This study estimates the prevalence of drug use among inmates in Ireland in order to determine the need for drug treatment and harm reduction services in Irish prisons.
Drug treatment providers should employ contingency management to promote adherence to vaccination programmes but the effectiveness of routine use to achieve long-term behaviour change remains unknown.
The need to review the approach of current drug policies was raised during a recent public hearing of the International American Commission on Human Rights.
This study shows that lack of evidence that tougher enforcement raises prices, and questions the value of supply-side enforcement policies in high-enforcement nations.
This EMCDDA report identifies the most frequent patterns of use and their relation to harm among people who use opioids, powder and crack cocaine, and methamphetamine.
This new harm reduction strategy was launched on 7 February 2014 and supports the principle that people dependent on drugs are patients, not criminals.
