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…
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We Need More Research into Ketamine Use By Women and Gender-Diverse People
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On 20 June, in honour of World Psychedelics Day, the Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and TalkingDrugs published…
Denmark’s Drug Laws Highlight the Limits of Harm Reduction Policing
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When Denmark made it possible for municipalities to implement drug consumption rooms (DCRs) in 2012, Copenhagen was quick to establish…
“We are here to break this silence”: Activists Disrupt AIDS Conference In Support of Palestine
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Just as the 25th International AIDS Society (IAS) conference was happening in Munich in July, protestors took over the stage…
What Does the Future Hold for UK Cannabis?
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After a recent conversation with Pierre van Weperen of Grow Group PLC and Grow Pharma, his vision of the United…
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…
Doctors Playing God: Life in Slovenia’s Drug Treatment System
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I first enrolled in a methadone program in Slovenia in 1997, after about a year and a half of intense…
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…
Georgian Harm Reduction Under Attack by Foreign Agent Law
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News of Georgia’s new “foreign agent law” has triggered concern and criticism from the country’s civil society organisations, many of…
From Ghent to Rio de Janeiro, Lessons in Social Exclusion
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I’m Natan Hermínio, a young black man from Brazil, born and raised in the favelas, who finds himself having to…
How The British Telegram Drug Market Works
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Telegram is host to a plethora of flourishing drug markets that have become a serious contender to darknet markets, offering…
An Eternal Pilot: Is Portugal’s Decriminalisation System Frozen In Time?
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Portugal has been one of the most lauded and discussed examples of global drug decriminalisation. The model was praised for…