Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Digital words with Constellations panellists
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With the stellar HRI conference Constellations starting tomorrow, TalkingDrugs had the opportunity to catch up with some of the panellists…
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“Billing-centred Care”: How Kapil Nayar Cracked Open the Exploitation of Patients in Drug Treatment Facilities
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As with most industries in capitalist societies, the imperative of profit-making and lack of independent monitoring enables a system of…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [September-October 2021]
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On October 15, in Orenburg, Russia, FSB officers came to the home of two human rights activists – the head…
Book: Dopeworld’s deep dive into Hydra and one of its Russian cyber queen-pins
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Niko Vorobyov has shared with TalkingDrugs an extract of his latest book, Dopeworld: Adventures in the Global Drug Trade. It…
“Undoing Drugs”—Maia Szalavitz’s Profound History of Harm Reduction
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In 1986, HIV/AIDS was burning through New York. The city’s gay population was devastated, and, though it was talked about…
Talking Drugs Updates from Eastern Europe and Central Asia [June 2021]
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1. Russian popular journalist Yuri Dud has been accused of publishing drug propaganda when interviewing rapper Morgenstern and blogger IOneGuy, Meduza…
TalkingDrugs News from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region [June 2021]
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Russian TV presenter Yury Dudy has become a defendant in an administrative case of drug propaganda because of his interviews…
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…
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…
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…
The Other Pandemic
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This new way of living has meant being forced to stay at home, being physically isolated from our loved ones,…
A Chance To Get Their Life Back: Perspectives on Rehab and Recovery in the UK
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In the UK, cuts of £162m to drug and alcohol services in the last three years have led to many…