Showing 199 news articles about Drug policy & policing

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News and information about policies on psychoactive drug use, including education, support for people with drug dependence disorders, the criminalisation of drug use, law enforcement, decriminalisation and legalisation.

Harm reduction

Safe Injection Site for Opioid Users Faces Trump Administration Crackdown

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New York Times
7 February 2019
Harm reduction

8 Lessons Learned at the European Harm Reduction Conference

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Drug Reporter
4 December 2018
Chemsex & recreational drug use

This Is How The Justice System Is Trying To Stop The Chemsex Crimewave

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BuzzFeed
1 November 2018
Harm reduction

California Governor Is 'Missing The Point' With Veto Of Nation's First Safe Injection Site

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Huffington Post
12 October 2018
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Brian Paddick was one of Britain's most senior police officers. Now he's speaking out about his ex-boyfriend dying from a chemsex drug

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BuzzFeed News
1 October 2018
Drug policy & policing

The Crucial Link Between Drug Policy and HIV Rates

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MD Magazine
18 September 2018
Drug policy & policing

New model drug law launched in western Africa

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UNAIDS
14 September 2018
Harm reduction

Safe-injection legal battle brewing in SF — health intervention or drug den?

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San Francisco Chronicle
7 September 2018
Drug policy & policing

Ukraine’s war on drugs drives HIV epidemic

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New Internationalist
24 July 2018
Harm reduction

From Needle Exchanges to Supervised Injection

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Infectious Disease Advisor
27 June 2018
Harm reduction

UK Government accepts drugs fix rooms WILL work - but won't allow Glasgow to open one

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Glasgow Evening Times
4 June 2018
HIV prevention policy

Swiss HIV prevention policy for intravenous drug users is a model for success

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MedicalXpress
30 May 2018
Drug policy & policing

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

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The Guardian
5 December 2017
Harm reduction

How Drug Users Would Solve the Opioid Crisis

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Vice
15 November 2017
Harm reduction

Glasgow's heroin shooting gallery plans rejected by Lord Advocate

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Evening Times
13 November 2017
Harm reduction

Canada: Debate over drug consumption sites might be coming to end

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CBC
6 November 2017
Harm reduction

People Are Dying Because of Ignorance, not Because of Opioids

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Scientific American
18 October 2017
Drug policy & policing

I used to support legalizing all drugs. Then the opioid epidemic happened.

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Vox
25 September 2017
Harm reduction

Heroin addiction: Why we took on this 7-day project

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Cincinnati.com
12 September 2017
People who inject drugs

Seven Days of Heroin: This is what an epidemic looks like

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Cincinnati.com
12 September 2017
Drug policy & policing

Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis

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The Guardian
27 June 2017
People who inject drugs

Covering America's 'testing ground' for responses to drug use, HIV risk

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Columbia Journalism Review
26 June 2017
Drug policy & policing

America's Latest Drug Epidemic Is Weirdly Nonviolent

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Vice
20 June 2017
Drug policy & policing

Heroin's use rising, costing society more than $51 billion

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
9 June 2017