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Items tagged with heroin assisted treatment

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All parties must see that the drugs war has failed It is clearly expecting too much of Westminster that, when a recently retired cabinet minister calls for mature debate on drugs policy, a mature debat...
At least Bob Ainsworth dares to speak about drugs People often say we have the prohibition of drugs in Britain. But illegal drugs are not prohibited, they are everywhere. What we have is a prohibition...
EMCDDA report presents latest evidence on heroin-assisted treatment for hard-to-treat opioid users A small population of chronic heroin users, once thought to be ‘untreatable’, is now benefiting from a novel type of therapy using medicinal heroin ...
From the Mountaintops Published by the Open Society Foundations, this report looks at how evidence-based services such as heroin treatment, injection rooms, and needle ex...
Heroin Assisted Treatment This briefing paper explores the question of Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT), examines the growing body of evidence emerging from its clinical use in ...
Needle Park remembered The Platzspitz or “Needle Park” in Zürich was one of the world’s most notorious open drug scenes, attracting users from all over Europe. After its ...
Norway contemplating Heroin Assisted Treatment The recent report of the Stoltenberg Committee, set up by the Norwegian Health Minister to review the country’s drug situation, included a recommendat...
The Dutch treatment and social support system for drug users This paper, written in collaboration with the Correlation Network, briefly describes the history and the basic elements of the Dutch drug dependence...
The impact of heroin prescription on heroin markets in Switzerland A program of heroin prescription was introduced in Switzerland in 1994. This initially targeted 1,000 heavily dependent heroin users, most of whom wer...
The State of Harm Reduction in Europe The film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended the first meeting of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) in Marseille, ...
Voters agree heroin scheme, but throw out dope The Swiss look set to approve the government's drugs policy, including the prescription of heroin to addicts, but will reject a plan to decrimina...
What the World Can Learn from Switzerland’s Drug Policy Shift This short film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), a grantee of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program, outlines how the country s...

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