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| 'Paco' Under Scrutiny | Based on two studies carried out in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this report examines the origin, characteristics and impact of the expl... |
| 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... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemog... |
| 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... |
| Crack untamed: treat users, kill the market | Brazil will soon have a special police task force targeting crack-cocaine. Meanwhile, the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais proposes its own drug fighti... |
| 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 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 ... |
| Free crack cocaine pipes enable the saving of lives | In 2008, Safeworks, an outreach program of Alberta Health Services, began a harm reduction program aimed at mitigating the effects of sharing crack ... |
| Free crack pipe service discontinued in Calgary | A decision to stop a clean crack-pipe distribution program has disappointed those working to rehabilitate street addicts. Since 2008, Alberta Health ... |
| In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard | About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across thi... |
| Insite’s next battle: supervised inhalation | Insite’s operators have twice applied for a federal health exemption to allow crack cocaine smokers to use the room – the request was rejected in 20... |
| Opportunities to learn and barriers to change: crack cocaine use in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver | In 2004, a team comprised of researchers and service providers launched the Safer Crack Use, Outreach, Research and Education (SCORE) project in the D... |
| Smoking of crack cocaine as a risk factor for HIV infection among people who use injection drugs | This paper examined whether use of crack cocaine has become a risk factor for HIV infection. Smoking of crack cocaine was found to be an independent r... |
| The fast and the furious | Harm reduction programmes targeting stimulants like cocaine and (meth)amphetamines in several countries have shown positive results. However, these pr... |
| The Safer Crack Use Program | This fact sheet explains the Safer Crack Use Program of the Public Health Department of Toronto (Canada). In Toronto, a range of community-based, gove... |
| Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil | This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they ... |
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