“Don’t Let Anyone Know”: OST Stigma in Armenia’s Post-Soviet Healthcare System
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As an addiction medicine specialist in Armenia, I often meet patients that, lowering their voices, tell me: “Doctor, please don’t…
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The Decriminalisation Playbook: New UNAIDS Report Lays Out Pathway for HIV Response
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For decades, the global “war on drugs” has been sold as what’s best for public health: by harshly criminalising drug…
Georgia’s Soviet-Era Healthcare System is Putting Doctors in Prison
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Should a psychiatrist face prison for obeying the law? This was the question raised by the case of an anonymous…
The Aesthetics of Drug Prohibition and Harm Reduction
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The Opioid Crisis Lookbook, (OCL) is the provocative title of a magazine started in 2022. Even without reading the magazine…
How International Drug Policy Is Increasingly Fragmented
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For many years, international drug policy seemed stuck in tired rhetoric about a ‘drug-free world’. International discussions repeatedly called for…
UNGASS: 10 Years of Failing International Drug Policy Progress
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The world is losing the global war on drugs, and it is losing it badly. This is the core message…
Dealing With Surveillance in Harm Reduction AI Tools
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have quickly become staple tools of the internet: unprecedented investments in this technology, appearing as chatbots,…
Could Stimulant Replacement Therapy Reduce Cocaine and Stimulant Harms?
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Stimulant deaths around the world are on the rise. In the UK, the number of deaths involving cocaine is 11…
Georgia’s Push for Forced Drug Treatment is Misguided
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The Georgian government has recently proposed forced treatment as an “alternative” for people who were previously engaged in private opioid…
Ukraine’s New Drug Strategy: Harm Reduction, Treatment and More
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On 21 August, the Ukrainian Government published its National Drug Policy Strategy until 2030 and approved its implementation plan for…
UNDP Report Calls for Drug Market Reforms to Achieve Global Development Goals
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The latest report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is challenging governments to rethink their approach to drug…
Open Letter to the WHO Calls for Leadership on Harm Reduction
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This weekend, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) published an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO), calling for…