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View ArticleMarijuana legalisation is an opportunity to modernise international drug...
Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Such actions are in obvious tension with three...
View Articleการบําบัดรักษาโดยมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชนสำหรับผู้ใช้ยาเสพติดและติดยาเสพติดการบรรยา...
การบําบัดรักษาโดยมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชนหมายถึงรูปแบบการรักษาในเชิงบูรณาการโดยเฉพาะต่อผู้ใช้ยาเสพติดและติดยาในชุมชนเพื่อให้เกิดการรักษาอย่างต่อเนื่องตั้งแต่การรักษาในระยะเริ่มต้นถึงการรักษาแบบการถอนพิษยาและ...
View ArticleKey findings from the 2014 IDRS: a survey of people who inject drugs in...
Key findingsHeroin remained the most commonly reported drug of choice.Recent heroin use remained stable and frequency of use increased . The availability of heroin was ‘very easy’ and purity ‘low’.The...
View ArticleDrug injection trends among participants in the Australian Needle and Syringe...
Key findingsNationally, heroin and methamphetamine were the most commonly reported drugs last injected in 2013. Over the period 2009 to 2013, prevalence of heroin injection declined and methamphetamine...
View ArticleTowards a human rights-based drug policy in Tanzania: A public health approach
Now that the Tanzanian drug law is under revision, it is time for the government to move away from the war on drugs and move towards a rights-based approach. Only this way we will be able to curb the...
View ArticleDruglink: UK drug scene - telling the story
This issue of Druglink covers the period 1986- 94, ending with the lead-up to the publication of the first proper UK drug strategy Tackling Drugs Together. It intends to reflect the key developments of...
View ArticleOpioid-related deaths in Australia
From 2007 to 2009, the number of opioid drug deaths identified on the National Coronial Information System increased by 25.0% , with an apparent subsequent decrease in opioid related fatalities in 2010...
View ArticleAssociation of opioid agonist therapy with lower incidence of hepatitis C...
Importance - Injection drug use is the primary mode of transmission for hepatitis C virus infection. Prior studies suggest opioid agonist therapy may reduce the incidence of HCV infection among...
View ArticlePersisting pain in children package: WHO guidelines on the pharmacological...
The brochure Persisting pain in children for policy-makers offers concise information which is extracted from the WHO guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with...
View ArticleCare when there is no cure - Ensuring the right to palliative care in Mexico
Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-life care, Human Rights Watch said in...
View ArticleDrugs: International comparators
This report describes the findings of the Coalition Government’s international comparators study of approaches to drugs misuse and drug addiction. The UK Government has considered a range of policy and...
View ArticleIDPC/Youth RISE case study series: Drug policy, harm reduction and young...
While the United States of America has become infamous for having the largest prison population in the world as a result of its regressive drug policy, the impacts of its drug policy towards young...
View ArticleWorld hepatitis day 2014 summary report
The fourth official World Hepatitis Day took place on the 28th July 2014, co-ordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance and the World Health Organization, and along the theme Hepatitis: Think Again.This...
View ArticleA vision for hepatitis C: Test, treat, cure
Our plan for changeThe Hepatitis C Coalition has established eight calls for tackling hepatitis C. We need everyone to play their part in eliminating the virus.There is an unprecedented opportunity to...
View ArticleWHO information sheet on opioid overdose
Key factsOpioids are psychoactive substances derived from the opium poppy, or their synthetic analogues. Examples are morphine and heroin.Worldwide, an estimated 69 000 people die from opioid overdose...
View ArticleCommunity management of opioid overdose
Opioids are potent respiratory depressants, and overdose is a leading cause of death among people who use them. Worldwide, an estimated 69 000 people die from opioid overdose each year. The number of...
View ArticleDevelopment of legal and human rights guidelines for palliative care in Uganda
Palliative care patients and their families in Uganda, like elsewhere in the world, are very vulnerable; not only physically but also socially, culturally, psychologically and spiritually. Many health...
View ArticleShooting up: Infections among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom 2013
Hepatitis C levels are still high.Among people who inject psychoactive drugs, such as heroin and mephedrone, around two in five are living with hepatitis C; half of these infections are undiagnosed....
View ArticleTake-home emergency naloxone to prevent deaths from heroin overdose
A paradigm shift is occurring in the treatment of heroin overdose. On 5 November the World Health Organization launched guidelines on the community management of heroin and opioid overdose and...
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