This annual national report describes trends in the extent of infections and associated risks and behaviours among people who injected drugs in the United Kingdom in 2013.
These guidelines were written to protect palliative care patients and their families in Uganda from physical, social, cultural, psychological and spiritual harm.
Community management of opioid overdose with naloxone should be supplemented by other measures to reduce the proportion of witnessed opioid overdoses which result in death.
This case study offers an overview of some of the main drug policy issues facing young people in the USA, looking at the impacts of the drug policy and harm reduction on young people.
There is no evidence that tough enforcement of the drug laws on personal possession leads to lower levels of drug use, according to the UK government’s first evidence-based study.
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.
This brochure outlines basic principles, clinical recommendations and health system recommendations for the pharmacological treatment of persisting pain in children with medical illnesses.
Maintenance treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid dependence may be an important strategy to prevent the spread of HCV infection among young injection drug users.
