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| Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction | Little is known about the methamphetamine market in the region, but there are strong indications that the situation is deteriorating with substances... |
| At 10, Portugal's Drug Law Draws New Scrutiny | Portugal's move to decriminalize illicit substances—Europe's most liberal drug legislation—turns 10 years old this month amid new scrutiny ... |
| ATS and Harm Reduction | Problematic use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) has become a significant health and social problem in East and Southeast Asia, in particular the ... |
| Beyond Punitive Prohibition | The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibit... |
| Breaking the Silence | This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence ... |
| Bring back the free crack pipes | When you hear that your government is helping addicts shoot up or smoke crack, it's normal to wonder: how can this possibly be good? Until recen... |
| Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent | In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North ... |
| Cannabis debate in Australia | In Australia a vicious debate on cannabis policy started when Alex Wodak, the head of the Sydney drug and alcohol clinic at St Vincent's Hospital... |
| Clubbers should be able to test their ecstasy | Media reports of two deaths at the weekend in the same party venue have once again been accompanied by police suggestions that the drug responsible is... |
| Costa in Amsterdam | The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Neth... |
| Crack Heads and Roots Daughters | An ethnographic study of women and drug use in inner city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, revealed that cannabis is commonly used in conjunction w... |
| Decriminalization of cannabis | An interesting essay discussing the case for decriminalization of cannabis use appeared in the March 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Psychiatry. The ... |
| Distributing safer crack use kits in Canada | A number of public health departments and community organizations in Canada distribute safer crack use kits to people who use crack cocaine. The kits ... |
| Drug Consumption Rooms | The first drug consumption room for opiate-dependent persons in Germany was opened in Frankfort on the Main in December 1994. In March 2003 there were... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,... |
| Drug Policy Reform in Practice | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with th... |
| Drug users to receive crack pipes as part of pilot project | Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to non-injection drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at engaging crack ... |
| Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift | The statement presents the main findings of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of ... |
| Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction | “We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine internation... |
| Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN | The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reuter... |
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