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Estonian harm reduction programme brilliantly reverses its overdose epidemic

Sep 17, 2021

Previously a stark example of the harms of synthetic opioids, Estonia successfully implemented a range of harm-reduction programmes that reversed…

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Anti-Methadone Rhetoric Exacerbates Public Health Crisis In The UK

Niamh Eastwood & Rick Lines

Aug 17, 2021

Drug related deaths are once again at an all-time high, with Scotland and England reporting increases in fatalities. In the…

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DRUG ALERTS – August 2021 (UK)

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Aug 14, 2021

DRUG ALERT – 14 August 2021 Portsmouth, Hampshire & London The following information is for people who use heroin…

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Трилемма наркополитики: как эффективно бороться с наркотиками, обеспечив также мир и развитие?

Talking Drugs

May 27, 2021

Смерть 25 человек в результате полицейского рейда в Рио де Жанейро в мае 2021 года вновь актуализировала фокус “войны с наркотиками”…

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National Overdose Awareness and Naloxone campaign launches in the UK

Jesse Bernard & Laura Garius

Apr 8, 2021

A new national Overdose Awareness and Naloxone campaign – thought to be the first of its kind – has launched…

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

Megan Coakeley

Feb 2, 2021

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

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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;…

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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 & Gender 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.