The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association has published a helpful guide on launching or improving existing online harm-reduction services, adaptable to various key populations, including sex workers and people living with HIV.
Sumnal et al. found that in news stories on drug related deaths, presentation of male and older decedents, and heroin compared to ecstasy deaths were associated with higher levels of stigma towards the depicted individual and stories on older decedents yielded greater support for harm reduction.
Felker-Kantor links how through the DARE program the police expanded their reach and ability to define the parameters of the 'war on drugs' and ignored the structural roots of the drug crisis by reinforcing the turn toward blaming the problem on drug users themselves.
The committee recognises the ongoing challenges related to drug use and recommends addressing them through a harm reduction and decriminilatsaion strategy.
Participants convened by the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status outline the harms of criminalisation for marginalised groups and call for urgent action to curb them through legal reforms, further research and funding for civil society.
IDPC addresses the tensions facing the INCB, and the global drug control regime as a whole, in relation to the increasing number of jurisdictions adopting legally regulated markets, and concludes on the need for reform and modernisation.
The Benzo Research Project summarises peer-led research on benzodiazepine use among young people in Britain, and makes recommendations to reduce related harms.
EHRA offers a resource to facilitate the analysis and collation of documented human rights violations, as well as their submission to international accountability bodies.
Celidwen et al. provide a framework to consider more respectful relationships between Western institutions and Indigenous psychedelic medicines, with a view to resist extraction and commercialisation.
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy dedicates a special issue to present some of the latest insights into this harm reduction practice and explore enduring limitations of the scientific literature to date.
Ivsins et al. find overwhelming participant support for these services whilst shedding light on the mediating influence of physical environments, social resources and various structural forces.
