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Hay que reducir los daños, ya que no podemos reducir el consumo
Peter ReuterNexos (México)
Septiembre 2011
Reducir el consumo o la prevalencia no es un buen objetivo de la política antidrogas. Lo que sabemos sobre los efectos reales de esta política obliga a poner como criterio principal la reducción de daños. Debemos concentrarnos sólo en reducir las consecuencias adversas del consumo de drogas, tanto en el aspecto internacional como en los ámbitos nacionales. No es una opción, es lo único que podemos hacer. -
El sistema de tratamiento y apoyo social para usuarios de drogas en los Países Bajos
Repaso de novedades y el ejemplo de Amsterdam
Eberhard Schatz, Katrin Schiffer & John Peter Kools
Este informe del IDPC, escrito en colaboración con la red Correlation, examina los elementos de aplicación de la ley y de implicación comunitaria de la estrategia seguida en los Países Bajos, y aporta los datos disponibles sobre los resultados alcanzados hasta la fecha.
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From the Mountaintops
What the World Can Learn from Drug Policy Change in Switzerland
Joanne CseteOpen Society Foundations
October 2010
Published by the Open Society Foundations, this report looks at how evidence-based services such as heroin treatment, injection rooms, and needle exchange can lower HIV infection rates, improve health outcomes, and lower crime rates.
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If Supply-Oriented Drug Policy is Broken, Can Harm Reduction Help Fix It?
Melding Disciplines and Methods to Advance International Drug Control Policy
Victoria Greenfield & Letizia PaoliUnited States Naval Academy Department of Economics
Working Paper 30
August 2010
Critics of the international drug control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but they also produce unintended adverse consequences. Research suggests their claims have merit. Lasting local reductions in opium production are possible, albeit rare; but, unless global demand shrinks, production will shift elsewhere, with little or no effect on the aggregate supply of heroin and, potentially, at some expense to exiting and newly emerging suppliers.
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Heroin Assisted Treatment
The state of play
Christopher HallamInternational Drug Policy Consortium Briefing Paper
July 2010
This briefing paper explores the question of Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT), examines the growing body of evidence emerging from its clinical use in addiction therapies, and makes recommendations for policy makers.
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The Safer Crack Use Program
Fact sheet
Toronto Public Health
June 2010
This fact sheet explains the Safer Crack Use Program of the Public Health Department of Toronto (Canada). In Toronto, a range of community-based, government and institutional agencies deliver harm reduction services. As with other harm reduction measures, there is no evidence that the distribution of safer crack use kits encourages drug use. Only people who are already using crack cocaine participate in the Safer Crack Use Program.Download the document (PDF)
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What is harm reduction?
A position statement from the International Harm Reduction Association
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA)
May 2010
Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs.
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Efecto de la Aplicación de la Ley Antidrogas en la Violencia Relacionada a las Drogas
Evidencia de una Evaluación Científica
Dan Werb, Greg Rowell, Gordon Guyatt, Thomas Kerr, Julio Montaner, Evan WoodInternational Centre for Science in Drug Policy
Abril de 2010
La violencia es una de las preocupaciones principales en las comunidades en todo el mundo; y las investigaciones en muchos entornos han demostrado la clara relación entre la violencia y el narcotráfico, particularmente en entornos urbanos. Mientras que, tradicionalmente se atribuyó la violencia al efecto de las drogas en los adictos (por ejemplo, psicosis inducidas por droga), cada vez más los traficantes ven a la violencia en el mercado y áreas productoras de drogas, tales como México, como un medio de lograr o mantener una tajada del lucrativo mercado de drogas.
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Harm reduction: evidence, impacts and challenges
Tim Rhodes and Dagmar Hedrich (eds)European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
April 2010
This EMCDDA monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the harm reduction field. The core audience of the monograph comprises policymakers, healthcare professionals working with drug users, as well as the wider interested public.
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The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010
Key Issues for Broadening the Response
International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA)
April 2010
The report provides a region-by-region update of key developments in harm reduction. It also explores several issues key to the response to drug-related harms worldwide, including increasing access to harm reduction in prisons and other places of detention, reaching people who use drugs with diagnosis, treatment and care for viral hepatitis and tuberculosis, preventing overdose-related mortality among people who use drugs, preventing and treating injecting-related bacterial infections, expanding the response to harms related to amphetamine use and addressing the current shortage of funds for harm reduction worldwide.Download the document (outside link)
