“More Than a Clinic”: Views of People Injecting Drugs on DCRs in the UK
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Often, the discussion of whether drug consumption rooms (DCRs) should open or not are left to policymakers, leading to political…
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HIT Conference 2024: Resisting the State and Keeping Communities Alive
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In a red brick bar, aptly named ‘Revolución de Cuba’, in Liverpool, the speakers of the HIT conference shared drinks…
COP16: How The Global Drug War Drives Harms for Indigenous Peoples and the Environment
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This October was the Conference of the Parties (COP) 16 to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cali, Colombia,…
Politics of Fear, Drugs and Migrants in Spain
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In recent years, migration has become an increasingly contentious issue within European politics. The surge in non-European people entering the…
Global Harm Reduction Growing Yet Still Punitive, According to New Report
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Harm Reduction International’s (HRI) 2024 edition of the Global State of Harm Reduction highlighted how Indigenous people and youth lack…
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…
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…