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Is The COVID-19 Pandemic Increasing The Marginalisation Of People Who Inject Drugs?

Feb 2, 2021

UK needle exchanges reducing their hours or services due to the COVID-19 pandemic is putting people who inject drugs at…

Drugs & Women Opioids

How COVID-19 Is Impacting Women Poppy Growers in Guerrero, Mexico

Corina Giacomello

Dec 8, 2020

Since the beginning of the pandemic, much has been written on its effects on people who use drugs, drug trafficking…

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Hell and Back Again: Life, Death and Heroin in Russia

Niko Vorobyov

Mar 10, 2020

While small amounts of drugs in theory are decriminalised in Russia, in practise lack of treatment; crooked or overeager cops;…

Drugs & Race Opioids Other Drugs

The highs and lows of the opium trade in southern Africa

Thembisa Waetjen

Feb 5, 2020

The reach of European empires and of Indian Ocean trade networks drew southern Africa into the global politics of opium…

Drug Harm Reduction Drugs & Women Opioids

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it’s important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi

Oct 16, 2019

Heroin is the main drug taken by injection in Kenya. Mostly found and used in Kenya’s big cities – Mombasa…

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ГидрАэкономика или как российский наркорынок ушел в даркнет

Anastasia Bezverkha

Sep 20, 2019

Российская онлайн площадка “Гидра” стала крупнейшим в мире даркнет сайтом для продажи наркотиков. Результаты впервые проведенного исследования сделок на российском даркнет…

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Opiates & Us

Jugular Malloy

Sep 16, 2019

Opiates and Us by Jugular Malloy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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The Empowering and Dangerous Work of Harm Reduction in Afghanistan

Michelle Tolson

Sep 12, 2019

Idris Azizi speaks softly when he relates how, as a person living with HIV, he was told to sit in…

Opioids Other Drugs Personal Stories

The Magic Bracelet

Olga Belyaeva

Sep 4, 2019

When I heard someone knocking on my hotel room’s door and shouting “She is dying!!!” I was in the bathroom.…

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UK drug deaths continue to rise – time for action

Alex Stevens & Ian Hamilton

Aug 16, 2019

Every year since 2013, the UK’s Office for National Statistics has reported an increase in drug-related deaths in England. Last year, we…

Drug Harm Reduction Opioids

Впервые в России областной бюджет профинансирует программу профилактики передозировок

Anastasia Bezverkha

Jul 26, 2019

Власти Кемеровской области Российской Федерации выделили 3,6 миллиона рублей на финансирование комплексной программы по профилактике передозировок от употребления наркотиков. Впервые…

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Malaysia’s changing stance on drugs: breaking away from punitive policy in Southeast Asia

Charlotte Kincaid

Jul 23, 2019

Malaysia has adopted a zero-tolerance approach to drugs but on 27 June 2019, Minister of Health, Dzulkefly Ahmad announced legislation…