This week, UNAIDS met with partners to discuss ‘fast-tracking’ the international HIV response. In the sidelines, Harm Reduction International, is ringing the alarm bells for people who inject drugs, who are being left behind in global efforts to end AIDS by 2030.
Hopeful piece about drug use, harm reduction, and civil society initiatives in Afghanistan, where capacity to help users is lacking and sometimes hindered by the national drug agency.
Felipe Calderón launched the war after being elected in 2006, and since then the US has donated at least $1.5bn – but the biggest costs have been human.
A new study in Lancet Global Health reveals that opioid-dependent individuals in compulsory drug treatment were significantly more likely to relapse to opioid use after release than opioid-dependent individuals receiving methadone in voluntary treatment centres.
After success at a similar drug-checking project in festivals last summer, this pilot project will allow for the collection of evidence and evaluation of the effectiveness of such a scheme in UK nightclubs.
Prof. Alison Ritter argues that the substantial sums of money poured into law enforcement to reduce drug consumption are ineffectual. Rather, we should invest "continuously evaluated, evidence-based policies and programs”.
