletin, called ‘The Elephant in the Room: The Need to Address…
“Cannabis Substitution Therapy”: Can Cannabis Ease Opioid Withdrawal?
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Rosie Rurka had a reputation as the frontline drugs worker who brought people back from the dead with naloxone after…
Regional Australian Synthetic Opioids Plan Launched Amid Growing Concerns
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The lack of readiness to deal with synthetic opioids like fentanyl, nitazenes and their analogues has prompted Australian harm reduction…
Philippines Drug Policy and Law Summit: Is Harm Reduction Genuine Reform or Co-optation?
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After six years of state-sponsored killings under the Duterte administration, the Philippines elected a new President in 2022. Ferdinand “Bong…
2023 Drug Deaths: Another Year of National Disgrace For Scotland
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Every year, on the day that the Government announces the number of drug-related deaths in the previous year, Scotland braces…