New Zealand's Housing Minister admits policy of testing housing for traces of methamphetamine is ineffective and calls for more rational and compassionate approaches.
A lack of training and deliberately excessive obstacles to importation and prescription create structural barriers for patients to access palliative care.
According to the study, key interventions to reduce infections are needle and syringe programmes which minimise the use of contaminated equipment, and opioid substitution therapy including methadone, buprenorphine and naloxone.
