Implementation of comprehensive harm reduction policies has achieved impressive reductions in incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Scotland, research publish in PLOS ONE shows.
You can’t solve a public health crisis by locking people up. Jim Pugel knows this. After more than 30 years with the Seattle Police Department, he’s seen first-hand that sending people to prison for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses doesn’t work.
The agreement covers a variety of areas, including transnational organised crime, anti-corruption, criminal justice, and providing alternative development for opium poppy farmers.
While participants largely continue to use crack, the intensity of their use has dropped significantly. They have also benefited from a drastically increased quality of life as result of the housing and access to health care.
Representatives from 15 Tajik civil society groups presented recommendations on how to ensure key populations are the focus of HIV prevention activities to the country coordination mechanism, as it prepares its concept note submissions to the Global Fund.
Argentina's president has endorsed the idea of developing more lenient drug legislation, marking the country's first step towards joining a regional push for alternative solutions to the war on drugs.
Since 11 August 2014 Georgian medical service providers have no longer any obligation to report drug overdose cases to the police, a step forward for harm reduction in the country.
The discussion is part of a series of public hearings, and aims to determine whether the issue will provide the subject of a new bill, taking into consideration a report to be drawn up by Senator Cristovam Buarque.
This video gives a wonderful overview of the failure of the war on drugs which lasts since forty years and sums up the several drug-related alternatives which have been adopted in different European countries but also all around the world.